Brighton and Hove trade website design in a city that notices bad design.
Brighton customers look at a lot of good websites. Yours is being judged against them, whether you like it or not. £600 to build, then £20/month. £600 to build, then £20/month for hosting, edits and upkeep.
The map pack needs a Google Business Profile. Everything below it needs a website. You want both.
Sitework builds hand-coded, mobile-first websites for tradespeople in Brighton and Hove and across Sussex for a £600 one-off build, then £20/month for hosting, unlimited edits and upkeep. Local studios typically quote £900 to £4,000 for a comparable site, plus separate hosting and edit fees. You see free mockups of your business before you pay a penny.
What actually sells work in Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove is Victorian and Regency terraces, basement conversions and a very large rented sector. That means landlords and letting agents are a real slice of the customer base, and they buy differently from homeowners: repeat work, compliance deadlines, EICRs, gas safety, quick turnarounds.
It is also a city stuffed with designers, agencies and people who work on the web for a living. The bar for what looks legitimate is simply higher here than it is twenty miles inland. A stretched template with a stock photo of someone else's van reads as amateur to a Brighton customer in about two seconds, and you never hear about the enquiry you did not get.
Sitework is based in Sussex, so Brighton and Hove is not a pin on a map to us. If you would rather sit down and go through it in person, that is an option here in a way it is not for a studio two hundred miles away.
Trades we build for around Brighton and Hove
Covering Brighton, Hove, Portslade and Hangleton. Every site is built around your trade, not a template with the job title swapped out.
Getting found in Brighton and Hove
Brighton is the most competitive local search market in Sussex, and the map pack is dominated by firms with years of reviews behind them. Getting in is a grind, not a switch. What moves it: a verified profile with real photos, a site that loads fast on 4G, pages for the specific jobs you want (EICR, consumer unit upgrade, rewire) rather than one page called Services, and reviews collected steadily instead of in one suspicious burst.
Every site ships with local business schema, clean titles, a sitemap and fast mobile loading, and we set the groundwork so your Google Business Profile and your website tell Google the same story. If you want the ongoing version, that is the local SEO plan, and it is optional.
What a website costs in Brighton and Hove
A trade website from Sitework is a one-off £600 to build, then £20/month. Here is how that sits against the other ways of getting one in Brighton and Hove.
| Option | Upfront | Ongoing | You own it? | Built for your trade? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitework | £600 build | £20/mo, hosting & edits in | Yes | Yes, per trade |
| Brighton and Hove web studio | £900, £4,000 | Hosting extra, edits billed | Yes | Usually general small business |
| Directory (Checkatrade etc.) | Setup fee | ~£100+/mo plus lead fees | No, it's their platform | Shared listing, not a site |
| DIY builder (Wix, Squarespace) | £0, £150 | £14, £40/mo | Yes | Only if you build & maintain it |
Local studio figures are typical published ranges for the Brighton and Hove area, not fixed quotes, and vary by page count and features. Directory costs vary by trade and area. Sitework has no lead fees: hosting, SSL, backups and unlimited small edits are included in the £20/month.
Website design in Brighton and Hove
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Get your Brighton and Hove site live for £600
See free mockups of your actual business before you pay a penny. A one-off £600 to build, then £20/month for hosting, edits and upkeep, with no lead fees.