Guildford · barbers · from £500
Someone already on the High Street looks you up on their phone. They want the price of a skin fade, whether you take walk-ins, and a couple of photos of the work — then a button that actually does something.
A barber site has a short job: show the menu of cuts, how to book or walk in, where the chair is, and enough of the work that a first-time visitor can tell the style matches what they want. If those answers live only on Instagram, they vanish the moment the app is closed.
Guildford traffic is a mix of lunch-hour walk-ins and people coming in from the villages along the A3. The page has to load on a pavement, in one hand, without a desktop layout that pinches on a small screen.
I design and build the public site and a private page so you can change photos, prices and hours yourself. You send a brief; I reply with a free homepage mock-up and a fixed written quote. Nothing is payable until you accept it.
These are the questions people type or tap before they sit down. The site should answer them without a phone call.
Say which you offer, and what Saturday usually looks like. A short note beats a vague “contact us” if someone is already in town.
Skin fade, beard, hot towel, kids’ cuts — whatever you actually sell. Visitors compare this before they commit, and they will leave if it is only in a story.
Crops of the cut are enough. You do not need faces on the site. Fresh photos you can swap yourself keep the page honest as the work changes.
A pin, the street, and the nearest car park or station. People already know Guildford; they need the last two minutes of the journey.
Link the Google profile you already have so new reviews stay current, next to a price list and gallery you can keep up to date.
Guildford is Surrey’s county town. The High Street is cobbled and pedestrian, with Tunsgate and North Street a short walk away, so a lot of first visits start with a Maps pin and a thirty-second look at the website.
The town mixes students from the university, commuters on the Waterloo line, and people driving in from the Hog’s Back and the A3. That is a phone-first audience: they are often already nearby, deciding between two chairs.
You keep the proof: your own cut photos and the Google profile you already have. Prices, hours and photos sit on a page you can update yourself, so a walk-in already on the High Street sees what you actually charge today.
If you mainly need a homepage with a price list, a gallery and a way to get in touch, Launch from £500 is usually the starting point. Extra public pages — a dedicated gallery, a services list, or more room to explain how bookings work — sit in a higher band. The written quote says which band, and which admin tools are in. I do not lock a particular tool to a particular package.
Launch from £500
A public website you can update yourself.
Scale £1,495
More pages, plus more of the private admin you choose after we talk.
Connect £2,395
A wider admin set when the day-to-day needs more than one extra tool.
Operate £3,295
Another step up when several parts of the business need to live in one login.
Automate £4,145
The fullest website band when you want more of the admin working together.
Scale is £1,495, Connect £2,395, Operate £3,295 and Automate £4,145. You choose the pages and the private admin after we talk. The quote names what is included. Nothing is payable until you accept it.
More on what a business website includes is on the business websites page.
They can, if that is in the quote. Some barbers only need a clear “walk-ins welcome” note and a number or form; others want a booking request on the site. Say which you already use and I will fit the build around that, not the other way around.
No. Close crops of the cut, the shop front, or the chair are enough. If you already have photos you are allowed to use, we can place those; if not, we start with what you have and you add more from the private admin later.
It should be on the homepage, readable on a phone, with the same figures you quote in the shop. That is the page people open while they are already on North Street or walking up from the station.
Three short questions, no account needed. I reply with a free mock-up and a fixed written quote — usually within one working day.