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The offer, the area, and the phone. A visitor who reads nothing else should still know what to do next.
Small business website design
Website design for a small business is a site that tells a stranger what you do, where you work, and how to reach you. The result that matters is a phone call or an enquiry.
HSJ Host is an Australian team. We build the site, host it, and change it after launch. Most businesses start with five pages. Some need a larger build. This page says which is which.
Five pages for most businesses
Fixed-price path in 30 days
Australian team
What the first screen has to do
Name the work, name the area, and give one way to get in touch.
What the site has to do
A person who has never heard of the business should be able to answer five things without hunting. These are the five jobs of the site. Fonts and colour still matter, and they are not what makes the phone ring.
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1
The offer
Say what the business does, in the customer’s words, on the first screen.
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2
The area
Name the suburbs, the city, or Australia-wide if that is actually true.
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3
The proof
Show photos of the work, or the names of the people a customer will deal with.
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4
The phone
Put a number that taps to call where a thumb can reach it.
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5
One next step
Call, or send an enquiry. One action, not a row of equal buttons.
Small business website design packages
A package is those five pages, written and published, with the phone, the form and the proof already in place. Small business website design services from HSJ Host cover the copy, the layout and the launch. Website design services for small business that stop at a picture of a homepage leave the owner to finish the job.
The fixed price is $3,500 including GST, delivered in 30 days. Hosting, one domain and the page copy are included. A larger site is quoted from $5,000 including GST.
What you hand over, and what we do
- You tell us what the business does, where it works, and how customers should get in touch.
- You supply photos and any licence or registration wording the business already uses.
- We write the five pages in plain language and build them so the phone and the form are obvious on a mobile.
- We launch the site on hosting, with the domain and SSL included in the $3,500 package.
Fixed-price package
$3,500
Including GST
- Five pages, written and published
- Delivered in 30 days
- Hosting, one domain and SSL
- Contact form and tap-to-call
The pages most small businesses need
Website design for small business usually comes down to five pages. Add another page only when a service, a location or a booking step cannot be explained on one of these.
What you do
The services in the customer’s words. One page is enough when the offer is a single line of work. Split it when the services are genuinely different jobs.
Who you are
The business name, how long it has traded, and the people a customer will deal with. A paragraph of history is enough. A timeline is not required.
Proof
Photos of finished work, a short note from a customer, or the names of organisations you already serve. Use proof you can stand behind.
Contact
A phone number that taps to call, an enquiry form, the hours, and where the business works. Put the same phone number in the header.
If the business is a trade, a practice, a hotel or a law firm
A general small-business site is the right start when the work is one offer and one area. Some businesses need a tighter set of pages. Use the short version here, and the matching page when that business is yours.
Trades
A plumber, electrician, builder or landscaper needs the suburbs they travel to, a number that taps to call, and photos of finished jobs. A licence or registration number belongs on the site when the business already has one. That brief is website design for tradies, and it is tighter than a generic services page.
Dental practices
A practice site has to show the dentist’s name, the suburb, the hours, the treatments and how to book. Patients decide before they call. The practice supplies the treatment list. We put it on the site in plain language, and we do not give clinical advice. That brief is dentist website design.
Hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts
An independent property needs rooms, photos, the location and a way to enquire. That is the property’s own site. Guests use an enquiry, or a booking system the property already has. It is not a page that compares hotels, and it is not a new booking engine.
Law firm website design
A client chooses a firm from the practice areas, the lawyers they will meet, and how to book a first conversation. Those three belong on the site, in plain language. We do not give legal advice, and we do not draft the advice the firm gives its clients.
When the job is bigger than five pages
Five pages is enough when the business can explain itself once. More services, a booking step, or a brand that needs its own design is a larger custom site. If the build has to be WordPress, that is custom WordPress work.
Those pages carry their own scope. This page stays the guide for the five-page shape.
After the site is live
Hours change. A person joins or leaves. A service is added. A phone number is replaced. The site goes quiet when nobody updates it.
ongoing website care is the follow-on: the same team changes the live site after launch. Hosting is billed on its own.
Questions people ask before they start
Short answers. The fixed price is $3,500 including GST.
What is small business website design?
A site that names the business, the work, the area, and how to get in touch. The measure is a call or an enquiry, not a brochure.
How do you design a website for a small business?
Write the five pages, put the offer and the phone on the first screen, add proof, and make the next step a call or a form. That is the whole method.
What is included in a small business website design package?
Home, services, about, proof and contact, plus a tap-to-call number and an enquiry form. The fixed-price 5-page site is $3,500 including GST, delivered in 30 days, with hosting, one domain and the page copy included.
What does inexpensive website design for a small business mean?
The fixed price for the 5-page site is $3,500 including GST, delivered in 30 days. A larger site is quoted from $5,000 including GST. It is a set scope, not a cut-down template.
What is the best platform for a small business website?
The platform is secondary. A free website builder, including Wix, is a reasonable test page. It is a weak fit when the business needs suburbs, a tap-to-call number, proof, and someone to change the site after launch. If you want to build it yourself on hosting we look after, SiteJet is the builder.
Is a small business website worth it?
It is worth it when someone searching for that business can see the work and make contact. A page that hides the phone is the failure, not the fact of having a site.
Tell us about the business
Say what you do and where you work. We will tell you whether five pages is enough, or whether the job belongs on a larger build.