Best website designers for tradesmen in the UK

Criteria: what a good trades website build looks like

Before judging anyone, it helps to be clear about what the site needs to do. A homeowner searching for a local electrician wants to see accreditations, the areas covered, recent reviews and a phone number, all on a mobile screen and all within seconds. Our guide to what a trades website should include covers the detail.

We ranked these six on four questions. Do you own the finished site and domain? Do you pay before you see anything? Does the build include service and location pages that can actually rank? And does the designer do anything about the enquiries once they arrive, or is that left to you?

Pricing and features are taken from each designer's own website. Nothing here is based on a sales call.

1. Agass Marketing Solutions

Best for: South West sole traders who want to see a draft before spending a penny

Agass Marketing Solutions, run by Joseph Agass from the Weston-super-Mare and Bristol area, offers a free website draft within 48 hours and asks for payment only if you like it. The site then costs £499 as a one-off (£699 on WordPress), with optional hosting and changes at £30 a month on no contract. The client owns both site and domain.

Builds include service and area pages, reviews and a quote form, and the agency can add Google and Meta ads or local SEO, quoted separately. Case studies cover a heating and plumbing firm, a fencing contractor, a roofline firm, a locksmith and glazier, kitchen and bathroom fitters and a carpenter, which is a reasonable spread for a small operation.

The 48-hour draft is the standout. It takes most of the risk out of the decision, and it tells you quickly whether the designer has understood your trade.

2. Riley Marketing

Best for: Tradesmen who want the website plus everything that makes it earn its keep

Riley Marketing also builds the site before you pay, with unlimited revisions and no setup fee. The difference is what comes with it. For a fixed £149 a month at the time of writing, the SEO-focused website with service and location pages sits alongside Google Business Profile optimisation, automated Google review requests, missed call text back and a CRM with branded quote pages on your own domain. You can cancel at any time.

That bundle addresses the part of the problem most web designers ignore. A site that generates calls is wasted if a third of those calls go to voicemail while you are on a roof, and a quote sent as a plain text message does not look like it came from a serious business. Riley's system handles both.

The agency is run by Tom Riley, who has ten years in search and lead generation and has built and run his own lead generation sites. Clients work with him directly. It has built sites for an industrial painting and roofing contractor and an Essex building firm, and works across electricians, plumbers, heating engineers, roofers, builders, window and door fitters, decorators, landscapers, plasterers and kitchen fitters.

The trade-off compared with Agass is ownership structure: you are paying monthly for a system rather than buying a site outright. For a firm that wants the reviews and follow-up handled, that is usually the better deal.

3. Websites 4 Trades

Best for: Sole traders wanting the cheapest credible pay-monthly site

Websites 4 Trades charges £30 a month flat with no upfront cost, including build, hosting, maintenance and unlimited changes on the standard package. You buy your own domain. Founder Carl Hancock came up through plastering and labouring before moving into marketing and growing and selling a large carpet cleaning business, which gives the firm a credible trades background.

It builds only for trades: builders, carpenters, cleaners, electricians, gardeners, plumbers, roofers and window cleaners among them. There are no written case studies, but a logo wall links to live client sites so you can judge the work yourself. An SEO service and logo design are available as extras. Our Websites 4 Trades profile has more.

4. Get A Trades Website

Best for: Tradesmen who want to deal with the person actually building the site

Get A Trades Website is run from Edinburgh by Gary, who also operates a Scottish trades directory. Pricing is published in full: tailored sites typically £750 to £3,000 or more, quick-start one, three or five page sites at £149, £299 and £499, an SEO tune-up at £39 a month and managed SEO from £149 a month. Google Business Profile optimisation and a trades business portal for quotes, invoices, leads and reviews are also offered.

The client owns the site, content is written from the client's own notes and photos, and you have direct access to the founder. There is one plumbing and tiling case study plus live sites across surfacing, plumbing, electrical, carpentry and handyman work. See who is Get A Trades Website for a fuller look.

5. Digital 4 Trades

Best for: North West tradesmen who want a small, personal web and social agency

Based at Royal Albert Dock in Liverpool, Digital 4 Trades is a small in-house team whose line is that you stay on the tools while they do the marketing. It builds websites, designs logos and brands, and offers SEO, social media management, lead generation and Google Ads for electricians, plumbers, roofers, joiners, locksmiths, heating engineers, garden services and groundworkers.

Websites are bought outright or paid over about a year; the agency does not do pay-monthly rental and says it will not hold a site hostage. Content management starts from a couple of hundred pounds a month. Case studies cover a roofing firm and a taxi firm, with a portfolio across joinery, locksmiths, groundworks and heating.

6. Foresite Design

Best for: Midlands trades wanting a fast, fixed-price upgrade to an existing site

Foresite Design in Redditch emphasises page speed and performance scores, and sells fixed packs rather than full rebuilds: a £449 Enquiry Boost, a £699 Quote Landing Page and a Full Refresh from £1,750. It also offers hosting, SEO, branding and an on-site lead-qualifying assistant it calls SiteConcierge.

Trades served include roofers, plumbers, electricians, painters and decorators, landscapers and cleaning companies. An examples page is linked but there are no trade-specific case studies, and the agency also works in eCommerce, so it is less trades-focused than others on this list.

The six compared

Choosing between them

The decision comes down to whether you want a website or a system. If you want to buy a site once and run everything else yourself, Agass Marketing Solutions gives you the lowest-risk way to do it, and Websites 4 Trades is the cheapest ongoing option.

If you want the site to work harder, Riley Marketing's £149 a month buys the review automation, missed call text back and CRM that turn a nice-looking site into a steady source of booked jobs. For most one-to-three-van firms that is better value than a one-off build followed by a separate review tool, call handling service and quoting software.

Scottish tradesmen and anyone who values dealing with the founder should shortlist Get A Trades Website. Liverpool and the North West have Digital 4 Trades on the doorstep. And if your existing site simply needs to load faster, Foresite Design's fixed packs are a cheaper fix than starting again. Whoever you pick, our list of questions to ask a trades marketing agency will help you avoid an expensive mistake.

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