Essential
£1,000
- Up to 5 pages
- A landing page for ads or a campaign
- Built for a phone first
- Set up for Google: titles, sitemap, structured data
- Contact or booking form
- Live in 14 days
Fixed prices, quoted upfront
Three packages. You know the full number before any work starts, and it does not change halfway through.
A lot of web design quotes are vague on purpose, because a vague quote is easier to grow later. I would rather give you the number now. Three things move it: how many pages you need, whether you want to edit the site yourself, and whether anything has to be custom built. Meetings, questions and email threads are not billed, and there is no account manager to mark the price up, because there is not one.
Elevate
Most popular£2,500
- Up to 10 pages
- A content system so you can edit the site yourself
- Pages laid out to turn visitors into enquiries
- Analytics set up so you can see what people do
- Deeper SEO and speed work
- Live in 21 days
Enterprise
£5k+
- As many pages as the project needs
- Bookings, payments, logins, or a tie-in with software you already run
- Custom features built from scratch
- Motion and interaction where it earns its place
- First call on my time when you need me
- Planning help across the whole build, not just the design
- Analytics, event tracking and structured data done thoroughly
Which one fits
Most people are choosing between the first two, and the deciding question is usually simpler than they expect.
Essential suits a business that needs to be online properly and easy to find: what you offer, the area you cover, evidence you are good at it, and a simple way to make contact. A plumber, a carpenter, a mobile mechanic, a salon. Five pages covers it, and it is live in about two weeks.
Elevate is the one to pick if you want to change the site yourself without calling me each time. It adds a content management system, room for more pages as you grow, and analytics so you can see what visitors do once they land. If you plan to run ads to the site, this is usually where to start.
Enterprise is for when the site has to do a job rather than describe one: bookings, payments, customer accounts, or joining up with software you already run. If you are not sure you need it, you almost certainly do not, and I will tell you so.
What every build includes
These are not upgrades. They are in all three packages, because a website without them is not finished.
- 01
A design made for your business
Not a theme with your logo dropped into it. I look at what you sell and who buys it, then design around that.
- 02
Built for a phone first
Most people who find a local business are on a phone, often on a patchy signal. That is the version I build for, then scale up to desktop.
- 03
Set up properly for Google
Page titles, descriptions, headings, image alt text, a sitemap and structured data, all done at build time rather than sold back to you later.
- 04
A way for people to reach you
A contact form that emails you directly, plus click-to-call and WhatsApp if you want them. The point of the site is the enquiry.
- 05
Your own domain and an SSL certificate
The padlock in the browser bar, and an address that belongs to you rather than sitting on someone else's platform.
- 06
30 days of free tweaks after launch
Things always look different once a site is live. For the first month, small changes are on me.
What it costs to keep running
The part most quotes leave out until after you have signed.
A website is not quite a one-off purchase. Two costs carry on after launch, and you should know both before you commit. Your domain and hosting come to roughly £100 to £150 a year between them. You can arrange those yourself and I will tell you what to buy, or I can manage them for you.
The other is the optional care plan at £75/month, covering hosting, security and software updates, uptime monitoring, small content edits and a monthly performance check. It is there so the site does not slide backwards, which is what happens to most small business websites about eighteen months in. It is optional, you can cancel whenever you want, and you can read exactly what is covered before deciding.
How the money works
You pay a deposit to book the work in, and the balance when the site goes live. You are never paying the full amount for something you have not seen yet. For larger projects we can split it across more stages so the payments track the progress.
The price I quote is the price you pay. If halfway through you decide you want something that was not in the original brief, I will tell you what it costs before I build it, and you can say no. What will not happen is an invoice at the end with things on it you did not agree to. That is the most common complaint I hear about previous developers, and avoiding it is not complicated.
What happens after launch
For the first 30 days, small changes are free. Wording you want to adjust, a photo you would rather swap, a phone number that changed. Just message me. After that, minor edits are covered by the care plan if you are on one, and anything larger gets quoted as its own piece of work.
The more important part is that I am still here. You are not handed to a support desk when the invoice clears. The person who answers is the person who built it, which means you never have to explain your own website to a stranger.
Questions about cost
Not sure which one you need?
Tell me what the business does and roughly what you want the site to achieve. I will tell you which package fits, even if it is the cheapest one.