Start With a Plain Static Site

✓ How To Do It

1. Make a folder named after the business. Inside it, make a file called index.html. This is your home page.
2. Open the file in any plain text editor. Type a page title, one heading, one short paragraph and your phone number. Save it.
3. Double click the file. Your browser opens it. You just built a page.
4. Add one file per service, like brake-repair.html or water-heaters.html. Give each one its own heading and its own short paragraph, written for that job.
5. Make a folder called images. Put your real photos in it. Shrink each photo to about 1600 pixels wide before you add it.
6. Pick a host. Several hosts serve a plain folder for free. Cloudflare and Netlify both have free plans, so read each plan page for the current limits before you rely on one. Upload the folder to it.
7. Point your own domain at the host. The host shows you the exact record to add at your domain registrar.
8. Open the live address on your phone. Compare it to the folder on your computer. They must match before you change anything else.
9. Save a copy of the folder somewhere else before each big edit. Keep the last three copies and delete the rest.