Prestige Tiling needed a website that did their work justice. They are an established wall and floor tiling specialist covering Burgess Hill and the surrounding areas, with more than 25 years’ experience, bathrooms, wet rooms, kitchens, patterned floors and feature walls. They had tried the AI-driven site builders first, Wix and Squarespace, and like a lot of tradespeople found the templates and the “let AI build it for you” promises never quite produced a site that looked professional. For a tiler that matters more than most, because the whole job is about finish and detail. The live site is now at prestigetilingsussex.co.uk.
Why did the AI site builders not work for a tiler?
Wix and Squarespace are sold on the idea that anyone can build a smart site in an afternoon. In practice, a busy tradesperson gets a generic template, a pile of settings, and a result that looks like every other DIY site, no matter how good the underlying work is. You end up spending evenings fighting the editor instead of laying tile, and the thing you publish still does not feel like a professional business.
For a tiling company that is a real problem. Tiling is a visual trade. Someone choosing who to trust with their bathroom or kitchen wants to see clean lines, neat grout, well set-out floors and beautifully finished rooms. A template that squashes the photos, loads slowly on a phone or looks amateur quietly undoes the very thing the business is best at.
Prestige Tiling had the skill, the 25 years behind them and the photos. What they did not have was a site that carried all of it.
What did we build instead?
A fast, professional multi-page site that lets the work do the talking and makes it easy to get a quote. Because Prestige had real depth to show, this was not a single page but a proper site with room for it.
- A gallery front and centre. The finished jobs are the strongest sales tool a tiler has, so we gave the photography a dedicated space to breathe rather than cramming it into a stock layout.
- A clear services section covering bathrooms, wet rooms, kitchens, patterned floors and feature walls, written the way people actually search.
- An areas page for Burgess Hill and the surrounding patch, so local searches find them and the enquiries are for jobs worth doing.
- The proof that reassures, their Checkatrade record, five-star Google reviews, being fully insured and offering free quotes, given a clear home on the page.
- Fast on a phone, because most people looking for a tiler are searching and comparing on a mobile, often in the room they want tiled.
- Easy contact, with a tap-to-call number and a free-quote request, so a visitor who likes the work can act in one tap.
The same thinking sits behind our websites for tradespeople and the way we approach web design across Sussex. Fast, professional, and built to turn a look into an enquiry.
Why not just keep tinkering with Wix?
Because the time cost is real and the result rarely gets there. The appeal of the AI builders is “cheap and quick”, but a half-finished site that looks amateur costs a trade far more in lost enquiries than it ever saves in monthly fees. People do judge a tiler by their website, fairly or not, and a firm with 25 years’ experience should not look like a weekend DIY project online.
With Page Forge there is nothing to build or maintain. We write the words, design it in a look that suits the business, connect the domain, and handle hosting, SSL and updates. If a service or a photo needs changing, they tell us and we do it. Our pricing is on the pricing page in the open, with no surprises.
Does a professional site actually help a tiler get found?
Search engines and AI assistants both favour pages that load quickly and state the facts plainly: what you do, where you work and how to get in touch. A fast, well-built tiling site with real photos, clear services and named areas gives Google and ChatGPT something true and useful to show, which a slow, generic template does not.
Rankings are never guaranteed, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can promise is a site that looks the part, works properly on a phone and is set up to be found, which is the foundation everything else builds on.
Frequently asked questions
Can you take over a site that was started on Wix or Squarespace?
Yes. A lot of our tradespeople come to us after trying an AI site builder and stalling. We do not try to rescue the old build; we replace it with a fast, professional site and point the domain at it, so the switch is clean.
Do you build multi-page sites as well as one-pagers?
Yes. A sole trader who just needs the phone to ring is often best served by a fast one-page site, but a firm like Prestige, with a real body of work and several services to show, benefits from a proper multi-page site with a gallery. We build whichever fits the business.
How long does it take to go live?
It depends on the size of the site, but most projects go live within a couple of weeks once we have your details, services and photos of your work.
Do I need to know anything technical?
No. That is the point. You stay on the tools and we handle the site, the domain, the hosting and any changes.
Skilled work deserves a site that shows it. Now it has one.