Construction & Builders web design agency
A finished kitchen can't say who built it. Your website can.
Someone about to hand a contractor a large check and the house keys deserves more than a gallery. We build construction sites that name who quotes the job, who shows up and what happens between the two.
Free 15-minute call · written quote · build starts within 24 hours
Fixed prices, published
- Up to 10 pages$1,500
- 11 to 20 pages$2,250
- 21 to 50 pages$3,750
- 51 to 70 pages$5,750
Each one includes SEO, design, content writing, content management, lead forms, online booking and a year of support. See the full price list.
What we measured
47 independent Phoenix-area home-service trades, tested on a simulated phone. Homepages only, totals only, and no business is named.
66median mobile speed score, of 100
6.2suntil the main content shows
13%offer online booking on the homepage
43%show a phone link and no form or booking
From our Phoenix-area website tests. A small group can swing on a few sites.
The org chart is the sales pitch.
Look at the builders in our portfolio. Bleuwave Construction self-performs everything under $100,000, with no subcontractors on core scopes and one crew from start to punch-out. Core Construction Group sells owner-direct: you deal with the owner, not a subcontractor chain. Cactus Valley Homes promises one point of contact from the first sketch to the last key. Three different companies. Each site is built around a sentence about who the client will deal with, and the photographs back the sentence up.
We build that way because a room can't testify. A photo of finished cabinets won't say who framed the house, who hung the doors or who picks up when something settles in the second year. A well-built site can say all of it: project pages with scope and city, a process with names attached, and a license number typed out as text, so a buyer can paste it into a state license lookup.
The inquiry needs room too. Our home-service sample spans many trades and doesn't break out builders, so take this as a neighbor's reading: 47% of those sites have a form on the homepage, a newsletter sign-up included, and 43% show a phone link and no form or booking. A phone link suits a leaking pipe. A remodel arrives with drawings, a survey and a budget, and our opinion is that it deserves a form built to hold them.
What we build against
- Finished-room photos with no scope, no city and no sign of who did what.
- Custom homes and bathroom remodels on one page, so no reader finds their own job.
- Inquiries that arrive with no scope, budget or location, so sorting each one takes a meeting.
- A license number locked inside a badge image that nobody can copy.
- A silent middle: no word on what happens between signing and the final walkthrough.
Inside a construction & builders website
What the site should settle before the first meeting.
We'd expect two kinds of reader on most contractors' sites, and they want opposite things. A homeowner wants the finished space and the people who'll be in the house. An owner's rep or an architect wants size, scope, delivery method and safety record, and your backsplash won't help. Bleuwave Construction's site addresses five audiences separately, because each defines a good contractor differently. You may need only two.
Treat each project as a page. City, scope, duration, what went wrong and how it got fixed. Photos in order from framing to finish show the work that vanishes when the walls close. Those pages also give search engines something to read about the jobs you want more of, which a folder of unlabeled images never will. Name the neighborhood, skip the street, and get the owner's permission.
Then let the form do some sorting: project type, a rough budget range and a place to attach plans. You'd rather read a few inquiries with drawings than a stack with the word "remodel" in them. Once the site is carrying that load, the construction marketing page covers what to spend on traffic. If your estimates go into software, one custom API integration comes with every package.
The pages a builder's site needs
Project case studies
One page per job with location, size, scope and duration, shot in sequence from framing to finish.
Our process, phase by phase
Consultation through warranty, with the person the client talks to at each stage. Bleuwave Construction lays out six steps so nobody has to ask.
Commercial prequalification
Project types, size range, delivery methods, and how to request insurance and bonding papers.
Building on your lot
For custom builders: whether you build on the client's land, help find a lot, or evaluate a site first.
Licenses, insurance and memberships
Numbers as plain text, a statement of coverage, and only the associations you actually belong to.
Warranty and service requests
What's covered, for how long, and a form to report an item. It says you plan to be around after closing.
