If you have asked three web designers what a small business website costs, you probably got three very different answers, and none of them explained why. That is normal. Anyone who quotes a number without knowing what the site has to do is guessing. This article is for small business owners across the United States […]
Ask three providers to build a website for your plumbing company, clinic or boutique and you may get three quotes that differ by a factor of ten. All three will call it “a website.” If you run a small business in the US or Canada, you have probably wondered what you would actually get for […]
The traditional way to get a website is to pay a designer once and own the result. For many small businesses in the US and Canada that route has an awkward side: a big payment up front, and then a site that still needs updates, working forms, security and small fixes for as long as […]
A website proposal can look tidy and professional and still tell you almost nothing. It is packed with words like “custom design,” “responsive,” “SEO-ready,” “hosting” and “support,” and by the time you reach the total, you are not sure what you are buying. If you are a small business owner in the US or Canada […]
The day your website goes live is the start of the bills, not the end of them. A site needs a domain that stays registered, hosting that stays on, software that stays patched, backups that actually work and content that stays true. If you do not plan for those costs up front, they tend to […]
A cheap website is not automatically a bad one. Plenty of small businesses in the US and Canada need nothing more than a simple start: a few pages, a phone number, a contact form and an honest description of what they do. The trouble begins when a low-cost site is sold as a finished solution […]
