Websites for service businesses across Essexhello@donroddigital.co.uk
Web design for Essex service businesses
Websites for service businesses across Essex. Yours is designed and built before you’re asked to pay for anything.
Websites from £499. You see yours before you decide anything.
BUILT BEFORE YOU PAY
From £499
Quoted before any work starts
Days
From start to live
Yours
You own it outright
Essex
Local, and staying that way
Nobody rings to tell you they chose someone else. It just happens.
Customers who find you on Google Maps still want to see your work before they ring. With nothing to look at, the safe choice is the business that has a site.
Twenty years of work and no website can read as less established than a competitor who started last year. The quality of the work isn’t the problem. The evidence is.
Most people don’t call two businesses. They call the one that answered their questions first.
Your website should look like your work, not like every other site in your trade. That means your own photos, your own reviews, and your services described the way you’d describe them on the phone.
Real jobs you’ve done, so the site looks like your work rather than someone else’s.
The ones customers already left, put where new customers will actually see them.
Which is where most people will open it, usually while standing in the room they want fixing.
Set up so Google understands who you are, what you do and the towns you cover.
Most will open it here
So it’s designed on a phone first, then widened out.
Concept builds
These are concepts, not clients. I built them so you can see the range before you decide, rather than taking my word for it. Every one is a real, working site you can open and scroll.
Real client work will replace these as sites go live. Nothing here is borrowed and no invented business is presented as a customer. If you got an email from me, the site I built for you is already built and waiting at a private link, and that link is in the message.
Everyone starts with the same thing: a website. The rest gets added when you actually want it, not bundled in to pad the price.
Nothing is paid until the site is built, changed to suit you, and you have said yes. There is no deposit to lose.
A complete site built from scratch around your business. Design, build, and getting it live on your own domain.
Already have a site that’s dated, slow, or doesn’t work on phones? Same process, built around what you’ve already got. Anything worth keeping comes with it.
Add on when you need it
Set up so you show up when someone searches for your trade in your town, and so Google knows exactly what you do and where you do it.
A simple password-protected editor where you change your own text, prices, opening hours and photos, from your phone.
Customers book a slot or an appointment themselves, with confirmation emails and a reminder the day before.
Your star rating and review count pulled straight from your Google listing, so it updates itself as new reviews land.
Your site stays online, backed up and looked after, with up to half an hour of small changes each month. Text, photos, prices, opening hours.
The part worth checking
Most website offers aimed at trades are monthly. That can work out fine, but it is worth knowing what you are buying: on a lot of them the website is switched off when you stop paying, and the years of reviews and photos on it go with it.
Yours is bought once and belongs to you, on your own domain. If you never speak to me again it carries on working. Hosting and care is there if you want it, and the site stays yours whether you take it or not.
£45 to £99
a month, typical trade offer
From £499
once, fixed before I start
Monthly figures are the published prices of well known UK trade website services, checked September 2026.
Six steps, and you are only really needed for two of them.
A short conversation about what you do, who you work for, and what you want the site to bring in. No jargon, no forms to fill in.
Deciding what the site needs to say and in what order, so it answers the questions your customers actually ask.
Built around your photos, your reviews and your trade. You see it as a real working website, not a slide deck.
You tell me what’s wrong. Wording, photos, order, colours. This is the part most people are never offered.
Live on your own domain, working on every device, set up to be found.
It stays looked after. Small changes are included in the care plan, and anything bigger gets quoted before it starts.
Why Donrod Digital
The site is built before you’re asked for anything. If you don’t want it, that’s genuinely fine.
You get the number before I start anything, and it doesn’t move. No package tiers, no renewal that quietly doubles, nothing added at the end.
The site is yours, on your domain. You’re not renting it, and you can take it elsewhere whenever you like.
Essex based and working across the county. Same customers, same high streets, same weather.
No account manager, no ticket system, no handover to somebody you’ve never spoken to.
You’re dealing with one person, start to finish. The one who designs it, builds it, and answers the email when something needs changing.
I’m Greg.
I build websites for service businesses across Essex.
Most small businesses get the same two options: an agency that costs thousands and takes months, or a cheap template that looks like a cheap template. I wanted to offer a third one. A properly built site, at a price a local business can justify, from someone you can actually get hold of.
More about how I workIf yours isn’t here, email me and I’ll answer it properly.
Builds start at £499, which covers the design, the build, and getting it live on your own domain. You get the exact figure before any work starts, and it doesn’t change afterwards.
Not for the build. Hosting and care, and extras like an editor, online booking or a live Google rating, are optional and quoted separately. If you don’t want any of them, you don’t pay for any of them.
The first version is usually ready within a few days. After that it depends how quickly you come back with changes. Most sites are live within a couple of weeks.
Yes. It’s yours, on your own domain. If you ever want to move it elsewhere or have someone else work on it, you can.
Yes. If what you’ve got is dated, slow, or doesn’t work properly on a phone, the process is the same. Anything worth keeping gets carried over.
Yes. Hosting and care covers up to half an hour of small changes a month, so text, photos, prices, opening hours, that sort of thing. You email and it gets done, with no ticket system and no support portal. Anything larger than that gets a price before it starts, so nothing turns up as a surprise. And if you’d rather not wait on me at all, the built-in editor lets you make those changes yourself in a couple of minutes.
If you want to. There’s an option that adds a simple editor where you can change your text, prices, opening hours and photos yourself, from your phone. Plenty of people would rather just email me, and that’s fine too.
Once you’ve seen it, asked your questions, had the changes made and decided you want it. Not before. By that point you know exactly what you’re buying, and the only thing left to do is put it on your domain.
You can, and for some businesses they’re a perfectly good option. They hand you the tools. Most people who come to me don’t want to spend their evenings learning a platform, laying out pages and writing their own copy, and would rather have it built properly by someone they can email when something needs changing.
Because I’d already built your website. I look for local businesses whose website is missing, broken, or just a booking page on somebody else’s platform, build them a proper one from their own photos and reviews, and send them the link. It seemed more useful than describing what’s possible. There’s no obligation at all. If it’s not for you, ignore the email and nothing happens.
That’s genuinely fine. The site was built on spec, the way an estate agent puts a brochure together before the seller has signed anything. It sits at an unlisted address only you and I know, and if you’d rather it didn’t exist, I take it down and that’s the end of it.
Send a message and you’ll get a real reply from me, usually the same day. If you’d rather just see what your site would look like first, ask for a free review and I’ll put one together.
Working across Essex
