Chichester trade website design for heritage work and careful clients.
Conservation areas, listed buildings and customers who need to see credentials before they call. £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 Chichester 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 Chichester
Chichester carries a lot of protected building stock: conservation areas, Grade II listings, flint walls, sash windows and lime-plastered walls that cannot be patched with modern materials. Around it sit the Witterings, Bosham and Selsey, affluent, largely older, and heavy on second homes and holiday lets.
That gives you a rare thing: a genuine specialism that customers search for by name. Somebody with a listed cottage is not searching "builder Chichester", they are searching for lime mortar, sash window repair or a roofer who has worked in a conservation area. If your site never uses those words, you are invisible to the highest-value customers on your doorstep.
Sitework is based in Sussex, so Chichester 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 Chichester
Covering Chichester, the Witterings, Bosham and Selsey. Every site is built around your trade, not a template with the job title swapped out.
Getting found in Chichester
Heritage terms are the opportunity here. Volume is low, competition is close to nothing, and intent is extremely high. A page about sash window repair in a Chichester conservation area will never bring a hundred visitors a month, but the handful it brings are already sold on needing a specialist, which is the only kind of traffic that matters.
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 Chichester
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 Chichester.
| Option | Upfront | Ongoing | You own it? | Built for your trade? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitework | £600 build | £20/mo, hosting & edits in | Yes | Yes, per trade |
| Chichester 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 Chichester 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 Chichester
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Get your Chichester 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.