Trades websites built for somebody standing in two inches of water.
They are not comparing portfolios. They are looking for a number a real person answers.
Home services is the one trade where the visitor is usually having a bad day. A water heater has gone, the air conditioning quit in August, something upstairs is dripping through the ceiling. They searched on a phone, they are going to call the first business that looks legitimate, and they decide in about the time it takes to read a headline.
That makes the design simple and unglamorous, which is the point. The phone number rides the top of every screen and it is tappable. The service area is written out in words instead of left to be guessed from an address. Licensing, insurance and how you charge are in plain sight, because the fear in this transaction is not really the price. It is being taken advantage of by a stranger in your house.
Written by Nic Rodriguez, who built the plumbing sample this page links to, starting from the phone number and working outwards. More about who builds this.
What web design for plumbers, HVAC and contractors looks like at two in the morning
- A tappable phone number pinned to every screen, not parked on a contact page
- Your service area written out, so nobody has to guess whether you come that far
- License, insurance, and how you price, said plainly and near the top
- A page for each service people search by name, so the emergency finds the exact fix
- Before and after photos of real jobs, and a form for the work that is not urgent
Open one and click around.
A working sample build of exactly this kind of site. The business in it is invented. The site is not: every screen works, so you can judge the work rather than the description of it.
For individuals
The Portfolio
A small, sharp site for one person and their work. Photographers, designers, makers.
from $500
one-time, for individuals
- ✓Up to 3 pages: your work, about, contact
- ✓Custom design around your work, never a template
- ✓A gallery or showcase built for your images
- ✓Free hosting and your custom domain, connected
- ✓You own it outright, no monthly plan needed
The Build
A complete custom website, designed, built, and launched. Yours to keep.
from $2,500
one-time project fee
- ✓Custom design around your brand and photos
- ✓Mobile-first, fast, and accessible
- ✓Copywriting help and content setup
- ✓Contact forms, maps, and booking links
- ✓Google Business & search basics
- ✓Free hosting: $0/month, SSL included
- ✓Your custom domain, connected
Build + Care
Everything in The Build, plus a team that keeps it current, secure, and growing.
from $2,500 + $200/mo
project fee, then a flat monthly plan
- ✓Everything in The Build
- ✓Content edits & updates whenever you need them
- ✓Uptime & performance monitoring
- ✓Backups & security watch
- ✓New pages & features, quoted before we start
- ✓Priority support from a real person, not a ticket queue
The $200/month covers updates, monitoring, and support. Hosting stays free either way.
Custom
No job is too big or too small. Bigger builds, smaller fixes, and everything your site needs in between.
from $5,000
scoped to your project
- ✓Online ordering & e-commerce
- ✓Customer accounts & portals
- ✓Integrations with your POS, booking, or CRM
- ✓Custom pipelines & automations
- ✓Scoped and quoted before we start
Web Application
Software that runs your business, not a page that describes it. If you can imagine it, we can build it.
In development
pricing scoped per project at launch
- ✓Customer rewards and loyalty programs
- ✓AI chat bots that know your business
- ✓Agentic pipelines that do the work for you
- ✓Onboarding pipelines that sign customers up
- ✓Business dashboards with your live numbers
- ✓Data ingestion pipelines
Interested? Message us at support@alamo-digital.com for details.
What Web Application includesSee your design before you pay for the build.
A refundable deposit starts the design work: $250 for site builds, $100 for portfolio builds. It comes off your total, or it comes back to you, fully refundable.
Questions we hear from home services and trades.
Do I need a separate page for every service?
Not every one, but the ones people search by name earn their own. Water heater replacement and drain cleaning are different searches by different people in different moods, and one page trying to cover both usually gets found for neither. We pick which ones with you while we scope the build.
Should people book online or just call?
Both, because they are different jobs. Emergencies call, and that number has to be one tap away. Estimates, installs, and maintenance are perfectly happy to fill in a form or pick a slot, and that lands in your email or your phone straight away. We wire whichever mix matches how you actually run the day.
We cover several towns. How does that work?
We list them plainly, and if a town is genuinely worth the work we give it a page written for that town. What we will not do is generate forty near-identical pages with the name swapped out. Search engines have penalized that for years, and a human reading two of them in a row spots it instantly.
Tell us about the business.
What you do, how far you travel, and whether you take emergency calls. We come back within 24 hours with a real number, not a range.
Work you can check before you talk to us.
Two real client builds and the process that produced them. One is public right now, the other goes live when the client moves their domain across.