You are the business. The website is the first impression.

A one-page site is $800. Up to six pages is $1,950. Both fixed, and both printed just above. Most web designers want you on a call before they’ll say a number. If what you need doesn’t fit either figure, I’ll say so in the first reply rather than the third meeting.

No, not for a site like this. Hosting costs nothing on Cloudflare’s free tier, and your domain is about $15 a year, paid by you, direct to the registrar. The $95 a month care plan is optional and most people don’t take it. Nothing switches off if you stop paying me.

One page is usually live within a week of you sending me the words. Six pages takes two to three. The usual answer is six to twelve weeks, and most of that is waiting: for a proposal, for a mockup round, for someone to chase you for content. I’ll tell you on day one exactly what I need from you, because that’s the only part that actually takes time.

You do. Domain, code, hosting account and content, all in your name from the first day, not mine. The real question behind this one is usually what happens if your web designer disappears, and the answer is: nothing. Hand it to another developer tomorrow and it keeps working, because there’s no builder underneath it that only I can log into. Ask anyone you’re considering. The answer isn’t always yes.

You get an editor where the words on the page are just words. Change them, press save, done. No code, no invoice, no waiting for me to have a free afternoon. That’s true of the site I build you, and it should be true of any site you pay for. If you’d rather not touch it, the $95 a month plan covers it, but I’d rather you didn’t need it.

Only if something on it is storing things in your visitors’ browsers, and the usual culprit is Google Analytics. What I build doesn’t: the counting happens on your own server, nothing is written to anyone’s browser, so there is nothing to ask permission for. There is a second reason to care, and it is the one nobody mentions. People who refuse a banner drop out of the figures entirely, so the sites that ask are the ones counting least. You still want a privacy policy that says what you collect, and I write that with the site.

No. Every site I build comes with something simpler, living at your own address rather than inside a Google account: how many people came, where they came from, which pages they read, who got in touch, and which of them said yes to being emailed. Five things you would actually act on, rather than a product built for advertising departments. It is further up this page, and the dashboard in that frame is the real one, so press it and have a look round.

Three usual culprits: it’s slow enough that people leave before it loads, it doesn’t say plainly what you do and who for, or there’s no obvious way to get in touch. Then the honest fourth one: a website doesn’t create demand, it converts demand you already have. If none is arriving yet, a new site won’t fix that, and I’d rather tell you now than take the money.

Usually one of three things: the site is new and Google hasn’t reached it yet, something in the code is telling Google to stay away, or the site is slow and thin enough that there’s nothing much to rank. The first fixes itself in a few weeks. The second I can find in ten minutes. The third is a rebuild, and if that’s what you’ve got, I’d rather tell you than sell you a monthly SEO retainer, which I don’t do.

Maybe. If you enjoy doing it, do. I use AI heavily myself; it’s a large part of why this costs $800 rather than $9,000. What it won’t do on its own is decide what your site should say, or notice that the page it generated takes four seconds to load. You’re not paying me to type. You’re paying for the decisions, and for someone who checks.