Shoreham-by-Sea trade website design built for a town that is still changing.
New builds along the harbour, Victorian terraces in the old town, and a customer base that price-checks everything. £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 Shoreham-by-Sea and across Sussex for a £600 one-off build, then £20/month for hosting, unlimited edits and upkeep. Local studios typically quote £750 to £2,500 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 Shoreham-by-Sea
Shoreham sits between two different jobs. The harbour regeneration and the newer developments bring fit-out, flooring, kitchens and snagging work. The old town and Southwick bring the opposite: period terraces needing damp work, replastering, rewires and roofing.
The customers in the middle are commuters, and commuters compare. They will get three quotes, read all three websites on the train, and rule one out before anybody has visited. Being the one with a site that answers the obvious questions, what you do, where you cover, roughly what it costs, how fast you reply, is often the entire difference.
Sitework is based in Sussex, so Shoreham-by-Sea 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 Shoreham-by-Sea
Covering Shoreham, Southwick, Fishersgate and Lancing border. Every site is built around your trade, not a template with the job title swapped out.
Getting found in Shoreham-by-Sea
Shoreham has a genuine advantage: far fewer trades here have a real website than in Brighton, so the organic results are thin. A properly built site with local schema and pages for Shoreham, Southwick and Lancing can surface quickly, because it is competing against Facebook pages and directory listings rather than established local firms.
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 Shoreham-by-Sea
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 Shoreham-by-Sea.
| Option | Upfront | Ongoing | You own it? | Built for your trade? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitework | £600 build | £20/mo, hosting & edits in | Yes | Yes, per trade |
| Shoreham-by-Sea web studio | £750, £2,500 | 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 Shoreham-by-Sea 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 Shoreham-by-Sea
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Get your Shoreham-by-Sea 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.