/for tradesmen who work from the van
You get called or you don't. If a homeowner searches for a plumber, electrician or builder near them and finds a competitor's site instead of yours, that job is gone before your phone even rings. CodeSketch builds hand-coded tradesman websites that answer the questions people ask before they call, so you look like the safer choice, not the gamble.
/what your website actually has to do
See what this looks like in practice in the CodeSketch portfolio before reading on.
A homeowner deciding between three tradesmen judges you on your website before they've read a word of it. A site that loads fast, shows real photos of your work and states your area clearly reads as an established business, not a one-man chancer with a van and a Facebook page.
Most enquiries land in the evening, after the kids are in bed, when you're covered in plaster and not free to talk. A WhatsApp button with the job details pre-filled means the enquiry is sitting there waiting for you at the next tea break, not lost to whoever answered the phone first.
A row of finished jobs, tagged by area, does more convincing than any paragraph about quality workmanship. It shows a homeowner exactly what turns up at their door, and it's the kind of proof a competitor running only a Facebook page can't easily match.
/how it gets built
Every CodeSketch site is written line by line for the business it belongs to. No Wix, no drag-and-drop builder, no page-builder plugin slowing it down on the 4G signal a customer's using on site.
You see the exact design direction and a fixed quote before a single page goes live. If you don't love it at blueprint stage, you walk away owing nothing. No deposit disappearing into a project that never finishes, no surprise invoice halfway through.
A website that's never updated becomes the next liability. CodeSketch's care plans keep the site secure, backed up and current long after launch, the same hand-coded standard, not a subscription you forget you're paying for.
/why trust a one-person studio
No plumber, electrician or builder has had a CodeSketch site yet. That is the honest starting point. What you're actually judging is the work: a hand-coded financial advisory site, a nail salon booking system running three years, and a dated Wix page rebuilt from scratch, all built to the same standard your trade's site would be held to.
A licensed financial advisory firm and a luxury nail salon with a live booking system running for close to three years are both hand-coded CodeSketch builds. Different industries, same discipline: fast, mobile-fit, built to convert a visitor into an enquiry, not just look pretty.
Every message goes to Lance Hancock directly, and gets a reply within one working day over WhatsApp or email. CodeSketch works remotely and quotes in your own currency, so a trade business in Leeds gets the same direct line as one in East London.
asked all the time
No. Tell Lance about your trade, your area and your services over a call or WhatsApp voice note, and the first version of the copy is written from that. You review and correct it, you don't start from a blank page.
You approve a blueprint, the exact layout and design direction, before any full build starts. If it's not right, you walk away at that stage owing nothing. Nobody spends money on a build they haven't agreed to first.
Yes, and it's worth doing. Gas Safe, NICEIC, insurance cover, trade body membership, whatever's real and current goes on the site where people can see it, it's one of the fastest ways to look like the safer choice next to a tradesman with none of it visible.
Yes. You approve a blueprint and a fixed quote before the build starts, so there are no surprises about scope or cost. Build timelines vary by project and aren't quoted as a fixed number, but every message gets a reply within one working day.
Different trade, same approach. CodeSketch also builds for contractors, accountants, law firms and guesthouses. Want to know what a site should cost before you ask anyone? The South African Website Price Index lists what eight named South African studios actually charge.
CodeSketch takes on a maximum of five builds a month, so a slow reply isn't the risk here, an overbooked one is.
A fixed quote, a blueprint you approve first, and a site built by hand for your trade.