Tattoo studio website design that turns an idea into a consultation

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

No. In England, Wales and Scotland, the Tattooing of Minors Act 1969 makes it an offence to tattoo anyone under 18, and its only exception is a tattoo done for medical reasons by a doctor or someone working under one; a parent's consent is not an exception. Northern Ireland sets the same age in its own 1979 Order. In Scotland, a licensed studio's waiting area must display a notice that tattooing will not be carried out on anyone under 18, and in Wales the consultation form records that the client's age was checked. The Act's defence is reasonable cause to believe the person was 18 or over, which is why studios ask for ID. Put 18 and over, and the ID you accept, above the request form. The Ash & Needle demo does not have this line; a real studio's site should.

Only carefully, and in Wales hardly at all. Across the UK, the CAP Code needs evidence for any claim a reader would take as fact before it is published, so pain free or painless is hard to stand behind. In Wales, the special procedure licence conditions say the tattooist must not supply or apply a topical anaesthetic before, during or after the work, and must not go ahead if a client has used one that the MHRA has not approved and authorised. A Welsh studio's site should not offer numbing as a service and can ask clients to mention anything they plan to use. Elsewhere, say what your studio allows and why. The demo makes no claim about pain.

Enough to send clients back to the right person. In Wales it is a licence condition: aftercare advice must be given out loud and in writing, in plain language, with the contact details of the artist who did the work. We found no national rule setting it in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland, but the same approach works there. The website can say that written instructions come with every session, who to contact with questions, and when to get advice from a healthcare professional. Leave out a healing timeline you could not prove. The demo's aftercare section does this: it points clients to their artist's written instructions and says the site does not replace advice from the artist or a healthcare professional.

It depends where you are, so check with your council first. In the parts of England where a council registers tattooists under the 1982 Act, both you and your premises are registered, and a registered tattooist may sometimes visit people at their request. In London, the borough licenses premises for tattooing as a special treatment. In Wales, each tattooist needs a personal licence and the work must happen in approved premises or an approved vehicle; an event organiser counts as the business, and approval can be granted for up to seven days. Scotland and Northern Ireland run their own licensing and registration. Whatever applies, the website should say where the work happens.

Give the fixed parts and explain the rest. Tattoo prices is searched about 2,900 times a month in the UK and how much is a tattoo about 880, so clients look before they ask. The demo's rate card lists a minimum charge, an hourly rate and a full-day sitting, prices flash per design, and says each custom design is quoted after a conversation about its size, detail and placement. Keep the rates on the site and the ones you quote in the studio the same.

The price follows the number of artists and pages. A single artist with one style suits Starter, from £295. Five pages for the styles, the artists, your story, reviews and directions is Essentials, from £595. A page for each style and a portfolio for every artist is Business, from £995. Each price includes VAT and is agreed in writing first, and the pricing page sets the three side by side.