Construction Website Design - Proof You Can Step Through

Laptop screen showing the homepage of a builder website built in Webflow for a West Sussex family firm

A Custom Webflow Site for a Family Building Firm

LRC Builders is a family firm in Lancing with over forty years of extensions, brickwork and renovations behind them, and no website to show for it. I built them a Webflow site on Client-First where every job can be viewed before, during and after.

  • ‍Before, during and after slider - see the job, not just the ending.‍
  • Five CMS collections - Leigh updates every one himself.‍
  • Filterable project library - browse by trade, load more.‍
  • Eleven CMS pages from two templates - all separately rankable.‍
  • Floating WhatsApp button - one tap to message from any page.‍
  • Google Analytics 4 - shows which trade brings the calls.‍
  • GSAP scroll animations - motion that guides, not decorates.
Phone mockup of a builder website with a floating WhatsApp button and quote form
Iphone mockup of a filterable project library on a Webflow website for a building firm
Trades & Crafts

Nobody Doubts the Finish, They Doubt the Middle

Forty years of work existed only as word of mouth. Homeowners letting a builder into their house are not worried about the final photograph, they are worried about the six weeks before it, so the site shows those weeks.

Results

Forty years that can finally be found

A firm that existed only through referral now has eleven separately rankable pages covering five trades and three towns. Somebody searching for a builder in Lancing can reach LRC without knowing the name first, which four decades of word of mouth could never do.

Proof that survives a sceptical homeowner

The before, during and after view answers the question homeowners actually have, which is what the job looks like while it is happening. A prepared sub-base and a half-built chimney do more for trust than a finished room, because anybody can photograph a finished room.

A website the owner keeps current

New jobs go up the week they finish, with photographs, trade and town, and land on the homepage, the library, the category page and the service page at the same time. Nothing about keeping the site current depends on me being available.
Common questions

Good to know

How do you show before and after photos on a Webflow website?

Webflow has no native before and after component, so it is built with CMS image fields and a small piece of custom code. On the LRC Builders site each project holds up to three photographs, before, during and after, and the visitor switches between them in one fixed frame rather than scrolling through three separate images. Where a project has no middle photograph, that button hides itself automatically.

What should a builder’s website include?

Photographs of real jobs rather than stock imagery, the towns covered stated in plain text, a way to get in touch that is not only a form, and separate pages for each trade so local searches land somewhere relevant. Published prices matter less for building work than for a fixed-price trade, because every job is quoted, but the service area and the proof of work are not optional.

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