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Most timeline articles hand you a range and stop there. This one shows you where every week of a website project actually goes, names the four things behind almost every delay, and puts a cost in days on each of them. Read it before you sign anything, because it will tell you whether the date you have been quoted is a real plan or a hopeful one.
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.
Almost every page answering this question hides behind the words it depends, so this one does the opposite. Here are the real price bands, a typical quote taken apart line by line, the arithmetic behind every driver that lifts a number, the bill that arrives every year after launch, and an honest account of the times when the cheaper option is the one we would tell you to take.
Websites are attacked constantly, mostly by bots probing for weak spots. A few layers of defence stop almost all of it.
A modern site is fast, secure, accessible and built to convert — not just pretty. Here is the real checklist.
Three businesses ask us this same question in three different ways, and the honest answer is rarely the biggest option. This guide hands you a five minute test built from three questions, the build and running numbers we quote in practice for each choice, and the plain arithmetic that shows when the cheaper option earns more. By the end you will have a decision, a budget and a next step.
Your new site got compliments and the enquiry inbox barely moved, which is a specific problem with a specific fix. This is the arithmetic of your own website in three numbers you can find in an afternoon, the five changes we make for real clients in the order that moves the number, and an honest account of when repairing five pages beats paying for a full rebuild.
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 owners are sold a shape before anybody asks how many things they actually sell, so here is the arithmetic we use with clients instead: how many addresses a search engine gets to rank, what each extra page really adds to the bill and the calendar, what a single page quietly hides from your own numbers, and a five question test that reaches an answer in ten minutes, including the many times the honest answer is the cheaper one page site.
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.
Missing text, not design, is what usually holds a website up. This guide skips the vague advice and hands over the working parts: where to find the words you already own in your own inbox, the order to write your pages in, how long each one should be, a five block skeleton that turns a blank screen into a draft, a recording method that gets a page drafted in about an hour and a half once the questions are collected, and the arithmetic of when to pay a writer instead.
Most owners asking this have already been sold the answer, so here is ours before the detail: about eight in ten businesses need a phone friendly website first and an app later or never. This article settles it with three numbers rather than another feature list, covering how many people really install, what the build and the years after it cost, and how often one customer would open it.
