Price and what is included
Website builds are $500, flat, quoted and agreed before we start. There are no hourly charges, nothing is added to the bill later, and there is no monthly fee of any kind.
The price covers design, build, testing on phones, tablets and computers, basic setup so search engines can read the site correctly, launch, and handoff.
It does not cover fees charged by other companies, which you pay directly and which we will always tell you about before anything is bought:
- Domain registration and renewal (typically $10–$20 a year).
- Website hosting, if your chosen host is a paid one.
- Business email, if you want an address at your own domain.
- Paid stock photography, fonts or plugins, if you want something licensed.
Anything outside the agreed scope — extra pages, a second round of new content, features discussed after the quote — is quoted separately and never started without you saying yes to the price first.
Ownership and handoff
The finished website and its web address belong to you. Not to us, and not to a platform you have to keep paying. Once the final invoice is settled, ownership of the design and the site files transfers to you outright.
At launch we hand over everything: the site files, the domain and hosting logins, and any accounts we set up on your behalf. Accounts are registered in your name and with your email wherever the provider allows it, so nothing depends on us still being around.
Two things we keep. We retain ownership of our own underlying tools, code libraries and techniques, which we reuse across projects — you get an unrestricted licence to the site they produced, not the toolbox. And we reserve the right to show the finished site in our portfolio and on social media, unless you ask us in writing not to, which is always fine and never costs you anything.
Your content, and what you are promising us
You confirm that you own, or have permission to use, everything you send us — text, photos, logos, fonts, reviews and anything else. We have no practical way to verify that, so we rely on you.
You are responsible for the accuracy and legality of what your site says: prices, claims, licence numbers, professional disclaimers, and any rules specific to your trade. If a claim on your site causes a problem, that sits with you, and you agree to cover us for any third-party claim arising from material you supplied.
We will not build a site whose purpose is illegal, deceptive, or targets a person for harassment. We may decline or stop a project on those grounds and refund anything paid for work not yet done.
After launch
For 30 days after launch we will fix anything that is broken in what we built, free. That means genuine faults — a form that stops sending, a layout that breaks on a phone, a link that goes nowhere.
It does not cover new content or changes of mind — new photos, updated prices, an added page. Those are quoted separately, usually small, and we are happy to do them.
There is no ongoing maintenance plan and no retainer. Once the site is yours, you can call us for changes, do them yourself, or hand the whole thing to somebody else. That is the point of you owning it.
What we do not promise
We build sites to load fast, work on phones, and be readable by search engines. We set up the technical groundwork properly and we will tell you honestly what we think it will do.
We cannot and do not guarantee search rankings, traffic, phone calls, or revenue. Nobody can — Google's results are not ours to control, and they change. Any figure we mention is an example of what is possible, not a promise of what you will get.
The website scorecard we hand out for free is an automated assessment offered as-is. It is a useful starting point, not an audit, and no professional relationship is created by requesting one.