Web design in Reading
Reading is not our patch. We are a small studio in Southampton and everything we do for a Reading business happens over the phone, on video and on WhatsApp. The reason that works is simple: we build your site before you pay, so you are judging the real thing, not a pitch. The rest of this page is about the Reading search results, which are a fight worth understanding.
We build the site first and show you. If a Reading builder wants money before you have seen anything, that tells you how confident they are.
A website that does one job: get the phone to ring
A plain list, no sales talk. This is what you are paying for.
- A free preview of your own site inside 48 hours, before you pay anything
- Set up so Google can read it: titles, descriptions, schema, the lot
- Every page written by hand, so it loads in under two seconds on 4G
- Your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form on every single screen
- One clear price up front. Builds from £395, and shops or apps are quoted on the job
- No page builder and no bought theme, so there is nothing in it to slow it down
The Reading businesses we build for most
Reading is a commuter and office town, with Thames Valley Park on the Earley side and Green Park off the M4 at junction 11. A lot of households are busy, out all day and book trades online. That shapes who wins the work.
Plumbers and heating engineers
Search plumber Reading and you get MyBuilder, Checkatrade, TrustATrader and Houzz, then firms with domains like plumberinreading.com. A one-van plumber in Tilehurst is squeezed between the two. What you have that they do not is your own name and your own reviews. The site has to lead with both.
Builders and loft conversions
Victorian terraces in east Reading and around the Oxford Road, plus bigger semis out in Caversham and Emmer Green. Owners here are often comparing three quotes from their phone at lunch. A page with real finished jobs, a rough idea of timescales and a way to send photos of their house does the first visit for you.
New-build snagging and outdoor trades
Green Park Village and the newer estates round Reading have houses a few years old whose owners now want patios, garden rooms and fitted wardrobes. That is a clean, local market. A site that names those estates and shows that type of work is speaking to them directly.
More on this: websites for builders, websites for plumbers and websites for heating engineers.
What you are actually up against in Reading
Reading plumbing is one of the most crowded searches we have looked at. Four directories on the first page, plus trades who bought domains with Reading in the name years ago and have been sitting on them since. Behind them are Berkshire-wide heating firms covering everything from Newbury to Bracknell.
The way in is the map box and the small areas. Tilehurst, Earley, Woodley and Caversham all get searched on their own, and the directories are weaker there. A fast site with a page per area you really cover, tied to a Google Business Profile with real reviews, is how a small Reading firm gets the call instead of the listing.
Who we have actually built for near Reading
We are not going to invent a client in Reading to make this page look better. Here is the nearest one we can name, and you can go and open the site yourself.
Direct Landscaping & Tree Care, Southampton
Patios, driveways, fencing and tree work across Southampton. A photo-led build carried by his own finished jobs: a sandstone patio hero, a gallery of real work, a page for each service, and his customers' reviews quoted word for word.
He sells outdoor work that nobody can price from a description, which is the same problem half of Reading has.
Southampton is 42 miles from Reading in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at www.directlandscapingandtreecare.co.uk. We built it first and they paid after.
There are more like it. Our work page has every live site we have built and where each one is. Anything we built on spec is on there too, labelled as a concept, so you can tell which is which.
Where we work around Reading
We work with Reading businesses remotely. These are the parts of Reading and the edges round it that a local site should name.
- Central Reading, the Oxford Road and west Reading
- Caversham and Emmer Green, north of the river
- Tilehurst and Calcot
- Earley and Woodley, out towards Thames Valley Park
- Whitley and Shinfield to the south
- Green Park Village and Theale off junction 11
Web Design in Reading: three questions we get asked
How long until it is live?
You see a real preview of your own site inside 48 hours. From the point you say yes, a small site is usually live inside a week, and most of that week is waiting on your photos and your domain login rather than on us.
What does a website actually cost in Reading?
Ours start at £395 for a one to four page site, £650 for a bigger business site and £1,200 for a premium build. A shop or a web app is quoted on the job because no two are the same. That is the whole list, and it is on the pricing page rather than behind a form.
How does it work if you are not in Reading?
Everything is done on the phone, on a video call and over WhatsApp. You tell us about the business, send some photos of your work, and we build the site. You get a link to the real thing inside 48 hours and decide from there. We never need to come to Tilehurst to do that, and you never pay for a meeting that goes nowhere.
Where Reading is from us
Reading is in Berkshire, in the RG postcode area, 42 miles north-east of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Guildford is the closest town to Reading that we also cover, 23 miles away, then Oxford at 24 miles.
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- Free audit of the site you have now
Get a free preview for your Reading business
Your name, your business and a way to reach you. We build a real preview of your site inside 48 hours, and you see it before you pay anything.
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