Arthur (913) 712-6630
Websites for local businesses

You see the homepage before you pay for it.

Tell me what you do and where you do it. I build the homepage. Then you look at it and decide — keep it, change it, or walk away and owe me nothing.

Nothing up front Live inside a week On your own domain

Yours is not in there.

Then let me build the one that is. Tell me what you do and I will put a sample together for your trade this week, before you have committed to anything at all.

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What most have Yours

These are examples, not your business. Send me a text, ring (913) 712-6630 or send me an email, tell me what you do, and the next one you look at will have your name on it.

Twenty samples, already built

Every trade gets a different page, not a different colour.

These are the twenty I get asked for most, and the ones least likely to have a website already. They exist before anybody asks. Look at what changes between them: it is never just the paint.

These are built by me for this page, not client work — I am starting out and I am not going to dress a demo up as somebody’s business. If your trade is one of the twenty, that is roughly where yours would begin. If it is not, say so and I will build the next one.

What actually happens

You get about forty seconds, and most of them are spent waiting.

It is twenty to nine on a Tuesday and there is water coming through a ceiling in Mount Pleasant. Here is what the next forty seconds look like from the other end — the end you never get to see.

0:00
He types plumber near me into his phone. He does not type your name. He has never heard of you.
0:04
Google shows him three businesses on a map. Three, not thirty. Most of the trade is lost right here. If you are not one of those three, nothing else on your website matters tonight, and you will never learn this happened.
0:09
He taps the first one. The screen goes white while the page loads.
0:16
Still white. Seven seconds is all a loading page gets. He presses back and taps the next name down. That business paid for a website and got nothing for it.
0:22
Your page opens. He is looking for exactly one thing: a number. Not a menu, not a gallery, not fifteen years of proud history.
0:31
The text is the size of ants, the page slides sideways, and the number is part of a picture. He cannot press it, so he does not. He goes back to the map and rings the third one instead. You were forty seconds and one button away from the job.
0:38
Or the number is a button, sitting where his thumb already is. He presses it and your phone rings. That is the whole job of a website for a trade. Everything else on it is decoration around this one moment.
The whole point

Every choice on the sites I build is aimed at those forty seconds.

Not at looking clever, not at winning an award. At being the one he can reach while the water is still coming through. If you want to know how your own site does in that minute, ring me and I will look at it with you — that costs nothing and takes about five.

How it goes

Four steps, and you pay at the fourth.

The order matters more than anything else on this page. You have already seen the thing before any money is discussed.

1

Ten minutes on the phone

What you do, who you do it for, which jobs you actually want more of, and where you work. That is the whole interview.

Ten minutes
2

I build the homepage

A real page, on a real address you can open on your phone and show somebody. Not a drawing, not a slide.

Two or three days
3

You tell me what is wrong with it

Wrong photos, wrong words, wrong colour, wrong altogether. I change it, or you walk away and it has cost you nothing.

Your call
4

The rest of it goes live

Remaining pages, your Google Business Profile tidied up, the whole thing on your own domain in your own name. Now you pay.

Within the week
Proof, of the only sort I have

I am not going to show you a wall of logos.

I am starting out and I would rather say so than invent five years of happy clients. What I can do is hand you something I built on my own, in full, and let you use it right now.

Computer Skills

An app that teaches an older person to use their phone or their PC by walking them through a practice copy of their own screen. Every lesson written, drawn and tested by me. It is the standard of care you would be buying.

Go and have a look
Lessons written
52
Screens rebuilt from scratch
11 kinds
Checked against real hardware
iPhone & PC
Text contrast, measured
4.9:1
Accounts you must create
None
The same four faults, shown

This is what those four answers look like on a screen.

Left is how it usually is. Right is what I would do about it. Nothing to press — the difference is meant to be obvious without being operated.

Usually

… committed to excellence in all that we do. Our team of dedicated professionals. Contact us today.

Tel: 555 0148 2210

Instead
Call now

555 0148

One press. It dials.

