Website design · Sunderland, Washington and Houghton

Website Designers Sunderland Fast, mobile-first sites.

Most Sunderland businesses we talk to do not need a brand film. They need the phone to ring. We are website designers for trades, family firms and local services across Sunderland, Washington and Houghton: sites where the number is the hero, the reviews carry the weight, and the quote form actually gets filled in. Quoted in 24 hours.

The five-second testIllustrative
5.0seconds
  1. What you do and where
  2. Tap to call
  3. A real review
  4. A rough price
  5. A quote form that works
from £150One page, phone first
1 weekTypical time to live, one page
9Client builds on show
Client builds on the site

01Why us

Built for Sunderland businesses

Sunderland has always made and fixed things. The websites that work here are not the clever ones. They work like a good van sign: say what you do, show that people trust you, make the call one tap away.

01

Phone first, on the first screen

The number is a button before anyone scrolls. Trades and local services get most of their work by phone, so the site is built around the call, not around a slideshow.

02

Reviews that update themselves

Your Google rating and count pulled onto the page and kept current. No copying and pasting testimonials every month.

03

Fixed price, quoted in 24 hours

Five fields, one number back within a working day. The one-page build at £150 exists because a lot of Sunderland businesses need exactly that.

04

Tested on a phone, on mobile data

Every build is checked on a real handset on a mobile connection before you see it. If it is slow at Seaburn on a Saturday, it is not finished.

05

Yours to edit after handover

Prices, hours and photos are yours to change. Domain in your name, site on a platform you can log into, and a walkthrough so you never need to call us for a price change.

Next

Get a quote in 24 hours

One fixed number, in writing, within a working day.

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What a site is for

The phone is the only metric that matters.

A trades site is not judged by how it looks in a portfolio. It is judged by whether it made the phone ring on a Tuesday. Every call and form is tracked, so you know which page and which town it came from and what to do more of.

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By phone0%
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    A trades site is judged by one thing: the phone. Every call and form is tracked, so you know which page and which town it came from.

    02Every build

    What's included

    Whatever tier you pick, these are in. No add-ons for the basics.

    • Mobile-first designDesigned on the phone screen first, then widened. Most of your customers will never see the desktop version.
    • Fast load timesCompressed images, no bloated plugins, tested on 4G. Under three seconds or we keep working.
    • SEO-ready from day oneTitles, headings, local schema and your Google Business Profile matched to the site. On Small business and up, full SEO setup is included.
    • Click-to-call and a working formBoth tested from a phone to your inbox before launch. A form that goes to junk is worse than no form.
    • Your areas namedSunderland, Washington, Houghton-le-Spring, Hetton, the coast: wherever you work goes on the page and on your Google profile, matched exactly.
    • Handover walkthroughA short session on your own site so you can change hours, prices and photos yourself. Recorded, so you can replay it in six months.

    03Pricing

    Pricing

    Fixed prices, not a bracket. The same numbers as our quote page, so nothing changes when you get there.

    One pageMost chosen
    from £150one-off
    Everything a trades business needs on one screen. Live in about a week.
    Basic site
    from £500one-off
    2–4 pages, mobile-first, live in about two weeks.
    Small business
    from £1,200one-off
    5–8 pages with SEO included as we build.
    E-commerce
    from £2,000one-off
    Catalogue, checkout, payments, product-level SEO.

    One-off build costs, not monthly fees, and the same figures as our quote page. Want it to keep improving after launch? SEO + Fixes + Growth is £500 a month and includes on-page work, four blogs and two new pages every month. Optional, never a condition of the build.

    04Proof

    Work we've done nearby

    Builds from across Wearside, Tyneside and the North East, all live. The trades sites are the ones to click first if you are a trade: they show the phone-first, reviews-forward pattern this page is describing.

    The Smart Plus Heating website
    Smart Plus HeatingTrades site on Squarespace. Number first, reviews carry the weight.
    Trades · Squarespace
    The Shoreline Vehicle Design website
    Shoreline Vehicle DesignSpecialist vehicle business. A quote form built to be finished, not abandoned.
    Quote-led
    The Senttr website
    SenttrA product site that explains something new in one screen.
    Product

    Smart Plus Heating and Gutters.co.uk are both trades builds on the site: heating and guttering businesses whose customers search for the job, not the company name, and whose sites are built to rank for exactly that.

    05Questions

    FAQs

    01I am a sole trader. Do I really need more than one page?

    Usually not. A one-page site at £150 with your services, areas, reviews and a tap-to-call number does the job for most trades. If you later want a page per service so each ranks on its own, we add them.

    02Can you make the reviews show automatically?

    Yes. Your Google rating and count are pulled onto the page and stay current, so you are not copying and pasting reviews every month.

    03How fast can it be live?

    A one-page site in about a week from the day we have your words and photos. A basic site in about two weeks. Small business builds around four.

    04What if my photos are not great?

    We will tell you. Phone photos in daylight of finished work usually beat stock images. If you need a photographer we can point you to one, but most trades sites do fine without.

    05Do you cover Washington and Houghton?

    Yes, and Hetton, Seaham and the coast. Where you work goes on the page and on your Google Business Profile. Most builds run over email and a shared link, so distance only matters for what we write on the site.

    06Do I own the site?

    Yes. Domain in your name, site on a platform you can log into, and a walkthrough so you can change prices, hours and photos yourself.

    Next step

    Quoted in 24 hours for a Sunderland website.

    Five fields, no obligation, one fixed number back within a working day. Or call and we will talk it through.

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