For Contracting & the Trades
Your work holds up in weather. Your website should hold up too.
People don’t hire a contractor from a beautiful website. They hire because the website made it easy to see the proof, understand the process, and pick up the phone. That’s the whole job — and most contractor sites still fumble it.
What the work needs
Three things a trades site must do.
01
The five-minute proof
Homeowners check you out between dinner and bedtime. The site leads with the work you’re proudest of and the process behind it — no hunting, no tiny galleries, no “contact us for photos.”
02
The scope conversation, earlier
An honest estimate page helps serious people arrive pre-scoped — and filters the “just wondering what a deck costs” messages before they cost you an afternoon. This studio uses one; you’re welcome to try it.
03
Findable in the neighborhood
Local search setup done properly: page titles, descriptions, and structure that give “plumber near me” a fighting chance of finding you instead of the outfit with the ugly site and better metadata.
The proof
A concept, honestly labeled.
Meridian — concept site for a general contractor. Concept work, not a claimed client.
- Before-and-after galleries that load fast and label themselves
- Real process steps, not “quality craftsmanship” filler
- Numbers up front, so the estimate conversation starts closer
The honest part
What this studio won’t promise.
Not that you’ll rank first — nobody honest can promise that. Not that a website replaces word of mouth, because it doesn’t. What it does is make the word of mouth easier to act on: the neighbor who heard about you can find you, see the work, and call with half the doubt gone. If someone promises the moon for $99 a month, get the moon in writing.
See what your current site is doing wrong. Free.
Send your existing site. It comes back marked in red pencil — what’s working, what isn’t, what to fix first. No charge, no pitch attached.
A real site for this work starts at $1,250 — and every number is on the Estimate Desk before you ever say hello.