Small Business Website

Here you get a website for a shop, studio, salon or other one-location business: a home page that says what you sell and where, a page for each main service, and a contact page with a form, a map, opening hours and a phone number that dials when tapped. It is meant for owners who want a proper site they can run themselves, without paying agency rates or a monthly retainer.

What a visitor sees first

Most people reach a small business site from a Google search or your Google Business Profile, on a phone, wanting one of three answers: are you open, where are you, and do you sell what they need. The header answers all three with today's hours, your area and a tap-to-call button. Your Google reviews appear as a live widget rather than retyped quotes, so they stay current and anyone can check them at the source.

• Starter covers the essentials: up to five pages, the spam-protected form, the map, and WhatsApp and call buttons.
• Business adds page text written from your notes, the reviews widget, Google Business Profile setup, a sitemap and analytics.
• Premium adds a news section, appointment or callback booking and a Mailchimp newsletter signup, and raises the limit to twenty pages.

Running it once it is live

Holiday closures, a new price list or a seasonal offer take a minute to change from the WordPress dashboard. You can add a page, swap photos and post an update without touching code, and the theme keeps every new page consistent with the rest of the site.

Costs outside the package

Your domain, hosting and business email belong to you and are billed by your own provider. Mailchimp is free for small lists and paid above that, and any premium plugin or stock photo you pick is licensed to your business, not to me.