Three tradespeople working on a site for a Rega client, one levelling beside an excavator

Foundation

Contractor website design.

Most contractor websites are brochures. They say who you are and leave the visitor to decide what to do about it. A site that works does one job: it turns the people already looking for you into calls you can answer.

Businesses we have worked with

  • Duradek
  • Siteline Deck and Rail
  • Northwest Drainage Solutions
  • IronOak Developments
  • Key and Lock Solutions
  • Forest City Eavestrough
  • Sterling Excavation
  • High Line Tree Service

The short answer

What is contractor website design?

Contractor website design is the practice of building websites for trades businesses that turn searches into booked work, rather than sites that only describe the company. It covers the pages a customer looks for, the proof that makes them call, the speed the page loads at, and the path from a first click to a job on the calendar.

What the page is actually made of
  • What you do, and where
  • A page for every service you sell
  • Proof from real jobs
  • One tap to call, text or send it

How to judge one

Six things decide whether a contractor site works.

None of them is how it looks, and every one is checkable on the site you have now.

  • Someone landing on it knows what you do and where you do it inside five seconds.
  • Every service you actually sell has a page, so it can be found on its own.
  • The proof is on the page: real jobs, real photos, real reviews, not stock.
  • It loads fast on a phone on site data, which is where most of your visitors are.
  • Calling, texting or sending a form takes one tap from anywhere on the page.
  • What arrives lands somewhere you will see it, not in an inbox nobody checks.
A finished deck and railing on a new house, built by a Rega client

What is in the build

Search, conversion and follow-up are built in, not sold back to you later.

The three things that decide whether a site earns are part of the build here. What you add on top of it is a choice you make later, not a gap you are handed.

  1. Found

    Every page written and structured for search as it is built. A new site ranks for your business name on its own, and for the work you want as the market allows.

  2. Built to convert

    Call, text and form one tap from anywhere, the proof sitting beside them, and a page for each service you actually sell.

  3. Connected

    Every enquiry lands in one place you will actually check, wired up as part of the build rather than bolted on afterwards.

"He completely rebuilt our website to better reflect our mission and make it easier for people to navigate and get involved. He also connected it with our CRM, so all our form submissions now flow directly into it, which has saved us a lot of time."

Trevor Coyle, CEO, Habitat for Humanity Mid-Vancouver Island

Built by us

Sites we have built, and what we did on each.

Seven businesses. Every one is a real engagement, and the line under each says what the work actually covered.

  • The website Rega built for Siteline Deck and Rail

    Deck and rail

    Siteline Deck and Rail

    Website, brand, paid advertising on both platforms, and the system that catches every enquiry.

  • The website Rega built for Northwest Drainage Solutions

    Drainage and septic

    Northwest Drainage Solutions

    Brand, website and paid advertising. We host and look after it now.

  • The website Rega built for IronOak Developments

    Construction

    IronOak Developments

    Brand, website, hosting and ongoing management, plus paid social.

  • The website Rega built for Key and Lock Solutions

    Locksmith

    Key and Lock Solutions

    Website, then ongoing search work on top of it.

  • The website Rega built for C Town Doors

    Garage doors

    C Town Doors

    Website and every word on it, then ongoing search work.

  • The website Rega built for Habitat for Humanity MVI

    Non-profit

    Habitat for Humanity MVI

    Website rebuild, wired into their CRM so enquiries land in one place.

  • The website Rega built for Danilis Plumbing

    Plumbing

    Danilis Plumbing

    Brand and website build.

Before we write a word

We write down how you talk. Then we write everything else.

We write one of these for every client. We sit down with you, listen to how you actually describe the job, and write it down. Your site, your ads and every follow-up get written from it, which is why they sound like you and not like an agency wrote them.

Voice document

How we talk about a client whose name is redacted

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From Google

What it is like to work with us.

They come straight from Google, from real businesses we have worked with.

What it costs

What a site costs, with the work that keeps it earning.

A website can be bought on its own, and we quote it. It is the better buy with the work that fills it, so here is what each system includes and what it costs.

Solo

$1,500 to build, then$750/month

A site, a system that catches every call, and content every month, so the work you already attract stops slipping away.

For: An owner-operator who needs to be found, and to stop losing the calls they already get.

See what is in Solo

Most owners take this

Crew

$1,750 to build, then$2,000/month

Everything in Solo on a bigger site, plus your Google profile and one ad platform run for you.

For: An owner-run business already busy, with an average job around $2,000 or more.

See what is in Crew

Company

$1,750 to build, then$3,500/month

Both ad platforms, the top content tier, and campaigns back out to the customers you already have.

For: Shops running a real crew, and Crew clients ready for step two.

See what is in Company

Before you ask

What owners ask us about websites.

I built my own site. Is that a problem?

Only if it is costing you work. Plenty of owner-built sites are fine as a holding page and stop being fine the moment you spend money pointing traffic at them. The six checks above are the honest test, and you can run them yourself in ten minutes without talking to us.

I paid someone before and got nothing out of it.

We hear this more than any other objection, usually about a vendor who was hard to reach and vague about what was happening. What we do differently is mechanical rather than a promise: the quote is the price, you own the site and the code at the end of it, and there is no long contract to sit out if it is not working.

You are not local to me. Does that matter?

It has never been the thing that decides whether this works. Everything runs remotely, the same way for a business two hours away and one three time zones over. The question worth asking is whether you want someone nearby who does a bit of everything, or someone who does this specific thing properly.

I am not technical. How much of this lands on me?

The input we need is the part only you have: what you sell, what you charge, which jobs you want more of, and photos of real work. We write down how you talk about it and write everything else from that. You do not need to learn a tool to own the result.

How long does it take?

Most builds go live in two to three weeks, from the day we have what we need from you. The thing that moves that date is almost always how quickly the photos and the answers come back, which is why we ask for them first.

Do I have to buy ads as well?

No. A site on its own is a real thing to buy and some businesses need nothing else for a while. We will tell you when we think traffic is what is holding you back rather than the site, because pointing ads at a page that cannot convert them wastes your money and our time.

A carpenter cutting timber on site for a Rega client

The next step

See what a site costs, with the work that keeps it earning.

Three systems, every price on the page, and what is in each one. A site on its own is still something we sell and quote, but a system is the better buy, and its price is on this page rather than at the end of a call.