Understand the business
Establish what the website needs to represent.
We begin with a direct conversation about the business as it operates today: the work you want, the services you provide, the areas you cover, how enquiries arrive and what a homeowner commonly needs to know before contacting you.
We also identify genuine proof that may be suitable for publication, the source and usage rights for supplied media, and any restrictions around customer details or project imagery. Mentioning or supplying an item does not guarantee publication: proof must be genuine, current where relevant, attributable and supportable.
Initial discovery topics
- Core and secondary roofing services.
- Customer and property types, service geography and company history.
- Current referral, phone, email, Facebook and directory journeys.
- Logo, existing brand assets and social profiles.
- Genuine job and before-and-after photographs, including permission or licence to use them.
- Real project details, customer reviews and testimonials approved for publication.
- Genuine memberships, trade-body affiliations, manufacturer relationships, accreditations, guarantees, warranties, insurance and business credentials.
- Owner or team information, if the business wants it shown.
- Contact details, opening/contact preferences and preferred enquiry routes.
- Common homeowner questions and genuine points of difference.
- Useful wording from the client’s own website, leaflets, Facebook material or other content.
- What the client likes, dislikes, wants included or wants approached differently.
- Practical constraints, priorities, decision-makers and the boundaries of the agreed scope.
Discovery should never ask for account passwords or private authentication credentials. If source material is incomplete, identify the gaps and plan accurate copy or new photography; do not fill them by inventing proof, history, projects or claims, or by copying a competitor.