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The build work inside a small business website comes to 6 to 8 weeks, yet a troubled project shows 4 or 5 months on the calendar, and nearly all of that gap is waiting rather than working. This guide puts a price in working days on every missing item, from text that never arrives to a domain login nobody can find, and ends with the ten question checklist worth finishing before anyone quotes you a date.
Most articles on this subject stop at "buy a maintenance plan". This one walks through the real twelve months after handover with the hours and the money written out: how noisy the first month is, the four kinds of work that never stop, what a year of care actually costs, and the four honest ways of owning it. It also says plainly where we tell a client to buy less support than we would happily sell them.
Most guides to this decision hand you a polite checklist and leave you no wiser when you are actually sitting across the table. This one does the opposite. Here are the exact questions to ask a web design company, the answers that should make you pause, the arithmetic behind a US$2,000 quote against a US$12,000 one, the timeline you can hold anyone to, and an honest account of when the cheapest option is the right one.
Most articles on this question are written by people who sell redesigns, so they list ten symptoms and conclude that you need one. This is the honest version: the four numbers on your own dashboard that settle the argument, the seven symptoms that really do mean rebuild, the five complaints that almost never do, and the cheaper repairs that fix the same problem for a fraction of the money.
Most answers to this question stop at a vague three to six months. This one gives you the week by week arithmetic for three real sizes of app, then covers the part that actually makes launches slip: the developer accounts, the privacy questionnaire, the reviewer test account and the store rules Apple and Google apply before anybody is allowed to download what you have paid for.
