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How much should a small business website cost in Cornwall?
From us: £25 a month on a pay-monthly plan with nothing upfront, £1,195 to £1,795 for a Fast-Track Website of up to 7 pages, or £2,495 to £7,995+ for a Bespoke Website, which is where shops start. A one-off build also needs a care plan, from £60 a month. Whoever you use, get the figure fixed in writing first.
Written by Leonard Millard
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| What you buy | Price | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-monthly plan | £25, £45, £65 or £85 a month | 1, 5, 15 or 50 pages. Built free, first month on us, billed every 30 days, no contract. We host and run it; it is managed, not owned. |
| Fast-Track Website | £1,195 to £1,795 | Up to 7 pages with a homepage designed for you, live within a week once your words and photos are in. Not for shops. |
| Bespoke Website | £2,495 to £7,995+ | Designed from a blank page, with your own login. Online shops, bookings and payments start here. |
| Care plan | £60, £120 or £240 a month | Keep, Grow or Lead. Required on every Fast-Track and Bespoke Website. Rolling monthly, no minimum term. |
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Each one is set out in full on our pricing page: the pay-monthly plans, the one-off builds, the care plans and the extras. The rest of this page is the part a price list cannot tell you: what the number buys, what it leaves out, and how the options compare once you add up two years.
How much does a web designer cost in the UK?
It depends who you ask, and the published range is wide enough to be useless on its own. At the bottom are template sites assembled in a day for a few hundred pounds. At the top are studios in Bristol or London with a team and an office to pay for. A café or a holiday let in North Cornwall sits in the middle, and in September 2026 the middle is roughly one to three thousand pounds for four to eight pages built by somebody who will still answer the phone in a year.
What moves the number is rarely the design. It is how many pages there are, whether anybody has to write the words, and whether the site takes bookings or money. A four-page site for a roofer and a forty-page site with an online shop are not the same work, and no honest quote treats them as if they were.
What is a fair price to pay for a website?
A fair price is one you can see the shape of before you pay it. You should be able to read, on one page, what is being built, who writes the words, who takes the photographs, what happens after it goes live and what it costs to change something in March. If a quote is a single number with no list under it, the list is where the argument will be later.
These are the five questions worth asking anyone who quotes you, including us.
- What exactly am I getting for that number, page by page?
- Is the price fixed in writing, or is it an estimate that can move once you start?
- Who writes the words, and who takes the photographs?
- What do I pay every month after launch, and what does that buy me?
- If I ring in eighteen months because the booking form has stopped, who picks up?
What moves the price of a website?
Within our own ranges, it is usually one of these:
- How many pages there are, and how much of the writing is already done
- Whether the site takes a booking, an order or a payment, or just a phone call
- Whether you want to change the words yourself, which needs a site with its own login
Those three point at the right option faster than a budget does. Nothing upfront and a site that simply needs to exist: the 5 Page Plan. Words and photos ready and a date to hit: the Fast-Track Website. Bookings, payments, an online shop, or your own login: the Bespoke Website. What the money buys changes with the trade, too: a holiday let, B&B or campsite is paying mostly for the availability and the direct booking, which is a different job from a menu and a phone number.
After a short call, through the contact form or the free website check, a range becomes one fixed price in writing before anything begins. It only changes if you add something, and then you get the new number first.
What costs does nobody mention?
The build is the number everybody compares. These are the ones that turn up afterwards, and what each costs from us.
| Cost | What it is | From us |
|---|---|---|
| Domain name | Your address on the web, renewed every year with whoever registers it. Usually somewhere around £10 to £20 a year. | Always yours, whichever plan you are on |
| Hosting and SSL | Somewhere for the site to live, and the padlock in the address bar | In the monthly fee on a pay-monthly plan, and in every care plan |
| The words | Somebody writing each page so it answers what customers ask | Copywriting £145 a page |
| Google Business Profile | The listing on the map, set up and verified properly | £90 |
| Photographs | Pictures that are yours, or licensed for your site | Stock photography £145; a real shoot priced per job |
| Changes after launch | A new page, a new section, next season's offer | New page £145 to £245, new section £70 to £145. The Grow care plan includes 30 minutes of changes a month and Lead 90; Keep has none |
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How much do web designers charge per month?
Two different monthly numbers get muddled together. The first is hosting and upkeep: somewhere for the site to live, backups, software updates and security. Ours is the care plan, from £60 a month for Keep and billed separately from the build. Every website you buy from us comes with one, and it rolls monthly with no minimum term. The care plan is what keeps a Fast-Track Website hosted, so if you stop it the site goes offline at the end of the billed period unless we agreed a hosting transfer in advance, and we help you take your content and domain with you.
