Guides
Straight answers about cheap websites.
No invented awards. No “rank #1 overnight.” What the prices mean, when DIY is enough, and when to pay someone.
How much does a small business website cost in 2026?
What $0, $27, $500, $1,000, and $8,000 actually buy. Honest ranges for DIY builders, a done-for-you marketing site, and agencies.
CompareWix vs hiring someone to build the site
Wix looks cheap until you count your time, the template ceiling, and the monthly bill. When DIY is enough — and when a $500 site is cheaper.
CompareSquarespace is pretty. You still do not own the house.
Squarespace looks finished on day one. You still pay rent, and moving off it later is a project. What a one-time marketing site includes instead.
CompareThe $50 Fiverr website and what you actually get
Fiverr can be $50. It can also be a missing source file, a cloned template, and nobody to call. What you should ask before you buy either.
$27 packYou might only need one page. That is $27.
When a single page is enough: hours, phone, offer, photos. $27 for the page, +$27 if you want it hosted on our server for life.
How we workUnder 72 hours is a process, not a slogan
Most standard marketing sites here are done in under 72 hours if the brief is clear. What slows a build, and what does not.
Social vs a siteA Facebook page is not a website
Facebook is a rental. The page can vanish, ads sit on top of it, and customers without an account still need a URL they can bookmark.
CompareGoDaddy Website Builder vs paying once
GoDaddy’s builder is convenient if the domain already lives there. You still pay rent, and leaving is a rebuild. When a one-time site is cheaper.
CompareWordPress vs a done-for-you marketing site
WordPress is a CMS, not a website. Plugins, updates, and a login you will ignore. When a simple custom marketing site is the better product.
CompareShopify is a store. A brochure site is not.
Shopify is for checkout. A $1,000 marketing site is not a cart. How to tell which one you actually need — and what we will not fake at this price.
Start hereWhen a website is worth it vs staying on social
Honest cases where Instagram or Facebook is enough — and the moment a real URL starts paying for itself. $27, $500, or $1,000.
RedesignRebuild it or patch it
A new coat of paint on a broken form is still a broken form. When a redesign is the cheaper move, and when it is not.
LocalGoogle Business Profile is not your website
GBP gets you on the map. A website is the page you own. You need both. Neither replaces the other.
Tampa / FloridaCheap websites from Tampa. We ship worldwide.
Bill is in Tampa. The shop builds marketing sites worldwide, 24/7, for $1,000 — or $500 if you pay in full by September 30, 2026.
SEOBasic SEO is tags. It is not a ranking prize.
Title, meta, Open Graph. That is the SEO in a $1,000 marketing site. Not a #1 Google prize. What we put in, and what we will not claim.
SetupDomain, DNS, and hosting without the fog
The name, the nameservers, the host. What you buy, what we connect, and what still has to be a human click at the registrar.
SpeedYou can be live this weekend. Pick the right product.
Need something live by Monday? The $27 one-page pack vs the $500 / $1,000 marketing site that usually ships in under 72 hours.
Fix thisWebsites fail on boring things
The form 404s. There is no tap-to-call. No HTTPS padlock. Stock photos of a city you do not live in. The boring reasons customers bounce.
SetupAfter you buy a domain, you still need a site
The name is a lease. DNS, hosting, and files are separate. What to click next so yourname.com actually loads something.
CompareA Canva website is a poster with a URL
Canva is a design tool that grew a website. Fine for a flyer. A weak company homepage. What you get, what you cannot take with you, and when to pay once instead.
CompareCarrd is a toolkit. $27 is a finished page.
Carrd is a good DIY one-pager if you like clicking. $27 is the same job without the editor. When to stay on Carrd, when to pay someone.
ChurchesA church website that shows when you meet
Service times, address, who you are, how to visit. A church site people can use on a phone this Sunday — not a 2014 bulletin PDF.
Contact pathA form or a phone number — you usually need both
A form that never arrives is worse than no form. When tap-to-call is enough, when you need both, and how the contact path should actually work.
