To a stranger,no website is a red flag. Greenock websites,all in for £500
Five pages of proper web design for your Greenock business: the trades, cafes, garages and care firms working across Inverclyde.
- £500once, fixed
- No contractnothing to cancel
- You own itsite and domain
Greenock
Websites for the Greenock businesses that never got round to it
If you're not there when someone looks you up, the answer they find is a competitor who is.
Greenock runs along the water. West Blackhall Street and the Oak Mall handle the shops, Cathcart Square and the Custom House sit down at the quay, and the ground climbs steeply behind them to Lyle Hill. Battery Park and the Esplanade take the walkers, and the cruise ships come in at the Ocean Terminal.
Inverclyde is spread out and hilly. Somebody in Larkfield or Branchton who needs a tiler is not walking past your window. They type the trade and the town into a phone, and whoever comes back gets the call. Good work on its own does not put you in front of them.
We are based on Glasgow's Southside, about forty minutes away down the M8 and then the A8 along the river from Langbank. That is a real distance and worth saying out loud. It changes nothing about the job. Same five pages, same £500, and we will still drive out to meet you.
- The town centre and the Oak Mall. Shops, barbers, cafes and offices around West Blackhall Street.
- The West End and Fort Matilda. Practices, therapists and consultants working from home.
- Larkfield and Branchton. Trades, takeaways and the units on the Larkfield estate.
- Cartsdyke and the east end. Garages, joiners and yards near the docks.
- Gourock, Port Glasgow and Kilmacolm. The same coverage right across Inverclyde.
Nearby, and the same £500
Web design Paisley
RenfrewshireThe biggest town in Scotland, with a proper high street to compete on.
Web design Johnstone
RenfrewshireA cotton mill town built around two squares, with the bandstand still in Houstoun Square.
Web design Renfrew
RenfrewshireA royal burgh with Braehead at one end and its own High Street at the other.
Being found in Greenock
Nobody walks past a Greenock shop window
We cover the whole of Greenock, from Cartsdyke and Cartsburn along the shore to Fort Matilda, up by Lyle Hill, Bow Farm and Overton, and on into Gourock.
Greenock climbs. The shops sit low, along West Blackhall Street and around the Oak Mall, while much of the town lives well above them in Larkfield, Branchton, Whinhill and Fancy Farm. Getting from a house to a shop is a decision, not a stroll. So the window display does very little work. The search happens at home, before anybody puts a coat on.
Then there is the sprawl either side. Port Glasgow runs into the east end and Gourock into the west, so nobody is quite sure whose patch they are on. Enquiries stall on one simple question. Will you actually come out this far, and will you charge for it? Say plainly which streets you cover and that hesitation goes away.
What Greenock businesses get wrong online
Never saying how far up the hill you go.
CommonA household in Branchton or Pennyfern will assume you are a town centre business only. One line naming the areas you cover settles it before they pick up the phone.
Building the site as though people walk in.
CommonWith no passing trade, the site is the shopfront. It has to do what a window would do, showing what you sell, roughly what it costs and when you are open.
Uploading photos straight off the camera.
CommonLarge image files crawl on a phone halfway up Lyle Hill. Resized pictures load while the person is still interested rather than after they have given up.
Greenock in detail
The Greenock business map beyond the town centre
Greenock trade sits in estates, docks and village high streets, and which one you are in changes what a website has to do.
Most Inverclyde firms are not on a high street at all. Lynedoch Industrial Estate sits off Dellingburn Street with twenty one units, from small workshops up to fifteen thousand square feet. Drumfrochar Industrial Estate is a single terrace of twelve. Riverside Business Park on Pottery Street holds offices and the Ladyburn Business Centre. Along at Port Glasgow there is Kelburn Business Park beside Woodhall station, and Kingston Industrial Estate off the A8.
The water still pays wages here. Dales Marine works the Garvel Dry Dock at James Watt Dock. Ferguson Marine builds at Port Glasgow. Inchgreen Marine Park, a joint venture between Inverclyde Council and Clydeport, has had heavy investment, with a further twenty million pounds committed for the dry dock and a skills centre. Cruise ships berth at Ocean Terminal from April to late September. That is a real season, and a short one.
The town centre is a building site with a plan behind it. Hector McNeil House came down earlier this year. Balfour Beatty is now removing the eastern wing of the Oak Mall, roughly forty per cent of the centre, to make room for a new glass entrance onto Clyde Square. The Bullring roundabout and the A78 flyover go next. The mall keeps trading throughout. Diversions around Ratho Street, Dalrymple Street and Container Way are the daily reality until 2027.
- Lynedoch and Drumfrochar industrial estates. Joiners, fabricators, motor trades, flooring firms and signwriters, tucked away where no passing customer will ever find them. For a unit off Dellingburn Street the website is the shop front. We build those pages around what you make or fix, photographs of finished jobs, and a phone number that works with one thumb.
- Baker Street Food and Drink Enterprises. Inverclyde's food and drink incubator sits where Baker Street meets Drumfrochar Road, with small manufacturing units for producers growing a brand. Those firms need a site that reads like a brand, not a workshop. A stockist list, the story behind the product, a wholesale contact, and photographs a buyer would happily reuse.
