What does it cost?

How the three fit together

The audit is a snapshot of where you are, for when you do not yet know whether a new site is the answer. The build is the fix, and it carries its own research, so buying it directly is not skipping a step. The monthly work is the loop after that, because the data that says whether the build was right does not exist until the site has been live and gathering it. All three can be bought on their own. On a site we did not build, the monthly work starts with the audit, because it tells us what your platform will let us change and whether the site is sound enough to invest in. We work through your editor only, and we do not touch plugins, themes, code or hosting.

What costs extra, and when you find out

Three services, and nothing else on a menu. What varies is the size of a build, and those prices are published too. A page design beyond the six included is £450. An extra page built from a design you already have is £250 with our copy, or £150 if you write it yourself. Copy beyond the ten included pages is £200 a page.

On the monthly work, the quote fixes your content allowance in writing, and anything beyond it is £175 per 500 words. Moving a large blog archive across, or connecting something like a booking or payment system, is quoted on what it actually involves rather than guessed at here.

After launch you can either look after the site yourself or take the care plan, at £75 a month. It covers hosting, updates, security fixes, monitoring, backups and an hour a month of small changes. It is optional on every build, and the domain stays in your name either way.

All of it is agreed in the same quote as everything else, before the work starts. Nothing appears on an invoice that was not agreed first.

Why two of these are ranges and one is not

The audit is the same piece of work every time, so it is the same price every time. A website is not: five pages and twenty pages are different jobs. The monthly work is not either. What sets it above the floor is how many locations and services need their own pages, how much content you want each month, how competitive the terms are, and on a site we did not build, how much the platform lets us do. We quote the actual number before anything starts, and it does not move afterwards unless you ask for something that was not in it.

What you are actually buying

The audit pays for itself if you go ahead. Commission a build within 30 calendar days of the report landing and the full £450 is credited against it. The audit is a complete piece of work either way, so the credit is a reason to act while the findings are current, not a discount you lose by declining.

Every build carries a 30 day defect warranty. Anything broken or off-spec in the first month after launch is fixed at no charge. That covers defects, not changes of mind.

You own it. Once the invoices are settled, the code, the copy and the design are yours outright. Sites are built on open standards and can be hosted anywhere by anyone. There is no platform to be locked into and nothing to license back from us. If you leave, you leave with a working website. The full terms.

Sometimes the answer is do not spend

If your site is fundamentally sound, the audit says so and lists what to fix instead. That answer costs £450 rather than the price of a new website, which is the point of doing it in that order. What if it is not worth doing?