Custom website design
Web design for service businesses
Most service business websites lose leads in the first ten seconds. The fixes are not about prettier graphics. They are structural. The guides here walk through the design decisions that decide whether your phone rings.
Web design for a service business is not the same problem as web design for a software product or an online store. The traffic is lower. The job is bigger. The buyer is a homeowner or a procurement lead making a decision they will defend to a partner or a board, often after looking at five competing sites in one sitting.
The design choices that survive that kind of scrutiny are specific. Positioning that filters out price shoppers. Real proof points on the homepage instead of stock photography. A phone number visible on every page, big enough to tap on a phone. Page speeds that hold up on mobile data. Pricing transparency tasteful enough to qualify a buyer without turning your work into a commodity.
The guides here cover how to get those choices right.
Guides on this topic
8 guides, more on the way.
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How much does a website cost for a service business?
Honest pricing ranges, what you get at each tier, and the hidden costs nobody warns you about.
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7 signs your website is actively costing you leads
Most service business websites lose leads in the first 10 seconds. Here's exactly how, and what to do about it.
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Custom website vs. template: which does your business actually need?
When a template is fine, when it's quietly holding you back, and how to tell the difference.
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Modern website design examples (and what 'modern' actually means in 2026)
The aesthetics, the technical foundation, and the specific design moves that separate a real 2026 site from a SquareSpace template that copied a 2018 trend.
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Service business website examples that actually convert
What separates the sites that book work from the sites that bleed leads. Eight structural patterns drawn from service-business sites that are doing it right.
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Website redesign RFP template (with the questions that actually matter)
What to include, how to structure it, and the scoring criteria that surface real partners instead of generic agency pitches.
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Average cost of a website redesign (2026)
Why redesigns cost differently from new builds, what's actually in scope, and the hidden costs that wreck budgets.
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What should a small business website contain?
The pages every small business needs, the pages most websites skip, and the pages that look optional but quietly cost leads when missing.
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