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West Wales Roofing

A roofer going out on his own, with no website, no photographs online and no way to be found. Now a portfolio he updates himself from the scaffold.

CLIENT
West Wales Roofing
SCOPE
Design, build, CMS, hosting
SECTOR
Roofing & trades

An experienced roofer, a brand new firm.

Will had years on roofs across south and west Wales, contracting to established firms. What he did not have was anything a homeowner could find, or anything to show them once they did. The site had to do two jobs at once: prove the work is good, and prove the man is worth ringing, without inventing a track record the business had not earned yet.

Built for how a roofer actually works.

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He runs it himself

Every job, photograph and detail is his to change, from a phone on site. No developer, no invoice, no waiting. Photographs upload straight off the camera roll and are resized on the way in.

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Fast on a bad signal

His customers are in villages with two bars. A six megabyte site photograph reaches them as a hundred kilobytes, the typefaces are served from the site itself, and nothing waits on a third party before the page appears.

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Findable where he works

The town, the counties, the hours and every job's location are all structured for search, so "roofer near me" in Cardigan has something to find.

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Honest by construction

The jobs were worked while contracting to other firms, and the site says so. It claims no insurance he does not hold and no customers he has not had. Trust that survives the first phone call.

Selected screens.

What it costs him to run.

£17
A year, all in. The domain and the mailbox. Hosting, the editor and everything behind them cost nothing at this size.
95%
Smaller photographs. A 5.9MB shot off his phone reaches a visitor as 269KB, without him thinking about it.
0
Third parties watching his customers. No analytics, no cookies, no tracking, and a privacy policy short enough to read.

Design

Slate greys and a working red, built from his own logo. Photography of real roofs doing the talking, never stock.

Build

A static site generated ahead of time, so every page is already written before anyone asks for it. Structured data throughout for local search.

Runs on

Cloudflare, with the enquiry form handled at the edge and mail sent from his own domain. No server to patch, nothing to go down at 2am.

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