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What a website costs, with the numbers in front of you

These are the real ranges: the same ones the estimator on the home page uses, and the same ones you will see in the proposal. No "contact us for pricing" and no price-by-phone: what you see here is what goes into the proposal.

What it costs to build

A fixed price, in writing, in a proposal we email you after reviewing your site and what you want. No call required. These ranges are the starting point, and where your project lands inside them depends mostly on how many distinct templates there are and how much content has to be created.

What it isWho it is forRangeTimeline
Simple website Up to 6 pages, mobile-ready, with click-to-call, a contact form and your Google profile. No extras $700–$950 1–2 wks
Business website The normal case: present the business, collect enquiries $1.2K–$2.4K 3–5 wks
Multi-location or service-area site Practices with several locations, contractors with town pages, a staff directory and careers $2.5K–$5K 5–8 wks
Online store Selling, with payments, shipping and tax $2.9K–$5.5K 5–8 wks
Portal or community Accounts, user content, forums or events $5K–$12K 6–10 wks
Web or mobile app A product that does something, not a site that describes one $9K–$21K 10–16 wks
SaaS platform A subscription product, with a dashboard and billing $15K–$34K 10–16 wks

What adds to it, and by how much

These are not bundles: they are specific pieces of work that are sometimes needed and sometimes not. They appear itemised in the proposal, with their own price, so any of them can be dropped without redoing the estimate.

What it isWho it is forRange
Custom visual identity When there is no brand, or the one there is will not carry a new site. $600–$1.5K
Technical and content SEO Structure, structured data, speed, and copy written for the searches you want. $400–$1K
A second language Not translation: a URL tree per language, with hreflang and content of its own. $400–$900
Payments and subscriptions Gateway, receipts, retries, and the whole life cycle of a subscription. $800–$2K
Accounts and a private area Sign-up, permissions, password recovery and everything behind them. $1.5K–$3.5K
Connect your tools Square, Jobber, Google Business Profile, your booking system or your CRM: forms land where you already work. $400–$1.2K

What it costs to keep it alive

A website is not furniture: it runs on software that gets security patches every month, and it sits out in the open on the internet. Hosting is inside all three plans, so there is no separate hosting bill. A 12-month initial term, renewing at the same price with no increase.

Essential

For a site that already does its job and just has to stay standing.

$39/month

paid month by month · 12-month initial term, no year up front

  • Hosting on Super Awesome Host (OVHcloud), with the domain and the certificate renewing themselves
  • Daily backups, kept off the server, with 30 days of history
  • Security updates to the server and the site, applied and checked by a person
  • Checked every minute: if the site goes down, we know before you do
  • Malware scanning on every new or changed file
  • Forms protected against bots and spam
  • One content change a year by us, plus unlimited edits you make yourself from your panel
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What most people pick

Growth

For a site that moves with the business: hours, services, offers, staff.

$69/month

paid month by month · 12-month initial term, no year up front

Everything in the plan before, plus:

  • Four content changes a year, one a quarter
  • Quarterly check on speed and on what Google sees of your site
  • A one-page report each quarter: visits, forms received, what people searched for
  • Priority response: front of the queue
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Complete

For businesses that actually publish: news, campaigns, new pages every month.

$99/month

paid month by month · 12-month initial term, no year up front

Everything in the plan before, plus:

  • One content change a month, whether you save it up or not
  • New pages when you need them, not just edits to the ones you have
  • A monthly review, with the improvements made and not just noted
  • A direct number, and a person who already knows your project
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Just hosting? $15/month, month to month, no term. Server, SSL, daily backups and uptime monitoring; updates and changes are billed when you ask for them.

A "change" is one round of work on your content: adding a page, removing one, or rewriting it. It is not a typo or a phone number: we fix those when you ask and they do not count against anything. And whatever you edit yourself from your panel (hours, menu, offers, job openings or photos) is unlimited and never counts either.

Why two similar-looking sites do not cost the same

How many distinct templates there are

Twenty pages using three layouts cost far less than six pages with six layouts. What you pay for is the design and code of each template, not the number of URLs.

Who writes the content

If the copy and photos arrive finished, the project lands at the bottom of the range. If they have to be written and produced, it goes up, and this is the factor that moves the number most often.

What it has to talk to

A form that sends an email is an afternoon. A form that creates a customer in your ERP and issues an invoice is something else, and the difference is almost always in the other side’s documentation.

What happens when traffic arrives

A site with ten visits a day and one with ten thousand are not built the same way, even when they look the same. This gets decided at the start, or paid for twice.

And what you will never see on the invoice

  • Theme or page-builder licences: we do not buy any. If you already own one and would rather use it, we work on top of it.
  • A rush surcharge: if it does not fit the timeline we say so beforehand, we do not sell it more expensively.
  • A ransom for your own files: the site is yours, and you take the code and the domain whenever you want.
  • Hidden hosting margins: the plan fee is what the hosting costs.