TradesA contractor site needs jobs, a town list, and a form
Photos of finished work, the towns you actually serve, a form that works on a jobsite phone. What belongs on a contractor site.
After launchMost brochure sites do not need a monthly babysitter
A marketing site is not WordPress with twelve plugins. When a retainer is real, when it is rent, and what we actually change after launch.
SetupPut email on the same name as the website
you@yourname.com looks like a company. A Gmail does not. How domain email ties to DNS and the site — and what you still have to click.
CompareHostinger AI drafts a site. You still have to finish it.
Hostinger’s AI can spit a template in minutes. You still write the hours, pick the photos, and own the mistakes. When that is enough — and when it isn’t.
Fix thisNo lock icon, no customer
A browser “Not secure” warning is a closed door. SSL is part of hosting, not a prize. Why the padlock matters on a $1,000 marketing site.
Social vs a siteAn Instagram is not a website
Instagram is a rental. Posts rot, the bio is one link, and customers without the app still need a URL they can bookmark.
CompareYou can leave Squarespace. The site does not come with you.
You keep the name. You do not keep the editor. What export actually gives you, what a rebuild costs, and when staying is cheaper.
Leaving a builderLeaving Wix is a rebuild. Price it that way.
Wix export is not a full website. Moving off it is a rebuild. What you keep, what you lose, and what a one-time marketing site costs instead of another year of rent.
Social vs a siteLinktree is a list. A website is a place.
Linktree is a list of buttons. It is not hours, a tap-to-call number, or a page you own. When a link-in-bio is enough — and when it is not.
PhonesA mobile website is just a website that works on a thumb
Most customers are on a phone in a parking lot. Tap-to-call, readable type, no pinch-and-hope. You do not need a second “mobile site.”
PricingThe monthly builder bill is a second job with rent
$16–$40 a month looks small. Two years of rent plus your weekends is often more than a site you pay for once. The honest math.
NonprofitsA group site does one job. Then it stops.
One job per URL: who you help, how to give or join. $27, $500, $1,000. Honest copy. No fake contests.
Pricing guideA restaurant website costs what the page has to do
A parking-lot page is not a 40-page brand book. $27, $500, $1,000, and when you actually need a store or an ordering app.
CopyPut the price up if you will actually honor it
Publish a number when the number is real and you will honor it. Hide it when every job is a quote. How to decide without playing games.
Compare$27 is a page. $500 is a site you pay in full.
The one-page pack vs the pay-in-full marketing site. They are different products. $100 down is the $1,000 job, not the sale.
CopyWrite the site like you want the phone to ring
Hours, the work, a phone a thumb can hit. How to write a small-business homepage a stranger can use in ten seconds. No “unlock.” No fake awards.
Side hustleA side hustle website is optional until it isn’t
When a second income can live on DMs — and when a $27 page or a done-for-you marketing site starts catching work you currently drop.
PhotosUse the phone in your pocket. Skip the stock library.
Phone photos of the real place beat stock plates and stock handshakes. What to shoot, what to skip, and how we use what you send.
Leads vs a siteBuying leads is not the same as owning a website
Lead mills sell you other people’s leftovers. A website is a page you own. When buying leads still makes sense — and when a URL is the cheaper asset.
CompareWeebly is a mall kiosk. Hiring is a contractor.
Weebly is a rented Square editor: easy to start, hard to leave. When DIY is enough — and when paying once for a site you can move is cheaper.
$27 packA one-page website is a list, not a magazine
Hours, phone, offer, three photos. That is a one-page. Skip the blog, the popup, and the fake cart. $27 pack vs the full marketing site.
OwnershipIf you cannot pick it up, you do not own it
A builder login is not ownership. Files, domain, hosting, and the moment you cannot leave. What you should get in writing.
SEOGoogle is not hiding you as a prank
A new site is not a ranking. Indexing, Google Business Profile, titles, and the boring reasons you are invisible. No #1 promises.