Web design · Locksmith
Call and WhatsApp on every screen.
Open-in is a locksmith based in Ickenham, trading since 2006 and covering a 25-mile radius across West London, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We replaced their WordPress site with a new build in Astro.
The starting point
Our review of the old WordPress site in May 2026 found area pages that were thin and almost identical, copy repeated across pages, no published prices and no structured data for Google to read.
Scope
Site structure
Open-in's sitemap has 59 addresses: eleven at the top level, then three folders for services, areas and guides, each with an index page of its own.
Emergency lockout, residential, commercial, uPVC door repair, rekey and replacement, and mobile key cutting. The lockout page opens with "Will you have to break my lock to get in?", then covers what happens after the call, how each type of lock is opened and what to do while you wait on the step. Its six steps are marked up as a HowTo.
Each is written around the doors found in that area. Ruislip's covers three common door types, why rekeying comes up there so often, picking before drilling and bringing a nightlatch or deadlock up to an insurer's standard. Its questions include anti-snap cylinders on a semi in Ruislip Manor and timber doors in the village conservation area.
Written for the minutes before someone rings: what to do when locked out, whether a locksmith will drill the lock, spotting a genuine local locksmith, BS3621 and home insurance, anti-snap and smart locks, a uPVC door that won't lock, new locks after a move, a landlord's lock change, licensing and what a locksmith costs in west London.
The price guide has five tables, from emergency lockouts to key cutting. Under them it explains how the fixed price is worked out on the phone, prices three typical jobs from the table and lists what never appears on the invoice. Separate pages hold the Google reviews, word for word, and recent jobs photographed on site.
An about page, the contact page, and the privacy policy and terms.
The build
The homepage has a section headed "Open-in Security Services, In One Paragraph": who runs it, where it's based, the hours, the services and the starting prices in a single block that makes sense on its own. It suits a reader in a hurry, and a self-contained passage like that is the kind AI search and answer engines can quote without rewriting.
All 59 pages are built as plain HTML ahead of time. The phone number and WhatsApp link are written into that HTML, so no script has to run before they appear.
The homepage describes a Locksmith whose service area is a 40km circle around Ickenham, with opening hours, an aggregate rating, eight reviews and four FAQs. The lockout page adds the six-step HowTo, and the price guide holds six OfferCatalogs with 19 priced offers.
For AI tools it describes a single DBS-checked engineer, so the person who answers is the person who attends. It also gives the 2006 start, the 25-mile radius, the BS3621 and TS007 3-star hardware and the fixed price agreed by phone with no call-out fee.
Read open-in.co.uk/llms.txt (opens in a new tab)The screens
Three figures sit beside the headline: a typical response of 30–60 minutes, 24/7 availability and a £0 call-out fee.
The headline and the fixed-price promise come first, then Call and WhatsApp as the first two buttons, and the bar along the bottom keeps both in reach further down.
Design decisions
On a phone, a bar along the bottom of every page holds the number and WhatsApp. Someone locked out never has to scroll back up to find them.
Before any sales copy, a section sets out how quickly they aim to arrive and how they get you in.
The recent-work section is built around photos from their own jobs rather than stock images.
The palette follows their yellow-and-black key logo, with a heavy headline face that stays readable on a small screen.
The trade
A locksmith is a stranger the customer lets into their home, often late at night, and searches for the trade turn up plenty of national call centres that resell the job. So the site has to show who will actually turn up. On Open-in that means one DBS-checked engineer who takes the call and does the work, the same Ickenham base since 2006, and a fixed price agreed on the phone before the van sets off. The published price tables back that up, because a customer can check the figure before they ring.
The Google listing has to hold up as well. Fake listings have plagued this trade for years, and Google's answer has been to lean on video verification, which our guide to Google Business Profile verification walks through. I've written more about locksmith website design and SEO for locksmiths.
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