Website design for small business owners who need the site to bring in work, not win awards. Fixed price, copy included, live in two to four weeks.
Small business website design typically costs $1,700 to $5,000 for a five-page site and takes two to four weeks. That covers custom design, development, copywriting, on-page SEO, a contact form that actually delivers, and analytics. The main thing separating a website for small business that earns its keep from one that sits there is whether it answers what a buyer wants to know before they call.
Someone landing on your site wants four things fast: what you do, whether you serve them, roughly what it costs, and how to reach you. Sites that bury these behind a brand story lose people in seconds. We put them where a visitor in a hurry will find them.
Most small business sites offer five things to do and get none of them done. Every page we build has one primary action, whether that is a call, a form or a booking. The secondary options stay available without competing for attention.
Reviews with names attached, real photographs of real work, and specifics rather than adjectives. A stranger deciding between you and two competitors is looking for a reason to trust you, and stock photography is not it.
More than half your visitors arrive on mobile, often on a patchy connection. We hold every build to Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5 seconds. A slow site loses people before they ever see the design.
Prices change, staff change, hours change. If updating them means emailing an agency and waiting three days, it does not happen and the site goes stale. You get a CMS and a walkthrough so your team can make routine changes.
For most small businesses, the money is in local search. That means proper local schema, consistent name, address and phone across the web, and a Google Business Profile that is actually filled in. We set the site side up and tell you what to do off it.
| Project | Range (USD) | Timeline | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single landing page | $1,200 to $4,000 | 1 to 2 weeks | Testing an offer or running paid traffic |
| Five-page website | $1,700 to $5,000 | 2 to 4 weeks | Most local service businesses |
| Ten to fifteen pages | $8,000 to $25,000 | 5 to 9 weeks | Multiple services or locations |
| Online store | $15,000 to $45,000 | 6 to 12 weeks | Selling products directly |
| Redesign of an existing site | $3,000 to $15,000 | 3 to 6 weeks | Traffic arrives but nobody enquires |
| Care plan | $150 to $600 per month | Ongoing | Updates, hosting, backups, monitoring |
Fixed scope, quoted after a short discovery call. What moves a project up a band is the number of pages, whether copy has to be written from scratch or migrated, and how many systems need connecting. Building a website for business use costs less when your content is ready, which is why we tell you exactly what to gather before we start.
Menus you can change yourself, ordering that does not hand a third of the ticket to a marketplace, and reservations wired in properly. See restaurant websites.
Appointment requests, plain answers on insurance and cost, and treatment pages that rank. Built with patient privacy handled properly. See dental websites.
Practice area pages that rank separately, attorney bios that build trust, and intake that respects confidentiality and your state bar rules. See law firm websites.
IDX listings that load fast and stay indexed, area pages that win local search, and lead capture that does not scare people off. See websites for realtors.
Service area pages, quote request forms, and the proof that convinces someone to let a stranger into their home. Built to show up when someone searches at the point of need.
Booking that syncs with the calendar you already use, class and treatment listings, and a gallery that loads fast on a phone.
| The mistake | What it costs you | What we do instead |
|---|---|---|
| A homepage that says what you value, not what you sell | Visitors leave before understanding the offer | Offer, audience and price signal in the first screen |
| Contact form that quietly fails | Enquiries vanish with nobody noticing for months | Every form logged server side and delivery confirmed on launch |
| Stock photography of people who do not work there | Visitors discount everything else on the page | Real photographs, or honest illustration instead of fake teams |
| Prices hidden to force a call | Price shoppers leave, and you get calls that waste both sides | Ranges published so the enquiries you get are qualified |
| A design nobody can update | The site goes stale within a year | CMS plus a recorded walkthrough for your team |
| Built once and never measured | No idea which pages bring work | Analytics and call tracking configured before launch |
None of these are unusual. Most sites we are asked to rescue have three or four of them at once, and fixing them is often cheaper than a full rebuild.
A five-page site runs $1,700 to $5,000 and takes two to four weeks. A single landing page is $1,200 to $4,000. Ten to fifteen pages runs $8,000 to $25,000. We quote fixed scope after a discovery call rather than an hourly estimate that grows later, so the number you agree is the number you pay.
Two to four weeks for a five-page site once content is ready. The delay in almost every small business project is content: photographs, service details, pricing decisions. We send a short list of what to gather at kickoff, and projects where that arrives on time finish on time.
A social page rents your audience from a platform that can change the rules or the reach overnight, and it will not rank for someone searching for your service in your town. A website you own does both. For most small businesses the two work together, with social bringing people in and the site converting them.
Your services and what each one costs or starts at, photographs of real work, any reviews you already have, your logo if you have one, and access to your domain. If you do not have photographs or a logo we will tell you honestly whether it is worth investing in them first.
On-page work makes you eligible: proper structure, page titles, local schema, fast loading, and a page for each service you want to be found for. Ranking also depends on your Google Business Profile, reviews and how competitive your area is. We set up everything on the site and tell you plainly what else it will take, rather than promising a position we cannot control.
Yes. You get a content management system and a recorded walkthrough covering the changes owners actually make: prices, hours, staff, photographs, new services. Anything structural you can send to us, but the routine edits should never need a developer.
You do. Code, design files, domain, hosting and analytics are all yours, and it does not depend on staying on a care plan with us. If you ever want to move to another agency you take everything with you.
Yes, and it is included. We interview you, write the copy, and design around real words rather than placeholder text. If you would rather write it yourself we will give you a brief and a word count per page, and design to your draft.
You can run it yourself with the walkthrough and documentation, or take a care plan at $150 to $600 a month covering hosting, backups, updates, monitoring and a set number of content changes. There is no lock-in either way.
Sometimes, honestly. If you need a single page with your hours and a phone number, a builder will do it for a few pounds a month and we would rather tell you that than sell you something bigger. Custom design starts paying when the site has to compete in search, sell more than one service, or convert paid traffic.
Send us what you are trying to fix and we will tell you what it takes, what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it. If we are not, we will say so.