Quick answer: Choose a designer who will write the price down, use your real details, and refuse fake reviews. Here that price is £150, £450 or £900. The office is in Coulsdon. Kent is the area we build for, not a row of pretend branches.
Questions worth asking
What is included, what is not, and what happens if you need another page? You should hear hosting, domain, VAT and copy mentioned as items to confirm, because that is how this site already describes them. If a quote cannot separate those, you cannot compare it.
Ask whose photos will be used. If the answer is ‘our usual stock’, ask whether the caption will admit that. A small business is judged on whether the van in the photo is the van that arrives.
What you do not need
You do not need a designer who promises first place for ‘web design Kent’ or for your trade. You do not need a retainer before there is a site. You do not need a workshop in every town.
You do need someone who will set the phone number as a link, put the town in the title only when it belongs there, and connect Search Console on the Business and Growth packages so you can see queries yourself.
A sensible shortlist of one
If the brief is one page, hire for Starter and judge the result on clarity. If you are comparing three designers, give them the same page count. A £150 one-page quote and a £900 twelve-page quote are not rivals.
Read the package page on this site and see if it matches the conversation. If a salesperson describes a different bundle, stop and ask which written package they mean.
After you hire
Send the brief in one batch. The published timings depend on that: a few days, one to two weeks, or two to four weeks. Revision rounds are two on Business and three on Growth. Use them for real edits.
When the site is live, test the form and the phone on your mobile. Then leave the rankings conversation alone for a while. Google’s crawl is not a contract term.
Before you enquire
A good small-business designer will talk about your phone, your towns and your pages before they talk about trends. If the first conversation is a slide of other people’s brands, ask to return to your brief.
You can hire this studio remotely. You do not need to travel to Coulsdon for Starter, Business or Growth.
A small business in Kent is hiring judgement as much as layout. The useful designer asks what you want the phone to do, which towns are real, and which claims you cannot prove. The wrong one offers a rank, a fistful of sample logos, or a monthly fee before a page exists. This studio’s written offer is the three packages, the Coulsdon address, weekday hours, and a refusal to invent reviews. You can hold a proposal against that list. If the proposal adds a retainer or a branch you were not told about, it is not this offer. Send the brief when you want the page count chosen properly, and expect the published timings once the content is actually in.
Frequently asked questions
Can I hire you if I am not in Coulsdon?
Yes. Kent clients are remote. The office address is published so you know where the studio actually is.
Do you show client logos?
Not invented ones. If a real client agrees to be named, that is a separate conversation. These articles do not pretend to be their sites.
What should I send first?
Services, towns, phone number, and whether prices are public. The prepare-to-hire guide lists the rest.
If you want this scoped, call +44 7576 480744 on a weekday between 09:00 and 17:00, or use the contact form. Say the town and the package you think fits. The reply is a fixed design price. Hosting, the domain, VAT and content writing remain items to confirm before launch, and no search ranking is included in the fee.
Related reading: Prepare the brief Written prices Start a conversation.