Web and code: small business websites

See your site before you pay.

A one-page website for a sole trader or a small crew, built in the browser in one sitting. Live with its own domain for a yearly figure, or taken free.

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Who it is for

Anyone who wants a modern website that is quick to get, found in search and easy to get in touch through, without a designer, a project or a big bill.

Mostly sole traders and small crews. Plumbers, electricians, builders, painters, roofers, landscapers, cleaners and handymen have a template written for the trade; any other business starts from the general one. The page says who you are, what you do, where and when, and what people have said about you, on your own domain, and it makes calling, texting or emailing you one tap.

Nothing asked for until the site is in front of you

Choose a trade, a look and a colour. Type in the name, the number, the hours and the area, and the page builds as you go. The finished site is on the screen before any question of paying for it, and the decision is made looking at it.

How it works

  1. Build it

    Pick the trade, the template and the colours. Fill in the name, the number, the hours, the services and the area, and a few photos if there are any. The page builds itself as you go. No account; the draft saves on your device.

  2. Check it

    The finished page, as it will look on a phone and on a desktop, before anything is paid.

  3. Get it live, or take it

    Get it live for me: a domain registered in your name, hosting, a secure address, and the first year looked after. Or take the folder free and put it online yourself.

Free, or hosted

Take it free
$0
The site as a folder, for an email address. Put it online anywhere; the guide in the folder names two hosts that take a folder by drag and drop. Keep the "Site by Train Effect" line in the footer.
Get it live for me
$300 to put it live
A domain registered in your name, hosting, a secure address, and the first year looked after. Paid by card once the site is approved.
$99 each year after
The domain and the hosting renewed, and the site kept running.
$30 for each change made for you
Most take fifteen minutes. Bigger jobs are quoted first, at $120 an hour, and nothing is charged until you agree.

All prices in New Zealand dollars. The full terms: terms and licence, hosting terms.

What it deliberately does not do

One page, not a site of pages. No shop, no bookings, no forms, no visitor tracking, no cookies. A page that says who you are, what you do, where, when, and how to call.

Need more than one page? That is a designed website, which we also do. Web design and development.

Written for the trades

A preset for each of the eight trades fills the page with words that already sound right, so most of the work is changing a name and a number. Everything is yours to rewrite.

Example sites

Six templates, each shown on a business that does not exist, in a city that does. Open any of them.

What to add after

A domain is a website and an email address. With a Google Business Profile and Search Console beside it, a small business has its whole basic setup, for very little.

Email on your domain
[email protected] instead of a Gmail address, on the phone you already carry. We set it up on Google Workspace, or Microsoft 365 if that is where you work, and you pay them their monthly fee. Almost every trade should have this.
A Google Business Profile that agrees with the site
The listing that puts you on the map and in the local results. We set it up, or check the one you have, so the hours, the areas and the services match the site word for word. The site already carries all three in the form Google reads.
Search Console
We tell Google the site exists and connect the reports, so you can see the search terms people found you by. Free from Google.
Photographs of your work
The one thing a library picture can never be. A half day on your jobs gives the site, the profile and the ads the same real pictures.

Questions

Domains
One domain is included in the $300 and the $99: a name that is free to register at its standard price, in a common ending such as .nz, .co.nz or .com. A name someone already owns, or one a registry sells as premium, costs the difference. A domain you already have keeps its registrar; its DNS moves to our Cloudflare account, a nameserver change we do with you, with your email records brought across first.
Ownership and the licence
Your content is yours: the name, the words, the photos, the logo, the reviews. The template, the code and the library pictures are Train Effect’s, with a free, permanent licence to use them for your own business’s website: host it anywhere, change it, keep it. The domain is registered in your name.
Changes
A live site does not change by itself. Ask for a change and it is made for $30; most take fifteen minutes. Bigger jobs are quoted first, at $120 an hour, and nothing is charged until you agree. Fixes that keep the site working are part of hosting and cost nothing.
Leaving
Leave at any time. You get the site as a folder to put online anywhere, and the domain’s transfer code, free. The licence carries on.

Start building.

Free to use, no account, and nothing to pay until the site is in front of you.

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