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Reading, Berkshire

Website design for Reading trades and service businesses

Reading is a crowded market — whatever your trade, a customer searching for it here gets pages of choices. The businesses that win the click look established, load fast and make calling effortless.

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Local work

We know the Reading market

Reading is in our portfolio directly: a full concept build for a plumbing and heating firm, where the phone number is the hero and the whole page is shaped around the 2am burst pipe rather than the browser. It is a complete working demo — open it and judge the standard your own rebuild would meet.

Concept website design for Dawson & Sons Plumbing Concept

Plumber · Reading

Dawson & Sons Plumbing

An emergency-first plumbing site where the phone number is the hero. Built for the 2am burst-pipe visitor: one action, instant trust, nothing in the way.

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Whatever your trade, we build for it

Every site is designed around how your trade actually wins work — not poured into a generic template.

Straight answers

Questions from Reading businesses

Do you work with businesses anywhere in Reading?

Yes — central Reading and the whole surrounding area: Woodley, Earley, Tilehurst, Caversham, Calcot and out to the villages. We’re a UK-based studio and everything is handled by phone, email and screen-share, so there’s no callout radius.

Will my website mention the Reading areas I cover?

Naturally, yes — your service area is written into the site properly (not stuffed into every sentence, which search engines now punish). If you serve specific neighbourhoods or nearby towns, the site says so where it counts.

How much does a website cost in Reading?

The same as everywhere we work: plans from £49 a month plus VAT with no setup fee, including the build, hosting, SSL, backups and content updates. We rebuild your homepage free first, so you judge the work before paying anything.

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Questions worth answering first

  • What a website costs

    The honest price ranges for a trade business website in 2026 — from £10 a month DIY to £5,000 agency builds — and the hidden costs each route doesn’t mention.

  • Checkatrade alternatives

    Directories, Google, your own site or word of mouth: the five routes to trade work that are not Checkatrade, what each costs, and which ones compound.

  • DIY builder vs professional

    Nobody tells you when a homemade website puts them off; they call the next number. The five ways it happens, and the three-question test for whether it is happening to you.

  • What a trade site needs

    The checklist we build every trade website against: seven essentials that win enquiries, the trust signals that decide jobs, and the clutter to leave out.

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