- Kip Marina at Inverkip. Six hundred berths and a boatyard bring riggers, engineers, valeters, canvas workers and delivery skippers. Their customers own boats on the Clyde but live all over, and they book before they ever set foot on the site. A clear services page, an honest guide to what things cost, and a form that reaches your phone.
- Kempock Street and Cardwell Road in Gourock. A proper independent strip of boutiques, galleries, a whisky shop, salons and cafes. These are the businesses most likely to lose a Saturday to Braehead. Show what has come in this week, keep the opening hours genuinely correct, put a map pin on the contact page, and a sofa browse becomes a trip down the road.
- Kilmacolm, Quarriers Village and Inverkip. The villages are where a lot of trade and home service work quietly sits. Builders, gardeners, groomers, cleaners, tutors and carers drive to the customer. Those businesses need the service area written out village by village, and reviews on the page, because the person hiring has never seen your van and is asking Google rather than a neighbour.
Compare the cost
Why £500 once beats "from £350"
Budget web packages advertise a low headline price, then tie you to a monthly direct debit for a year and a half. Here's how that actually adds up.
| Feature | Savvy Website | Typical pay-monthly package | DIY site builder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up front | £500 | from £299 | £0 |
| Monthly fees | None you have to pay | £20–£30 a month | £13–£25 a month |
| Minimum term | None | Often 12 to 18 months | Rolling, but forever |
| Cost over 3 years | £540 | around £1,200 | around £700, and rising |
| Who writes the words | We do | Usually you | You |
| Your own domain | Included, first year | Sometimes included | Paid extra |
| Who owns it | You, outright | Usually them | You rent it |
| If you stop paying | Nothing happens | Site comes down | Site comes down |
Our three year figure is £500 plus roughly £20 a year for domain renewal after the first year. One like-for-like note: pay-monthly totals usually include an email inbox and ours doesn't. Email is an optional add-on, priced on request. We do offer optional care plans from £24.99 a month if you'd rather we looked after the site. It is never required, there is no minimum term, and the three year figures above assume you don't take it. Even allowing for that, the gap doesn't close. Comparison figures are typical advertised UK prices for budget and DIY packages in 2026, and minimum terms are those the providers publish themselves. Always check what your own quote includes.
The only clause that matters
£500 fixed. We don't get half of it until you're happy.
£500, fixed. Half gets the build started; the other half is due only once you've approved the finished site. If we can't get it right, you don't pay it, and the site still transfers to you.
- You approve it before the balance is due. Not the other way round.
- We carry the risk. If we can't get it right, you don't pay the balance.
- It's yours outright. Site and domain, both in your name.
The arithmetic, in full
Fixed. That is the whole cost of your website, and there are no monthly fees to us, ever.
- Today, to start the build
- £250
- Once you've approved it
- £250
- Monthly fees, either way
- None
Card, Apple Pay or Klarna, handled by Stripe. If you would rather get a price first, start there instead.
We don't get that second £250 until you tell us the site is right. If we can't get it right, you don't pay it, and the site still transfers to you.
What's included
Everything in your website, for one fixed price
One price covers the lot. Read every line. There's nothing hiding underneath it.
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Five pages, written for you
IncludedHome, services, about, reviews and contact, with every word written from a 20 minute phone call. No homework, no forms to fill in. If a single sharp page suits you better, we build that instead for the same money.
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Built for phones first
IncludedMost of your customers will find you on a phone, so that's where your site has to shine. Fast to load, easy to read, one tap to call you.
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Your own web address, and the Google side
IncludedYour own domain (yourbusiness.co.uk) registered to your business, first year on us. Set up properly for Google Search and Google Maps, including your Google Business Profile.
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Hosting and the boring bits
IncludedFast, secure hosting, the padlock in the browser bar, and backups. All sorted for you and included for the first year.
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A matching email address
Optional add-onPriced when you ask. Never snuck into the £500, and never billed monthly by us.
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The lot, one price
£500Once it's approved and paid, the site and the domain belong to your business outright. No rent, no strings, no upsells. The only running cost after year one is the £20-a-year domain renewal, paid to the registrar. See the full breakdown of what a website costs.
The work
What a £500 website actually looks like
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After you're live · optional
Never want to think about this again?
Once your site is live it is yours. It keeps working whether you pay us another penny or not, and most owners simply renew the domain each year. If you would rather hand the upkeep over, there are two plans. Both are optional, month to month, and neither is mentioned on the call.
- Care plan, £24.99 a month. Hosting, domain, backups, three changes a month and a traffic report. For a site that is live and just needs looking after.
- Success plan, £99 a month. All of that, plus changes as you go, Michael directly rather than a ticket, and half an hour on the phone each month.
- Neither is required. The £500 does not depend on it, and we only raise it near the end of a build if we think it would genuinely help.
The bit that matters
You can take the site and never hear from us again.
Cancel any time, and the site stays yours. It does not come down, it does not get locked, and we hand over every login.
That is not how most monthly website deals work. The usual arrangement is a small setup fee, a direct debit, a minimum term of a year or more, and a site that stops being yours the moment you stop paying. Which is exactly why this is written here rather than buried in terms.
