To a stranger,no website is a red flag. Renfrew websites,all in for £500
Five pages of proper web design for your Renfrew business: the joiners, garages, salons and small firms working between the High Street and Braehead.
- £500once, fixed
- No contractnothing to cancel
- You own itsite and domain
Renfrew
Websites for the Renfrew 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.
Renfrew is a royal burgh and still runs on its own High Street. The Town Hall, the pond in Robertson Park, the shops and cafes along Hairst Street, the Victory Baths on Inchinnan Road. Braehead sits at the far end of the town, and the new bridge across the Clyde to Yoker opened in May 2025.
A Renfrew business is squeezed from two sides. Braehead takes the browsing, and Glasgow is ten minutes up the road. So when somebody does go looking for a local plumber or a local nursery, that search is the whole decision. Nothing comes back with your name on it, and they call a stranger instead.
We are on Glasgow's Southside, roughly twenty minutes away past Hillington on the M8. Renfrew is an easy run, so meeting face to face is no bother if you would prefer that. Most people find they do not need to. The website is £500 whether we sit down together or never do.
- The High Street and Hairst Street. Barbers, bakers, takeaways and the shops around the Town Hall.
- Moorpark and Dean Park. Trades working out of a van and a driveway.
- Kirklandneuk and Blythswood. Garages, plant hire and small units running towards Inchinnan.
- Braehead and the riverside. Newer flats and the services that follow them, from gyms to cleaners.
- Inchinnan, Erskine and Paisley. All a few minutes away, all treated the same.
Nearby, and the same £500
Web design Paisley
RenfrewshireThe biggest town in Scotland, with a proper high street to compete on.
Web design Greenock
InverclydeInverclyde's main town, spread along the water and climbing the hill behind it.
Web design Clydebank
West DunbartonshireShipyard town turned shopping town, from Kilbowie Road out to Faifley.
Web design Johnstone
RenfrewshireA cotton mill town built around two squares, with the bandstand still in Houstoun Square.
Being found in Renfrew
Renfrew spending drifts, and so do searches
We look after Renfrew from Dean Park and Moorpark through Blythswood and Newmains to Arkleston, and we cross to Inchinnan and over the bridge to Yoker.
Renfrew has a shopping centre on its doorstep at Braehead and a city a short drive up the road, which means local spending drifts outward by default. A resident wanting a service often thinks of Braehead or Glasgow first, and searches accordingly. Renfrew's own High Street businesses then have to win back custom from people who live barely a mile away.
The bridge to Yoker changed the shape of that. Since it opened, Renfrew businesses have a real north bank catchment for the first time in years, and Clydebank customers have a reason to come south. Not many local sites mention it. Saying you cover both sides of the river, and how long it takes you to get there, is a point most sites still leave out.
What Renfrew businesses get wrong online
Letting Braehead do your describing for you.
CommonSaying you are near Braehead tells a customer where the car park is, not what you do. Renfrew's own street names, Hairst Street or Paisley Road, tell them you are in the town rather than at the retail park.
No mention of the new bridge or the north side.
CommonCustom now moves both ways across the river. A site that only lists Renfrew and Paisley reads as though you would not cross to Yoker or Clydebank, so nobody up there asks.
A map pin dropped roughly in the right place.
CommonRenfrew has industrial estates, the airport edge and housing all packed close together. A pin sitting in the wrong one sends people to Inchinnan or the retail park, and some of them do not ring to check.
Renfrew in detail
The year the river stopped being a wall
Renfrew's map changed in May 2025, and a town that used to end at the water now has traffic passing straight through it.
Renfrew Bridge opened to traffic at midday on 9 May 2025, the first opening road bridge ever built across the Clyde, carrying two lanes plus a walking and cycling route between Meadowside Street and Dock Street in Yoker. At the end of that same month the Renfrew to Yoker ferry made its final crossing and stopped for good, the last of the Clyde ferries to go. Renfrew spent two centuries as the end of the road with a boat at the bottom of it. It is now a route to somewhere.
The other fact about trading here is that one of the west of Scotland's major shopping and leisure destinations sits inside the town boundary. Braehead Shopping Centre on Kings Inch Road, bought by Frasers Group in 2025, has Braehead Arena, the ice rink and the XSite complex with its indoor ski slope alongside it, and a car park that costs nothing. It is a few minutes by car from the High Street. Every independent in Renfrew is quietly competing with a mall that shares its address.
