Xzist Digital Web design · UK construction

Websites for construction firms that actually win work.

Fast, clear, written like a human. Built to last on infrastructure you can hand to anyone.

Most construction websites are either ten-year-old WordPress brochures with stock photos of hard hats, or expensive design-shop builds that look beautiful and never get updated. I build the version in the middle — the one that tells a customer in 30 seconds what you do, who you do it for, and why they should ring you.

Most construction websites lose work before the phone rings.

The enquiry that didn't come in is the hardest one to measure. A site that loads slowly on a phone, a homepage that buries the sectors you actually cover, a "services" page that reads like it was written by a marketing agency that's never been on site — each one quietly costs you jobs you'd have been right for.

I build construction websites the way I build construction software: by spending time with how the work actually comes in, what customers ask before they award, and what the office team needs to keep current after launch. The result is a site that earns its place — not a portfolio piece.

What you get

Three things, done properly.

Every site I build leads with the same three things. The detail changes with the business; the standard doesn't.

01 · Fast

Loads instantly. Everywhere.

Static or server-rendered, optimised images, no bloated theme. The pages a contractor opens in a van on 4G feel as fast as the ones a procurement manager opens in their office. Google's Core Web Vitals all green by default, not as an upgrade.

02 · Clear

Says what you do in one sentence.

Copy written like a human, not a marketing committee. Sectors and services laid out the way a buyer searches for them. Case studies that lead with the problem and the result, not the carousel of glossy photos. If someone lands on your homepage, they should know within 10 seconds whether they're in the right place.

03 · Yours

You own everything. Forever.

Code in your GitHub. Domain in your name. Hosting on your account. No proprietary builder you'll be locked into paying forever, no "design subscription" that turns into a hostage situation when you want to leave. Any competent developer can pick it up — even if I get hit by a bus.

Recent build — Civil engineering & fencing

Land Wide UK — rebuilt to reflect the scale of work being delivered.

The brief

Land Wide UK had grown from a small fencing operation into a serious civil engineering and fencing contractor working across infrastructure and renewable energy. The existing website hadn't kept up. The branding felt dated, the photography didn't represent the work, and the structure didn't make it easy for procurement teams to find what they needed.

What I built

A redeveloped brand and a rebuilt website at landwideuk.co.uk — structured around the sectors Land Wide actually serves, with case studies leading on outcomes, faster page loads, mobile-first layout, and a clear enquiry path on every page.

The website sat alongside the bespoke internal platform I'd built for the operations side of the business, so the brand, the customer-facing site, and the day-to-day tooling all spoke the same visual language — even though three different audiences see them.

What changed

Enquiry quality improved — the procurement-side conversations the new site was designed to invite started arriving. Internally, the team had a site they were happy to send a client to instead of explaining around it on the phone.

Read the full Land Wide UK case study →

How it works

Four weeks, usually.

Most construction websites I build go live within four to eight weeks. The shape of an engagement looks the same every time.

  1. 01 · Talk

    A proper conversation, not a brief template.

    I want to understand the work you actually win, the customers you actually want more of, and the things competitors get wrong. By the end you'll know the structure, the tone, and roughly what the site needs to do. No 40-page brief to fill in.

  2. 02 · Shape

    Wireframes and copy first. Pretty bits last.

    We agree the pages, the order, the words, and the enquiry path before anyone picks a font. Most failed website projects fail at this step because it gets skipped. We don't skip it.

  3. 03 · Build

    You see real pages in your browser, not Figma.

    I build the live site in short cycles and share a private preview URL. You see real pages on real devices, not flat mockups. Feedback in plain English — "the second paragraph's too long" — not a sticky-note review session.

  4. 04 · Live

    We launch. I stick around.

    We push it live, point the domain, set up analytics, and you're trading. After that, light-touch monthly support — copy edits, new case studies, new sectors when the business adds them. Or take the keys and run it yourself. Either is fine.

In practice

Honest terms. No surprises.

A construction website shouldn't be expensive to keep, complicated to run, or impossible to leave behind.

4–8 weeks

From kickoff to a live, indexed site you can hand to a customer.

Flat fee

A fixed build cost agreed up front. No per-page surprises, no scope-creep invoices.

No lock-in

Hosting and support are month-to-month. Cancel and take the codebase any time.

UK-based

Designed, built, and supported from Suffolk. One person on every call.

Start a conversation

Send me the URL. I'll tell you what I'd change.

If you've got an existing site, share the link and the one or two things you wish it did better. If you don't have one yet, tell me about the firm and the customers you want it to reach. Either way, the first reply will be useful.

You'll hear back the same working day.