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What should a website like yours actually cost?
Six questions and you get a real range, with the reasoning shown. Useful whether or not you hire me, because the main thing it tells you is when a quote you have been given is out of line.
Your project
01
What are you building?
A rebuild is usually similar work to a new site, plus redirects so you keep the rankings you have.
02
Roughly how many pages?
Count a page per service if you want each service to rank on its own. That is usually the right call.
03
Who writes the words?
Be honest here. "I will write it myself" is where most website projects quietly die at week two.
04
Does it need to do anything beyond inform?
This is the single biggest driver of cost, by a wide margin.
05
Do you have photos and a logo?
Phone photos of real work are fine and usually better than stock. Nothing at all costs time to solve.
06
When do you need it live?
A normal build takes about three weeks. Faster means reshuffling other work, which costs more.
Estimated range
How that is made up
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Reading a quote
What actually drives the price.
If a quote you have been given is far outside the range above, one of these is usually why. Ask which.
Functionality, not page count
Twenty informational pages cost less than four pages with a working store. Anything that takes money, books time or talks to another system is where the hours go.
Who writes the copy
Cheap quotes usually assume you deliver finished text. If nobody says who is writing it, the project stalls at week two and the price goes up later.
Whether redirects are included
On a rebuild, mapping your old URLs to new ones protects the rankings you already have. Leaving it out is the most common and most expensive mistake in a redesign.
What happens after launch
A site is not finished when it goes live. Ask what updates, backups and edits cost, and whether the domain and hosting will be in your name. If they are not, that is the real price.