Pricing

Flexible Plans That Fit Your Business

What a Small Business Website Actually Costs

Why the Number Is on This Page at All

Most web design companies won't give you a price until they've had you on two calls and worked out what your budget is. That should tell you something. My pricing is published because it doesn't move based on what I think you can afford, and because you deserve to know whether we're in the same ballpark before you spend an afternoon on it.

What the Monthly Plan Covers

$130 a month covers design, development, hosting, unlimited edits, support and ongoing updates, for a site up to five pages. Two things sit outside that and both are printed on the cards above rather than saved for a phone call: pages past the fifth are $100 each, and adding a blog is $250.

The Two Website Plans Build the Same Site

What changes is what happens afterwards. That's the actual decision.

$130 a month, $0 down

Hosting, unlimited edits, support and lifetime updates are all included. Twelve month minimum, because the expensive part of the work happens in the first few weeks and gets paid for across the year. After that you're month to month.

$3,800 up front, plus $25 a month for hosting

You own the site outright. Edits are not included at that price, they're a $50 a month add-on, and ongoing support and updates aren't part of it either. That's the honest trade: you're buying the asset rather than the relationship.

Which one is actually cheaper

Run the numbers rather than guessing. Over two years the monthly plan comes to $3,120, while the one-time build is $4,400 once you include hosting. The two cross over at right about the three year mark, and after that owning it outright is the cheaper path. If you add unlimited edits to the one-time plan, monthly stays cheaper the whole way. So the real question isn't which is cheaper, it's whether you expect to need changes.

If You Need an Online Store

Online stores start at $8,000. They're built the same way as everything else here, as a fast static site, with a separate backend handling products and orders rather than a platform that drags a shopfront's worth of code onto every page. That's the whole reason for the approach: most hosted store platforms are slow by default, and speed is the thing I'm not willing to trade away. It covers the store build, payment and shipping setup, and a walkthrough so you can manage products yourself. Unlimited edits are a $50 a month add-on there too.

What Happens at the Twelve Month Mark

On the monthly plan you don't keep the site if you leave. That catches people off guard, so I'd rather be direct about it: if you could pay twelve months and walk away with the site, nobody would ever choose the up-front option. Most people stay regardless, because by then the site has had time to rank and starting over means handing that back.

What If You Sell or Close the Business?

It depends which plan you're on, and it's worth knowing before you sign rather than after.

On the monthly plan

The twelve month term stands. If you sell up or close in month seven, you're still liable for the remainder up to the year. That isn't me being awkward about it, it's the same reason the term exists at all: the build gets paid for across those twelve months rather than up front.

If you bought it outright

It's yours to do as you like with. Cancel, move it to another host, hand it over to whoever buys the business. You paid for the asset, so there's nothing to negotiate, and I'll help with the handover rather than making it difficult.

How This Compares to the Alternatives

Against a DIY site builder

A builder subscription costs less per month and you do the work. If you have the time and the eye for it, that's a legitimate choice and I'd rather you took it than paid me and resented it. What you trade away is speed, because those platforms ship a lot of code your site never uses, and your evenings.

Against a larger agency

An agency will usually quote several thousand up front and more per month after. Some of that buys real expertise. A good deal of it buys account managers, project managers and office space. You'll also tend to be a small account there, which affects how fast your emails get answered.

Against the cheapest quote you'll find

Somebody will always do it for less. What's usually missing from those quotes is what happens after launch, and that's the part that decides whether a website is still worth anything two years from now.