Straightforward, honest
pricing.
Every project starts with a conversation — these are starting points, not final quotes.
Basic
5-page site
Hosting $75/mo, billed separately.
A five-page professional site — everything you need to look credible online.
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Standard
9-page site
Hosting $175/mo, billed separately.
Everything in Basic, plus more pages and ongoing monthly updates.
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Premium
13-page site
Hosting $345/mo, billed separately.
Everything in Basic, with more pages, more updates, and monthly blog content.
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Custom
Complex / large-scale build
Hosting $75–$350/mo, first month free.
For complex, custom-built projects or extended builds with flexible terms.
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Included in every project
Design
Custom layout, type and color chosen for your business. Desktop, tablet and phone screens designed, not just scaled down.
Build
Hand-built pages, fast loading, no page builder bloat. Works in current versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.
Content
Your text and photos placed and sized properly. Image compression so the site stays quick on mobile data.
Search & sharing
Page titles, descriptions and link previews set up. Google Business and Maps details pointed at the right pages.
Launch
Domain and hosting connected, HTTPS enabled, redirects from the old site kept so existing links still work.
Handover
You own the domain, hosting account and files. A short written guide covers how to make everyday edits.
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Accessibility
Readable contrast, real text instead of text-in-images, keyboard-reachable links and labelled form fields.
Forms & email
Contact form wired to a form service that emails you each submission, with spam filtering.
Analytics
Privacy-friendly visitor stats installed and explained, so you can see what people actually look at.
Add-ons
Extra pages, booking or scheduling embeds, menu or price list updates, and photo shoots arranged through a local photographer.
Monthly updates
Standard and Premium plans include 15 or 30 content updates a month, plus monthly reporting, as part of hosting. Basic plan sites can add ongoing edits any time.
Payment
Half up front, half at launch. Prices in USD. Hosting and domain costs are paid to your provider, not to me.
Common questions
What does the price actually cover?+
Design and build of the pages listed in the plan, plus launch and handover. The custom domain is included free. Hosting is billed monthly and scales with the plan — $75/mo on Basic, $175/mo on Standard, $345/mo on Premium, or $75–$350/mo on Custom with the first month free.
What counts as a page?+
Any screen with its own address and its own content — home, services, about, contact. A long home page with several sections still counts as one page. Additional pages beyond the plan are quoted once we know the scope.
What's a revision round?+
One pass of collected feedback. You send everything you want changed in one go, I make the changes, and we look again. Extra rounds are billed hourly if you want them.
Can I edit the site myself afterwards?+
Yes. Text, prices, hours and photos are set up so you can change them without touching code, and the handover guide walks through it. If you would rather not, Standard and Premium plans include monthly edits, or a care plan can cover them on Basic.
Do I need to have text and photos ready?+
It helps, but no. We can start from what you already have — a Facebook page, an old site, a menu — and I will tell you exactly what is missing. Light copy editing is included on Standard and Premium.
What if I already have a website?+
Rebuilds are common. Your existing content moves across, old page addresses redirect to the new ones so search results and printed links keep working, and the switch happens in one evening.
Start your website.
Tell me about your business, what the site needs to do, and which package looks closest. You’ll get a fixed quote back before any work begins.
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Quoted in writing from $750 before any work starts, so there is no running meter.
Live in about a week
Most five-page sites go live a week after I have your content. Larger builds scale from there.
Yours at handover
You keep the domain, the hosting account and the files, plus a guide for everyday edits.