The second is a payment plan that spreads the cost of the build. That can be the right answer when cash is thin in February. Before you sign one, ask what happens at the end of the term, whether the site is still yours when you stop paying, and who holds the domain name. Get the answers in writing, because that is the part nobody remembers agreeing. Ours are on the pricing page: a Fast-Track Website can be spread over 3 or 6 months, and a pay-monthly plan has no build cost at all, but it is managed rather than owned, so the site stays with us to host and run.
What does a website cost over two years?
The fair way to compare a monthly plan with a one-off build is to add both up over the same stretch. Here are two of ours side by side over the first 24 months: the 5 Page Plan, and a Fast-Track Website on the Keep care plan, the smallest one it can run on.
| 5 Page Plan | Fast-Track Website with the Keep care plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Build | £0 | £1,195 to £1,795 |
| Monthly fee | £45, with the first month on us | £60 from the first month |
| Months paid out of 24 | 23 | 24 |
| Monthly fees over two years | £45 × 23 = £1,035 | £60 × 24 = £1,440 |
| Two-year total | £1,035 | £1,195 + £1,440 = £2,635, up to £1,795 + £1,440 = £3,235 |
| Pages | 5 or more | Up to 7, with a homepage designed for you |
| If you stop paying | Offline at the end of the paid period. Come back and we switch it on again | Offline at the end of the paid period unless a hosting transfer was agreed in advance. We help you take your words and your domain |
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On those figures the 5 Page Plan costs £1,600 to £2,200 less over two years, and after that it is £45 a month against £60. What the Fast-Track money buys is a site built to your brief and paid for, live within a week once your words and photos are in, with the build spread over 3 or 6 months if you like. If you would rather keep the cash and let us run the site, the pay-monthly plan is the cheaper road. Neither total includes the extras in the table above.
Is a cheap website better than no website?
Often, yes. A one-page site with your hours, your number and a map beats a Facebook page that visitors cannot find on a Sunday. The trouble starts a year later, when the site is a job nobody owns.
of UK businesses have a website. It is 65% of sole traders and 74% of micro businesses, so about a third of UK businesses still have no website of their own.
How much do small business owners pay for a website?
There is no British survey we trust on this. The nearest usable figure comes from the United States, and it is worth reading for the shape rather than the number.
of small businesses with a website had the build outsourced to an agency, and 90% planned to invest in their website again within twelve months. US survey of 406 small business owners.
That is the honest case for paying somebody: not that you could not do it, but that the version you build in the quiet fortnight in January is the version that is still there in three years.
What to do about it
- Write down the one thing you want the site to do: fill a table, take a booking, get the phone to ring, sell a voucher. One thing.
- Ask two or three people for a fixed price in writing, with the pages listed.
- Compare the monthly numbers as carefully as the build numbers, and ask what you own at the end.
- Send us the address of the site you already have. We will tell you, free, whether it needs rebuilding or just fixing, and roughly what each would cost.
That last one is the free website check. A real person looks at your site on a real phone and writes back. If it is fine, we will say so.
Quick questions about cost
Is there a setup fee on a pay-monthly plan?
No. We build the site at no cost, the first month is on us, and after that you pay the monthly fee for your size of site: £25 for one page, £45 for five or more, £65 for fifteen or more with a blog, and £85 for fifty or more. Billing rolls every 30 days and there is no contract.
Can I spread the cost of a Fast-Track Website?
Yes. A Fast-Track Website, £1,195 to £1,795 for up to 7 pages, can be paid over 3 or 6 months. The care plan is billed separately from the build, from £60 a month on the Keep plan, and it rolls monthly with no minimum term, so you are never tied in to the upkeep.
Why does a one-off build still need a monthly care plan?
Because a website is not finished the day it goes live. The care plan pays for the hosting, the SSL certificate, backups, software updates and uptime checks that keep it safe and working. Every Fast-Track and Bespoke Website we build comes with one. Keep is £60 a month, Grow £120 and Lead £240, and you can move between them whenever you like.
Are changes after launch included?
Some are, on the right plan. The Grow care plan includes 30 minutes of changes a month and Lead includes 90. Keep covers hosting and upkeep but no change time. Beyond that, a new page is £145 to £245 and a new section on an existing page is £70 to £145, priced before we start.
What happens to a pay-monthly site if I cancel?
It stays live to the end of the period you have paid for, then goes offline. Pay-monthly sites are managed, not owned: we build, host and run them, and the code and design cannot be moved to another host. Your words, photos and domain are always yours, and if you come back we switch the site on again at the same address.