Features that fit a long decision
Plan and survey uploads
The inquiry can carry architect drawings, a survey or a sketch, so the estimator sees scope before the meeting. Lead form capture comes in every package, and we quote upload fields in writing.
A page per job type
We built a kitchen remodeling page and a bathroom page for Bleuwave Construction, so a reader planning one job finds one page about it.
A portfolio browsed by detail
Cactus Valley Homes' gallery goes by the brass on a vanity and the curve of a wine rack. Our read is that in luxury work the detail is the sale, and a grid of whole rooms hides it.
A concrete first offer
Cactus Valley's new builds offer a free lot survey and soils test, up to a $3,000 credit, in place of a vague invitation to call. Your offer will differ. The principle travels.
Trade and vendor intake
A separate form for subcontractors and suppliers keeps certificates and sales calls out of the estimating inbox. It's small automation, and it's the kind you stop noticing.
Punch-list items on most builder sites
- Renderings beside completed work with no label. One sharp-eyed client and the credibility is gone.
- Photos with no credit line, so nobody knows if you built the house or installed the cabinets.
- House numbers in the shot and GPS data still attached to the file.
- A custom-home builder in the same template shell as the lawn service down the road.
Why builders hire us.
We've made this argument
Bleuwave Construction, Core Construction Group and Cactus Valley Homes each sell a different promise about who shows up. We built each site to carry its own.
No kit homes
You wouldn't frame a custom house from a kit. Cactus Valley Homes outgrew a Wix template and then WordPress before we rebuilt it from scratch in hand-written code.
A written number and a short schedule
Fixed price by page count, quoted in writing before money moves. Most sites go live in 7 to 10 days, and no inspector has to sign off.
Construction & Builders work, live right now.
The full portfolio
First class all the way!
From the prompt communication, being available seven days a week, to the nuts and bolts of getting our project completed on time and on budget — I highly recommend!
Casey, the owner and developer, took the project and ran with it 100%.
I gave him specific direction and he went well above the call of duty. Five star service all the way!
Questions we hear a lot.
What does a construction company website cost?
Budget by how many jobs you want to show, because a page per project adds up. Up to 10 pages is $1,500, 11 to 20 is $2,250, 21 to 50 is $3,750, and 51 to 70 is $5,750, all flat. Whichever you pick, you get SEO, design, content writing, content management for adding new projects yourself, lead form capture, online booking, one custom third-party API integration and a year of support. See pricing. A client portal is separate, from $575, and the price depends on complexity.
Should residential and commercial share a site?
Usually, in our opinion. Give each its own section, projects and form, and keep your reputation at one address. A second domain makes sense when the two run as separate companies. Core Construction Group, for one, carries remodeling and facility services on a single site.
Should we show jobs still under construction?
Yes, labeled as in progress. Framing and rough-in photos show work the finished room conceals, and they're the only proof of it you'll ever have. Get the owner's permission first.
Can the form screen out the wrong jobs?
It can ask for project type, town and a budget range, and it can say plainly what you don't take. It can't make anyone honest about a budget. We'd expect fewer mismatches, though we can't promise a number. If inquiries come in and nobody hears about it, read how forms fail quietly.
What should the site say about our license and bonding?
Only what's true, typed as text, with the number where a buyer can copy it. Whether your site or ads have to carry certain wording is a question for your licensing board or your own counsel. We'll put their answer on the page.
We're on WordPress. Should we move?
Not automatically. Plenty of problems are repairs. Our comparison lays out the tradeoff, and if moving wins, here is what a migration involves. We'll tell you if yours doesn't need one.
How long does the build take?
Build starts within 24 hours of your go-ahead, and most sites go live in 7 to 10 days. The usual holdup on a builder's site is the photos. Send what you have and we'll tell you which projects can carry a page.
Where to look next
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Tell us who shows up. We'll build the site around it.
Bring your best project and the name of the person who ran it. We'll talk for 15 minutes and put a flat quote in writing.