Web design · St Helens
Web design in St Helens, built to graft.
I am Jake. I build websites for St Helens businesses on spec, so you see the finished site for your trade before you pay the rest. From £297, live in 7 days, on your own domain.
From £297, live in 7 days, on your own domain.
Web design in St Helens
I am Jake, and I run FORGE. I do web design in St Helens the honest way, which means I build the site first and send it to you finished, then you decide. It starts at £297, it is live within 7 days, it sits on your own domain, and the first three months of looking after it are included. Just £99 to start, no drawn-out meetings, no paying in full for something you have not seen. You look at the real site for your business and pay the rest if you want it.
St Helens is a working town. It made glass for the world, it grafts, and it knows the difference between a fair price and a con. I build websites the same way I would expect a tradesman here to work: turn up, do the job properly, charge what you said you would. That is the whole idea.
Built for a town that makes things
St Helens has never been a town that trades on flash. It built its name on Pilkington glass and hard, practical work, and the businesses that do well here are the ones that get on with it. So I do not build showy sites full of stock photos and buzzwords. I build sites that say what you do, where you do it, and what it costs, then get out of the way so the customer can call you.
If you are a plumber, a joiner, a roofer, a landscaper, a cleaner, a mechanic or a town-centre independent, your customer is not looking to be impressed. They are looking for someone reliable who will pick up and do a good job. Your website’s only job is to make that person trust you enough to get in touch. Everything I build is pointed at that one outcome, and nothing on the page is there to pad it out.
Found across St Helens and the villages, not just the town centre
St Helens is really a town plus a ring of villages, and your customers think in those terms. Someone in Rainhill searches differently to someone in Haydock, and a job in Newton-le-Willows feels a world away from one in Billinge even though it is ten minutes up the road. If your site only says “St Helens” once and hopes for the best, you miss half the patch.
So I build it to be found properly. That means the site is set up around your actual service area, the WA postcodes you cover, and the places your customers name when they type into Google. Eccleston, Rainford, Sutton, Thatto Heath, Parr, the lot. I make it clear where you work so the right people in the right village find you first, instead of you losing the job to someone further away who simply looked easier to find.
Priced to graft, not to fleece you
Here is the full price, no games. It is £297 to build the site, and that includes the first three months of care. After that it is £49 a month if you just want it kept running and small changes made when you need them. If you want to push harder and get new pages and active local SEO every month, that is £129. And you own the site. It is on your domain, it is yours, and there is no lock-in holding you to me.
I lead with the price because that is what people here actually want to know, and because I have watched too many web firms hide it until they have you on a call. St Helens has a long memory for anyone who tries to fleece it. I would rather show you the number, show you the finished site, and let both do the talking. If it is not right for you, the only thing at stake is the £99 deposit. That is a bet I am happy to make.
Fast, because you have got jobs to be doing
Seven days. That is the target from the moment you say go, and I hit it. You are not sitting waiting six weeks for a designer in some agency to get round to you, and you are not chasing me for updates. I do the build, I send it, we tweak anything you want changed, and it goes live.
The site itself is fast too, and that matters more than people realise. It is built lean and hosted on a fast network, no bloated WordPress dragging its heels. When someone in a hurry taps your link on their phone in the rain, it loads straight away instead of making them wait and wander off to the next result. In a town where people judge you on whether you turn up on time, a slow website sends exactly the wrong message.
Tried a website before and got nothing back?
A lot of people in St Helens have paid for a website once, watched it sit there doing nothing, and written the whole idea off. Fair enough. Usually it was built to look pretty and then abandoned, with nothing pointing customers at it and no one keeping it current. A dead site is worse than no site.
That is why I build to be found, not just to exist, and why the care plan keeps it moving instead of letting it rot. Two edits a month, your Google Business Profile kept current, and a plain report telling you whether anyone is actually finding you. If you have been burned before, this is the version that earns its keep. Message me, tell me what you do and where you work, and I will build you the finished site to look at. You decide once you can see it.
How it works
From message to live in four steps.
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Message me
Tell me what you do and where you are on WhatsApp. No forms, no call to book.
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£99 to start
A £99 deposit gets your build going and comes off your quote. It covers some of the build time.
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I build it, you see it
I build the whole site, framed around your work, and send it to you finished to look at.
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Pay the rest, go live
Happy with it? You pay the balance, it goes live on your own domain, and it is yours to keep.
What you get
What a site from me includes.
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Built on spec
I build it first and send it finished. You see the real thing before you decide, not a mock-up.
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Live in 7 days
From the go-ahead, your site is live within a week. No months of back and forth.
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On your own domain
It goes live in your name. You own the site and everything on it, with no lock-in.
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Genuinely fast
Static pages, no WordPress. Fast pages rank better and turn more visitors into calls.
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Found on Google
Built to be found in local search, with the plumbing done properly from day one.
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Looked after
Someone looks after it and changes it when you need. Two small edits a month, your listing kept current.
Who I build for
Trades and businesses in St Helens.
- Trades Own your leads instead of renting them off a directory. Built for emergency call-outs and high-ticket work, on your own domain, live in 7 days.
- Home services Get found for the jobs happening on your street. Visual, seasonal, recurring work, shown off and easy to book, live in 7 days on your own domain.
- Local business Fill the diary and drive footfall without paying per booking. Booking-led and occasion-led work, shown off and easy to choose, on a site you own.
What it costs
A straight price.
From £297 to build it, first three months of Care included, then £49 a month.
You own the site outright and can stop the monthly plan whenever you like. Hosting is part of Care and Grow, so one of those keeps it online after the first three months, or you host it yourself. See the full pricing.
Common questions
Questions I get asked.
Do you actually build the site before I pay?
Yes. I build websites for St Helens businesses on spec, which means I do the work first and send you the finished site. You look at it, click round it, and only pay the balance once you want to keep it. The £99 to start comes off your price and covers some of the build time, so there is very little at stake on your side.
How much does a website cost and are there hidden fees?
It is £297 to build, and that includes the first three months of care. After that it is £49 a month to keep it running and make small changes, or £129 a month if you want new pages and active local SEO. That is the whole price. St Helens is a town that spots a dodgy quote a mile off, so I keep mine plain.
Do you cover the villages around St Helens as well as the town centre?
Yes. Newton-le-Willows, Rainhill, Haydock, Billinge, Eccleston, Rainford, Sutton, Thatto Heath and Parr are all part of the patch. If your customers come from across the WA postcodes, your site is built to be found across all of them, not just the town centre.
Will the site be found on Google for my trade?
That is the point of it. I set the site up so it targets what people actually search, like your trade plus St Helens or the village they live in, and I get it structured the way Google wants. On the £129 plan I keep adding pages and chasing local rankings month on month.
I get most of my work by word of mouth. Do I need a website?
Word of mouth is gold in a town like this, but the person you got recommended to still searches your name before they call. If there is nothing there, or an old Facebook page, you look smaller than you are. A proper site backs up the recommendation instead of losing it.
Do I own the website or am I renting it from you?
You own it. It is on your own domain and it is yours to keep. If you ever walk away, you walk away with the site. The monthly fee is for looking after it and changing it, not for holding it hostage.
How fast can it go live?
Seven days from the go-ahead in most cases. I do not drag jobs out. If you message me this week, you could be sending customers to a finished site next week.
Can you update it once it is live?
Yes. On the care plan you get up to two small edits a month, so new prices, a phone number change, a fresh photo of a job you are proud of, that is all sorted without you touching anything. Message me and it gets done.
Tell me what you do and I'll build you a site on spec, so you can see it before you pay. See the full pricing, browse the work, or get in touch.