What happens if it goes wrong

Six commitments we already keep. Here together, before you have to ask for them.

  • The price is agreed in writing

    The written proposal we send you carries a fixed price, and it does not move. Anything that expands the scope is quoted before it is done, never as a surprise on the invoice.

  • 90 days of full warranty

    From the day it goes live, and it is three months, not thirty days: a website’s faults do not show up in the first week, they show up when something on the server changes or the form quietly stops delivering. We fix it at no cost, no questions asked.

  • Two rounds of design changes included

    We design on your brand and your real content, with two rounds of changes inside the price. If a third is needed we tell you what it costs before doing it, never after.

  • Everything is yours, and you can leave

    The code, the database and the domain. There is no proprietary platform you cannot leave, and we do not charge an exit fee: the domain and your content are yours from day one, and the site is yours once it is paid for.

  • No year up front

    Maintenance is paid month by month, with a 12-month initial term. We do not ask for twelve months in advance to get started.

  • 99.9 % uptime, committed

    And if it goes down we know before you do: checked every minute, daily backups kept off the server with 30 days of history, and security updates applied by a person. That is in all three care plans, the cheapest one included, and the uptime commitment is written into the terms, with the method used to measure it.

Where your site lives, who can see it, and how it is built

Three questions worth having answered before you sign, not after.

  • Where it is hosted: Super Awesome Host, and who they are to us

    Your site is hosted by Super Awesome Host, an independent hosting company, in OVHcloud data centers: Virginia for US businesses, Spain or France for European ones, never mixed. We disclose the relationship: they have been our client since 2022, we built their platform and still work on it, so we know the server your site lives on from the inside and talk directly to the people who run it. Hosting is inside the care plan, so there is no second bill. And if you would rather use your own provider, the site is yours and it goes wherever you say.

    See the case study

  • Confidentiality, with the right paperwork for the place

    We sign a non-disclosure agreement on request, always. If the project handles personal data of people in Europe, we also sign the processor agreement required by article 28 of the GDPR, with the safeguards and the sub-processors in writing. If it handles US health data, the Business Associate Agreement that HIPAA requires, and Super Awesome Host signs it too, so the chain holds all the way down and does not break at the provider. And access is bounded by contract: who can see the data, from where, and under what safeguards, set out in full in our privacy policy.

    Read our privacy policy

  • Built to standards, not by eye

    Built to WCAG 2.1 AA: semantic HTML, navigable end to end with a keyboard, checked contrast, alternative text on images, and animation switched off for anyone who asks for it to be off. Tested in the four browsers, and from the phone upwards rather than the other way round. And the checking is not on trust: every publish runs an automated audit that fails if an image loses its alt text or a navigation loses its name.

Questions about price

How much does a website cost?

A simple website of up to 6 pages starts at $700. A custom business website is $1.2K–$2.4K and takes 3–5 weeks. A store is $2.9K–$5.5K. On top of that comes the care plan, from $39 a month, which includes hosting.

Why a range instead of a price?

Because the price depends on how many distinct templates there are and how much content has to be created, and neither is knowable until we have seen your current site and what you want. What is fixed is that the written proposal we send you carries a fixed price that does not move. You do not need a call to get it.

Is the maintenance plan mandatory?

No. It is what we recommend: a site with nobody maintaining it is not cheaper, it is unmaintained until the day it matters. Care plans have a 12-month initial term. If you only want hosting, it is $15 a month, month to month, with no term. And if you would rather run it yourself, we hand over the whole thing.

Can I pay in instalments?

Yes. The usual split is one payment at kick-off and the rest on delivery, and long projects are split by phase. There is also the Illinois Valley local program, which is not an instalment plan. A simple website of up to 6 pages costs $700–$950. In Bureau, LaSalle, Putnam and Marshall counties we do not charge you for it: you pay $39 a month for hosting and maintenance for 12 months ($468 in total), and the site is yours at month 12.

What if I want to move to another provider?

You take the code, the database and the domain, with no exit fee. The domain and your own text and photos are yours from day one; the site is yours once it is paid for.

Can I change my hours, menu or offers myself?

Yes. If you want it, you get a simple panel for the things that change often: hours, menu, offers, job openings and photos. Edits you make yourself are unlimited and never count against your plan.

Do you do local SEO month to month?

Yes: $199 a month, with a 3-month minimum. It covers your Google profile, town or service pages, reviews, and a monthly report with the enquiries received and the cost per enquiry.

Do the prices include tax?

No. The figures are before tax and in US dollars. Applicable taxes appear in the proposal, based on where your company is.

See what each service includes →

Based in Bureau, LaSalle, Putnam or Marshall county? See what this looks like locally: same prices, plus two programs that only apply around here. Running a practice or a contracting business? See clinic websites and contractor websites.

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