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What a small-business website project actually costs, and why
Website pricing gets confusing fast because two very different things share the same name. A single template with your logo swapped in and a fully custom site built around your specific business and audience can both be called “a website” — and can cost ten times apart from each other.
What actually drives the price
The number of pages matters less than most people expect. What actually moves the cost is how much structure and decision-making the site has to carry — custom layouts versus reused patterns, original content versus content that already exists, integrations with booking or payment tools, and how much back-and-forth revision the scope allows for.
- A focused single-page site: starting around $1,200
- A typical multi-page business site: usually $6,000–$8,000
- A site with ecommerce, events, a gallery, or a built-in lightweight CRM: up to $15,000
Quick check
These are starting reference points, not a quote — the actual number always comes from a proposal built around your specific scope.
Why a fixed proposal beats an hourly guess
A proposal built after real discovery — not a generic price list — identifies the deliverables, responsibilities, timeline, and cost before any work begins, with scope changes presented for approval rather than appearing as a surprise on the final invoice. That is the difference between a number you can actually plan around and one that is really just a placeholder.
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