The number Typed as text halfway down a page, it has to be copied out. As a button it dials, and the person calling never had to think about it.

Usually
Serving the greater metropolitan area with pride since 1998 and continuing to deliver quality
Instead
Charleston, Mount Pleasant and Summerville.

On a phone A site built for a desktop makes a phone scroll sideways to read one sentence. Most of the people looking for you are holding a phone in a yard.

Usually

Welcome to our website

We are pleased you have chosen to visit us online.

Instead

Burst pipe in Mount Pleasant?

Out today if you ring before 3pm.

The first line “Welcome to our website” tells a person nothing they did not already know. Say what you do and where, and they have their answer before they scroll.

Usually

Home   About   Services   Gallery   Testimonials   Blog   FAQ   Contact

Eight places to look for one phone number.

Instead

What I do  ·  What it costs  ·  Call me

Three, and one of them is the point.

How much there is Eight menu items is eight decisions before anybody rings you. A small business does not need a website with a table of contents.

What it costs

Two ways to pay, both said out loud.

Anybody who will not put a number on a page is planning to work out what you can afford after they have met you. So here are both of mine. Which one suits you comes down to a single question: would you rather never think about the website again, or never owe anybody a bill?

Most people start here $150a month

Nothing down, and nothing to arrange. One bill covers the site, the hosting, the domain and any change you ask for, for as long as you keep it. No setup, no invoice from anybody else, and if the work dries up you stop paying.

Homepage built first, for nothing, before you decide anything

The site itself

Written about your actual work — no filler about passion and excellence
Your own photos, or I come out and take them
Reads properly on a phone, which is where nearly every customer will see it
Loads fast on a weak signal, because half your customers are standing in a yard

Getting found

Your number as a button that dials on one press
Google Business Profile filled in and matched to the site
Every town you cover named on the page, so the right people find you
Your best reviews on the page, in your customers’ own words

After it is live

Changes included — ring me, do not email a ticket
Hosting, the domain and the security certificate, all in the price
If it breaks, I fix it the same day

Cancel in any month — no notice, no fee, no conversation about why. The domain is in your name from the first day, so if you go, you go with it and your customers still find you.

Or own it outright $1,200once

One payment, then nothing. The same four or five page site, built the same way, handed over and yours outright. Take this one if you have the money now and would rather not owe anybody anything after Friday.

The site itself

Everything in the monthly, built the same way
Four or five pages: what you do, who you are, the work, how to reach you
A page for each main service, so each one can be found on its own

Paying

Half when you approve the homepage, half when it goes live
Nothing owed at all if the homepage is not what you wanted
No contract and nothing to cancel — there is no monthly to stop

Afterwards

Hosting is roughly $15 a month, paid to the host, not to me
The files are yours — you can hand them to anybody
Later changes are quoted before I touch anything
I show you how to change your own hours and phone number

More pages, a booking form or a shop cost more. You get that number before I start, not after.

Eight months in, the monthly passes the one-off. I would rather say that here than have you work it out in month nine. What the difference buys after that is the hosting, the domain, the same-day fixes and every change you ring me about. So if you already know you will never ring me, buy it outright and you come out ahead — I will still build you the same site either way. The only thing that changes is who is holding the bill.

Before you write

Things I am not the right person for.

Cheaper to say it here than to waste an afternoon each finding out.

A shop with a thousand products

Small shops are fine. A full catalogue with stock control wants somebody who does only that.

An app for a phone

I build websites. A real App Store app is a different job and a different bill.

“Get me to number one on Google”

I will set the foundations properly and tidy your profile. Anybody promising you the top spot is guessing.

A rebuild of something huge

If you already have forty pages and a booking system, you want an agency with a team, not one person.

Worst case, you get a free homepage out of it.

Tell me the trade and the town. If I cannot make something you would be glad to hand out, I will say so and we will both get on with our day.

Arthurnvss@outlook.com — I answer the phone. If I miss you, I ring back the same day.

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