You found a free template for your trade that already looks finished, and you wonder if it is really free. No: a business site on Wix or Squarespace runs $18-$49 a month on their common yearly plans, and you still write every page yourself. Titan builds yours free to see, then $197 today (first week of hosting free), $97/month starts one week later, 30-day guarantee.
Type your business name and the Titan Assistant builds your site in 10-15 minutes. Free to look, no card.
The free template is real. On Wix you can pick one and publish it without paying, and it will live at an address like username.wixsite.com/sitename. What you cannot do on the free plan is connect your own domain or remove the Wix branding; Wix sells those as part of its paid plans. So a free template is free to try and paid to use as a business.
That is a fair deal, and it is how the builders make their money. Just count all of it. The template is free, the plan that makes it look like a real business is a monthly bill, and the work of turning a template into your site is yours.
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A contractor template arrives with stock photos, sample text and placeholder services. Before it can earn a call, someone has to:
Each of those jobs is small. Together they add up to real time for someone who has never built a site, and that time comes out of the busy months, because that is when you notice you need more calls. When the time runs out, a site can stop half-way: the sample text is still on the services page, the phone number is a picture, and nothing has changed since it went up.
A homeowner who lands on a half-finished site may wonder whether you are still in business.
The most popular contractor templates are popular for a reason, and that is also the problem. The same layout, the same hero photo of a house, the same three service boxes turn up on sites across the country. A homeowner comparing three remodelers in one afternoon can end up looking at three copies of one design, and nothing tells them which crew is which.
What separates you is not the template. It is your services in your words, your own job photos, your towns and your reviews. That content is the real work in any website, free or not.
Here is what each route costs in cash, read from each source on November 6, 2026. The hours column is the part no price list shows.
| Route | Cash | Who does the hours |
|---|---|---|
| Free template on Wix | Nothing, on the builder's address with its branding | You |
| Template on a Wix or Squarespace plan | $18-$49 a month | You |
| A freelancer from Upwork | $15-$30 an hour | The freelancer, billed; you supply words and photos |
| An agency, basic site (GoodFirms) | $1,000-$3,000 | The agency; you review and wait |
| Titan Web Design | $197 today (first week of hosting free), $97/month starts one week later, 30-day guarantee. | The Titan Assistant; you look and decide |
Sometimes it is. If you are just starting out, sell one or two services, have more evenings than jobs and like this kind of work, a free template on a builder is a sensible first site. You will learn what you want, and you can move later.
It is the wrong call when you are busy, when you sell many services, or when your work changes with the seasons. A deck and fence builder whose calls swing between spring and fall needs a site that keeps up without eating Sundays.
Here is where the money is with Titan. The demo is free: the Titan Assistant builds a whole contractor site from your Google listing in 10-15 minutes, with your services, your towns and a tappable number, and you look at it with no card. Paying is only for making it your live site under your own name: $197 today (first week of hosting free), $97/month starts one week later, 30-day guarantee.
That plan covers hosting, your domain name, the security certificate, backups and 50 plain-English edits a month. The difference from a free template is who does the hours, not whether the site costs money. The websites for contractors page lists every trade we build for, and the general contractor website design page shows a finished example.
Open the template's live preview on your phone, not your computer, and do what a homeowner would. Try to call from the top of the page with your thumb. Count how many services it has room for, and whether each one can get its own section. Find the quote form and send yourself a test. Check what the free plan's address will look like on your truck.
If it passes, the template is a fine start and the rest is your time. If it fails on the phone, no amount of evenings will fix the bones.
Titan fits a contractor who likes the idea of a free template but not the weekends it takes, and who wants to see a finished site with their own services on it before paying anything.
Titan does not fit an owner who enjoys building the site, wants full control of every pixel, or needs features a template site does not have, such as a customer portal or a members area. For the first two, a free template on a builder is the right tool; for the last, a developer.
Yes, and many contractors start that way. On Wix's free plan the site lives on a Wix address and carries Wix branding, so most businesses move to a paid plan to use their own domain. Wix and Squarespace common plans run $18-$49 a month, billed yearly.
The big builders are general tools for every kind of business; Wix has a free plan that keeps a Wix address and branding, and Squarespace sells paid plans. Whatever template you pick, you still write the services, add the photos and set up the quote form yourself.
Yes. The full demo site is built in about 10-15 minutes and costs nothing to see, with no card. You only pay if you want it live under your own name.
Type your business name and see your own site, free, before you decide anything.
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