How it works
Four steps, and you're only ever committed to the one you're on
See a free preview
We show you a preview of what your site could look like before you spend a penny. If it's not for you, that's the end of it. No hard feelings.
Start the build
Like the direction? The first half, £250, gets the build under way. We have a quick call about your business so we can write your pages properly.
Site goes live
Your site goes live at your own address about a week after our call. You get up to two rounds of changes to get it just right.
Approve it, or walk away
Approve it and the last £250 completes the £500. If we've not got it right, you don't pay it. The deposit covers the work done and the site is still yours.
Get a quote
Tell us what you do. We'll send back a price and a plan.
Two fields is enough to start. You'll have your price within one working day, and a free one-page plan for your Greenock business alongside it. If the job's bigger than the £500 build, we'll tell you straight and quote it properly.
- A free plan comes with it. One page: where you come up on Google for what you do, who is above you, and the three things costing you calls. Yours to keep, whether you use us or not.
- We reply within one working day. Usually much sooner.
- No obligation, and no chasing. If it's not for you, that's the end of it.
- Rather just talk? Call or text Michael directly on 07508 750017, or message on WhatsApp.
If we emailed you first, the easiest thing is simply to hit reply.
Questions
What Greenock businesses ask before getting a website made
Is Greenock too far out for a Glasgow web designer to bother with?
No, though the distance is worth being straight about. Greenock is about forty minutes from Glasgow's Southside, down the M8 and then the A8 from Langbank. The work itself does not need the drive. One phone call of roughly twenty minutes sets the whole thing up, and everything after that happens by email and phone. If you want to meet in your own unit or in town, we will come out. £500 either way.
Is Inverclyde big enough to build a website for, or should I be chasing Glasgow work?
Inverclyde is small enough that word of mouth still travels, and that is exactly why a website earns its keep. Someone hears your name at a job or through the Chamber, then looks you up before they ring. So we put Inverclyde first, because that is where your name already means something. Then we add a short section listing the wider area you cover, so enquiries from Renfrewshire and Glasgow have somewhere to land. One site, two jobs.
Should I build my website around the cruise ships?
Only if you are genuinely in the passenger trade. The Ocean Terminal season runs from roughly mid April to the end of September, so a site built entirely around it sits idle half the year. For a taxi firm, a gift shop or a guide it is worth a page. For a garage or a joiner it is not. What helps everyone is the plain stuff. Correct opening hours, a map, and a phone number that dials from a mobile.
A lot of my customers are older. Does a website still matter?
Yes, and often more. Older customers research carefully and then phone rather than fill in a form, so we make the number big, tappable and present on every page. Inverclyde also runs a long way, from Wemyss Bay up to Kilmacolm, so your customer is usually deciding at a kitchen table miles from your door. Large text, short pages, obvious contact details. A site that is easy on the eye gets more calls than a clever one.
How much does it cost to get a website made in Greenock?
Across the UK in 2026, freelancers typically charge £800 to £3,000 for a small business website and agencies £2,500 to £10,000. Budget packages advertise from around £299 to £350, but usually add £20 to £30 a month on a minimum term of a year or more, which works out dearer inside two years.
Ours is £500 once, the same price in Greenock as in Glasgow. The only ongoing cost is about £20 a year for the domain, and that goes to the registrar, not to us. See the full price breakdown →
Will my site be set up to rank in Greenock searches?
Yes. Your Greenock location and the areas you cover are written into the pages and the underlying code, so the site says West Blackhall Street, Cathcart Square, Cartsdyke, Overton, Larkfield, Branchton rather than just "Scotland". We also set up or tidy your Google Business Profile, which is what puts you on Google Maps when someone nearby searches for what you do.
Nobody honest will promise you a particular position for £500, and we will not. What we will do is the groundwork properly, which is more than a lot of sites at any price get.
Do you cover the areas around Greenock too?
Yes. Paisley, Johnstone and Renfrew are all covered on exactly the same terms, and each has its own page: Paisley, Johnstone, Renfrew. If your town is not listed, ask anyway, because the answer is nearly always yes. Here is everywhere we cover.
Can you build the whole website for me?
That's the whole idea. We do all of it: the words, the design, the photos, the domain, the hosting and the Google side, then show you the finished site and you tell us what to change.
Your part is a 20 minute phone call and any pictures you've already got on your phone. There's no software for you to learn and nothing for you to write.
Are there any monthly fees?
None that you have to pay. Hosting, the security certificate and backups are included for the first year, and after that the only bill is the domain renewal, about £20 a year, paid directly to the registrar. There's no contract and nothing to cancel.
If you would rather we kept looking after the site there are optional plans from £24.99 a month, but you can take the site and never hear from us again and it will carry on working.
What's the catch with the £500?
There isn't one. We keep the price down by doing one focused job well: a fast, good-looking site that gets you found and gets your phone ringing. £500 is the whole price of the website.
What it doesn't buy is an online shop, a booking system or a custom-built app. Those are real development jobs and cost real money, and if that's what your business needs we'll say so on the call rather than sell you something that won't do it. More questions answered here.