Away from both of those, Renfrew works for a living. Westway on Porterfield Road is an enclosed industrial park of multi let blocks, reached off the main road in from the M8. The advanced manufacturing district out towards Inchinnan has brought the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland and the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in beside Glasgow Airport. In the middle of it all the Town Hall clock tower still stands over Hairst Street, with the registrar, the function halls and the community museum inside it.
- Renfrew High Street and Hairst Street. Barbers, bakers, salons, opticians, takeaways and cafes trading under the Town Hall clock, a short drive from a mall with free parking. The website has to give somebody a reason to stop here instead: named staff, a booking link, prices for the common jobs, and hours that hold up on a Sunday.
- Braehead and Kings Inch Road. Kiosks, small units, and the cleaners, caterers, sign firms and maintenance trades that work around the centre and the arena. Addresses here get written as Renfrew by some listings and Glasgow by others, which loses deliveries. Choose one, repeat it everywhere, and say which entrance and car park to aim for.
- Meadowside Street and the bridge approach. The riverside end of the town is on a through route for the first time, with Yoker and Clydebank drivers now arriving from the north bank. Anything on that side, from a garage to a gym to a coffee stop, should name the crossing, because a Clydebank searcher does not yet think of Renfrew as near.
- Dean Park, Moorpark and Ferry Village. Residential Renfrew, running from post war terraces through to the newer flats looking over the Clyde. Home trades work these streets constantly: roofers, sparks, plasterers, cleaners, gardeners. Naming the actual estates, and showing a job finished in each, does more than a page that only says Renfrewshire.
- Westway on Porterfield Road. A large enclosed industrial park sits behind one gated entrance off the road in from the M8, holding fabricators, logistics operators, trade counters and engineering suppliers. Buyers look you up before committing and hauliers need to know which block. One page stating what you handle, in what sizes, and where in the park you are fixes both.
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 Renfrew 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 Renfrew businesses ask before getting a website made
Do you actually cover Renfrew, or just Glasgow?
Renfrew properly, from the High Street out to Braehead and Inchinnan. It is about twenty minutes from Glasgow's Southside past Hillington, so it is a short run. The whole job starts with one phone call of roughly twenty minutes. Everything after that is email and phone, at times that suit you. If you would rather meet in person we will drive out, and it costs the same £500 either way.
Everybody drives to Braehead. Can a website really pull people back to the High Street?
Not on its own, and we would rather not pretend otherwise. What it can do is win the searches a shopping centre cannot answer. A shopping centre cannot give somebody a same day repair, a plumber at teatime, a barber who already knows their head or a cake made for Saturday. Those get searched for by trade and by nearness, and that is where a proper local site beats a chain's page. So we build around what you do that a mall does not, and make ringing or booking you a single tap.
Since the bridge opened I am getting people from Yoker and Clydebank. Should the site say so?
Yes, and in plain words rather than a list. Somebody in Clydebank has spent their whole life thinking of Renfrew as the other side of the water, so a line explaining that you are minutes from the bridge does real work. We put the crossing into the areas you cover, mention it beside the directions, and add it to the service area on your Google Business Profile. That is usually enough for people to start counting you as local.
Some of my listings say Renfrew and some say Glasgow. Which should the website use?
Whichever version Royal Mail holds for your postcode, and then that one everywhere without exception. Around Kings Inch Road the two get used interchangeably, and every spare variant splits your reviews and confuses your listing. We set the website, the Google Business Profile, the invoices and the social accounts to one identical address block. If Glasgow customers matter, the answer is a line of copy saying you cover Glasgow, never a second address.
How much does it cost to get a website made in Renfrew?
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 Renfrew 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 Renfrew searches?
Yes. Your Renfrew location and the areas you cover are written into the pages and the underlying code, so the site says High Street, Hairst Street, Moorpark, Dean Park, Kirklandneuk, Newmains 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 Renfrew too?
Yes. Paisley, Greenock, Clydebank and Johnstone are all covered on exactly the same terms, and each has its own page: Paisley, Greenock, Clydebank, Johnstone. 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.