Small business websites you can actually open
Not a gallery of templates. Every card below is a live site in a frame, open it, click it, look at it on a phone.
Every one of these is a real business
Not templates and not screenshots, each card is the live site in a frame, so what you see is what it looks like right now. Tap one to open it full size, on a desk and on a phone.
Every site here was built from a Google Business Profile in about a minute, then edited by the person who runs the place.
Almost every list of "website examples" is a screenshot of a demo that no business has ever run, sold by whoever is publishing the list. These are real businesses, at their real addresses, and the frame you open is the site as it is right now.
What is worth noticing is not the colours. It is that no two of these were laid out by hand. Each one was built from a Google Business Profile, the photographs, the hours, the address, the rating, the reviews, and then corrected by the person who runs the place. That is why a café with four photographs and a shop with forty both look deliberate: the arrangement follows what there is, so a thin business does not get a page with holes in it and a rich one does not get a page that hides half of what it has.
The live site, in a frame
Nothing here is a picture of a website. Each card mounts the site itself when it scrolls into view, and opening one gives you the whole thing at full size with a desk-and-phone switch, so you can check the thing everybody forgets to check, which is what it does at 390 pixels wide.
That also means none of it can go stale. A screenshot is a file somebody has to remember to regenerate, and a shop window full of last quarter's screenshots is worse than an empty one.
Same builder, different businesses
Every site here came out of the same engine, and they do not look alike. The theme is chosen from the photographs, a model looks at ten of them and decides the colour, the light and which one opens the page, so a dark wine bar and a white bakery are not the same page in two skins.
The bands differ for the same reason. A restaurant leads with a menu, a salon with booking, a shop with a catalogue: the arrangement follows the content, not a template somebody picked.
What every one of them has
- A real address, reachable by anyone
- The business's own photographs, graded and cropped
- Opening hours and a map, off the Google listing
- Their own Google rating and reviews, as proof
- A phone that works, on a phone
Your photographs, already sorted
Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.
What it looks like when it is live
Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.
Questions
Are these real businesses or demos?
Real, all of them. Each card opens the live site at its own address, the same page a customer of theirs would land on. Nothing here is a mock-up, and none of it is content we wrote for a screenshot.
How long did each of these take to build?
The first version is about a minute, and then an evening of correcting. The measured figures and what happens in each part are on how long a website takes.
Can I get my business on this page?
Yes, build the site first and ask us afterwards. Every site here was picked by hand, which is the only reason the page is worth looking at. Search your business name and see what comes out.
Why do some have a shop and others do not?
Because the businesses differ. Every band is switchable, a menu, a shop, a booking calendar, a gallery, and a site only carries the ones its owner turned on. What goes on a small business website is the short answer to which ones you need.
Did anyone write the words on these sites?
The first draft is written from the listing and about a hundred of the business's own reviews, and then the owner edits it on the page. What you are reading on any of these is what its owner was happy to leave there.
What does a site like this cost?
Free to build and free to keep on a name.clay.site address with a small badge in the footer. Your own domain and the badge off is the paid plan, what free covers and what it does not.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.