What a website from $2,000 covers, and what it doesn’t.
A starting price only helps if you know what it buys. Here is ours, line by line.
What the starting price covers.
The starting build is a small, finished website. Not a template you fill in later, and not a first draft that grows a second invoice.
- Up to three static pages.
- One basic inquiry form.
- Phone and desktop layouts, with call and email links.
- Your existing branding, with light edits of the copy you supply.
- Search foundations: titles, descriptions, headings and a sitemap where the platform supports it.
- Two revision rounds on the finished preview.
- Launch, then your site files handed over once it’s paid.
What you bring.
Approved branding, copy and photos. The starting price assumes the words and pictures exist. Light edits are included. Writing the whole site from scratch is not.
What gets its own quote.
Extra pages, a move between platforms or new functionality can change the quote. New branding, extensive copywriting, stores, payments, booking systems and custom integrations each need their own agreed scope.
That isn’t a catch. A booking system or an online store is a different project with different risks, and pricing it inside a starter build would mean guessing. Work beyond the agreed scope gets a quote before it starts.
How paying works.
- 1
Your written quote
Pages, features, supplied materials, revisions, price, payment terms and dates, in writing.
- 2
Half upfront
The first half, before work starts.
- 3
Preview and revisions
You review the finished preview, with two revision rounds.
- 4
Half on approval
After you approve the finished preview, before launch.
- 5
Launch and handover
Site files and transferable custom work are handed over after payment.
What stays yours.
Your domain and hosting stay in your name, and you pay those providers directly. Their charges, renewals and any optional services are separate from the build, and any added cost needs your approval first.
If a web designer has ever registered a domain for you, check whose account it’s in. Whoever controls the domain controls where your website and your email point.
Five lines to look for on any quote.
Two quotes can show the same total and buy very different websites. Line these up and the difference shows.
- Which pages, by name.
- Who supplies the words and the photos.
- How many revision rounds.
- Whose name the domain and hosting are in.
- What it costs every month after launch, and what that buys.
