An electrician website built to get the call, not the compliment.

Six to nine weeks for a typical electrical company website, from discovery to launch. The variable is rarely us: it is how quickly content, photographs and sign-off come back from your side, so we schedule those as dated tasks rather than open requests. Larger builds with many service areas, a commercial section or a booking integration run longer, and we give you the honest range at proposal stage rather than the optimistic one.

Not when the migration is done properly, and protecting what you have is part of the build rather than an afterthought. Every existing page is inventoried, mapped to its new address and redirected, titles and structured data are carried across, and we monitor Search Console daily through the launch window. Because the new build is faster — against an 8.8-second industry average — most clients see visibility improve after launch rather than dip. Where a page has to disappear, we tell you first and send its traffic somewhere sensible.

Both are good, and the honest answer depends on your office rather than on fashion. WordPress suits teams who want maximum flexibility, many integrations and a large pool of people who can maintain it. Webflow suits teams who want a fast, clean site with less maintenance and a visual editor their office manager can use confidently. We build custom on either, never on a marketplace theme, and we recommend one in discovery with the trade-offs written down so the choice is yours.

A fixed project price quoted after discovery, so you are buying a scope rather than an hourly gamble, plus an optional monthly plan for hosting, maintenance and small changes. The range depends on how many service and area pages you need, whether photography is included, and whether the website has to talk to your scheduling software. We will also tell you plainly when your current website is worth repairing instead, and quote that smaller job honestly.

Yes, and we treat that as a design requirement. Text, photographs, prices, service areas, team members and reviews are all editable from a clearly labelled CMS, and adding a new service page means filling in a template rather than commissioning a page. You get a recorded training session, a short written guide, and a month of adjustments after launch while your team gets comfortable.

You need real ones for the areas that matter commercially, not a hundred cloned pages with the town name swapped. A useful area page shows work you have done there, mentions the housing stock or local supply quirks your electricians actually encounter, names the response time you can honour, and gives one clear way to book. We build the first set for your core radius and add to it as the work justifies it.

It matters more, not less. A referral almost always checks the website before calling, and that visit is where a recommendation is confirmed or quietly dropped. Licence and insurance proof, real job photographs, reviews with names, and a number that dials in one tap turn a warm referral into a booked appointment. The same pages then do the work for people who have never heard of you, which is where the growth comes from.

Both, because customers split by hour. During the day most people call, which is why the tappable number sits in the mobile viewport rather than in a header nobody scrolls to. In the evening and at weekends a short booking form captures jobs that would otherwise go to whoever answers first, and the ranked audit list puts online booking and after-hours capture among the top five fixes for electrician websites. We wire enquiries into your scheduler so nothing lives in an inbox.

Less than you think, and phone photographs from the vans are usually enough to start. What works is real: a finished board, an EV charger on a real driveway, your team on site in branded workwear, the van outside a recognisable local building. We edit and colour-correct what you send, and where a gap remains we either arrange a short shoot or use carefully chosen imagery that does not pretend to be your crew.

By building light rather than by optimising heavy afterwards: correctly sized images, minimal scripts, no plugin sprawl, clean markup and fast hosting. We test on mid-range phones on mobile data before launch, not on a designer's monitor. It matters commercially, not just technically — contractor websites under 2.5 seconds converted at 6.8% against 2.1% for those over 4.5 seconds. Maintenance plans include quarterly speed checks so the website does not drift back.

We write it, with your electricians as the source. A short interview with the person who quotes the work gives us the detail that makes a page convincing: what a job involves, what changes the price, what a customer should have ready. You review and sign off every page before it goes live, and nothing publishes with placeholder text or invented claims about your company.

The list is shorter than most agencies pretend. A mobile-friendly layout that loads fast, a tap-to-call button visitors never have to hunt for, a short booking form, licence and insurance details, real photographs of your electrical work, reviews, a clear service-area map, and a page for each service you sell. Useful extras for some businesses: live availability, finance options on larger installs, an emergency banner, and a customer portal for commercial accounts. Everything else is decoration, and we would rather spend the budget on the things that help a customer decide.

From your market, not from a moodboard. A domestic electrician competing on trust and response time wants a clean, friendly, modern look with big type, warm photography and obvious contact elements. An industrial contractor bidding for contracts wants a more professional, restrained design with technical detail, accreditations and project evidence. We show two directions early, explain the reasoning behind each in plain language, and let you choose before any development work starts.

A month of adjustments is included, and after that an optional plan covers hosting, updates, security, backups, quarterly speed checks and a monthly allowance of small changes. It is easy to leave: the code, the domain and the hosting are yours, and we hand over documentation good enough for another developer to pick up. Most clients stay because the same team then handles their digital marketing, but the website solutions we build are never held hostage to that.

Ask four questions and the field narrows fast. Who owns the site, the code and the domain when the project ends? Is this a custom build or a theme with your logo dropped in? Can your office edit the key pages unaided? And can they show electrical services businesses they have actually launched, with the local search results to go with them? Ask for two client references and call them. The best web design partner for an electric trade company is rarely the one with the prettiest portfolio highlights; it is the one whose sites bring their customers work.

The site is the destination for every other channel, so we design it to receive them. Service pages match the searches your SEO will chase, area pages give local campaigns somewhere relevant to land, and each page has a single conversion so paid traffic is not asked to browse. Tracking is installed and verified at launch, which means every potential enquiry can be traced back to the page that produced it instead of disappearing into an unattributed pile.

Yes, and it is usually the point. Our electrician SEO, paid search and analytics teams work from the same plan as the build team, so the pages are designed for the searches they will target rather than retrofitted later. Taking the website alone and keeping your current marketing is equally fine — we document everything and leave every account in your name.