Guide
What a website actually costs in Brighton
Most agencies will not tell you until you have had a call. Here are our actual prices, what moves them, and how to read somebody else’s quote.
The short answer
For a small UK business, a professionally built site is usually £500 to £2,000. Ours are £495, £895 and from £1,495. Below a couple of hundred pounds you are buying a template someone spent an afternoon on. Above about £5,000 you are buying agency overhead, a design process, or genuine complexity — sometimes all three, and sometimes only the first.
What actually drives the price
Not page count. Almost nobody believes this, and it is the single most common misunderstanding in a first conversation.
A fifteen-page brochure site is mostly the same work as a five-page one: the same design decisions, the same build, more writing. What genuinely changes the number is whether the site has to do anything.
- Showing information — who you are, what you do, how to reach you. This is the £495 to £895 range.
- Taking something from a visitor — a booking, a payment, a file, an account. Every one of those is a thing that can go wrong at 2am, and the price reflects making sure it does not. This is from £1,495.
- Talking to something else — your diary, your invoicing, your CRM. Usually the most valuable part and almost never quoted on a website page.
The cost nobody mentions until afterwards
A website is not a one-off purchase. Hosting, the domain, security updates and the inevitable small changes all continue. Ours is £29 or £49 a month and is optional.
The question worth asking any supplier is not “how much is the site” but “what does year two cost, and what happens if I leave?” A low build price attached to a contract you cannot exit is the most expensive arrangement on this page.
How to read a quote
Four questions, in order of how much money they save you:
- Do I own the domain and the site? If the answer is qualified in any way, stop.
- What is in writing before work starts? A scope you both signed is the only thing that prevents the argument at the end.
- Who edits it afterwards, and what does that cost?
- What happens when it breaks? Everything breaks eventually. The difference is whether somebody answers.
When we are the wrong choice
If you want a brand identity developed from scratch, a photographic shoot and a six-week design process, hire an agency that does that properly — we do not, and pretending otherwise would waste your money.
If you want the cheapest possible page and will never touch it again, a template builder will genuinely serve you better than we will.
We are the right choice when the website is part of a bigger problem: enquiries arriving in three places, quotes retyped, the same information entered twice. That join is the thing we actually do.
Questions people ask next
Usually because the price depends on what you need, which is true, and sometimes because it depends on what you look like you can afford, which is also true. Publishing a range costs the second one.
Sometimes. A cheap template is fine for a one-page presence you will never touch. It stops being fine the moment you need it to do something — take a booking, feed your invoicing, be edited by you without breaking.
Bookings, payments, logins, stored customer data and anything that has to talk to another system. Page count matters far less than people expect.
You own the domain and the site. That should be true of any supplier, and it is worth asking before you pay anyone.
Prices for our website packages are published in full, and the automation side is quoted after we have seen the process. If you are not sure which you need, describe the problem below and we will tell you honestly.
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Whether it is a first website, a process that eats your week, or a tool nobody sells off the shelf — describe it in your own words and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.