Website Design

Five ways to get a website, priced so the difference is visible. The cheapest is a builder we set up and hand to you. The most expensive is a custom build with a payment processor behind it. Most businesses need the one in the middle.

Every tier is hand written HTML, CSS and JavaScript rather than a page builder, which is why the sites load in under a second and pass a Core Web Vitals assessment. A page builder puts about 900 of its own references into a home page and charges you the load time for them.

What it costs

• Tier 0 (Self-Made)Free

  We set up a drag and drop website builder for you; no coding required.

• Tier 1 (Starter)$500

  Static one-page site; ideal for portfolios & small businesses.

• Tier 2 (Standard)$1,200

  Multi-page business website with contact/lead form and mobile-responsive layout.

• Tier 3 (Professional)$2,500

  Business storefront or complex multi-page site with checkout, payment processor and mobile-responsive layout.

• Tier 4 (Enterprise)$4,000

  Full-service custom build. Send your requirements to receive an accurate quote.

How it works

1. You send what you haveExisting site, logo, photographs, the text you already use with customers. If the old site is gone we can usually recover it from the Internet Archive; we have done it more than once.
2. We build itTwo to four weeks for Tier 1 and Tier 2, longer for a storefront. You see it on a staging URL before anything goes live.
3. You own itThe domain stays in your name, on your registrar account. The source is yours. If you leave, you leave with everything.

Who this is for

• A business whose current site was built years ago by somebody who no longer answers.
• A business with no site at all, sending customers to a Facebook page or a free subdomain that shows somebody else's advertising.
• A business whose site loads slowly enough that customers leave before it finishes.
• A restaurant, shop or service whose customers keep asking for the menu, the price list or the phone number, one message at a time.

Who this is not for

You want to build and edit it yourself, every week

Then Tier 0 is the honest answer. We set up a drag and drop builder, hand you the keys and charge you nothing for a design you are going to change anyway.

Your current site works and only its documents are broken

Then do not buy a rebuild. A Website Quality Audit is $500 and tells you exactly what is wrong. Sometimes the answer is four hours of repair.

You need it live this week

We cannot do that well. A rushed site is the one you replace in a year, which makes it the expensive option.

Worth having alongside

• Web & Email HostingThe site has to live somewhere, and the mailbox on your own domain is the other half of looking like a business.›
• System 7xYour site is the front door; System 7x is what customers sign in to behind it. Appointments, quotes, invoices, service reports and documents, and where you switch it on, a stock list they can request a quote against. You decide whether a booking waits for your approval.›
• Website Quality AuditIf you are not sure a rebuild is what you need, this is the cheaper question to ask first.›
• Dedicated Mass Email Marketing InfrastructureA site collects addresses. Something has to send to them without landing in spam.›