How Much Does a Website Cost in Guildford? Work Out the Three-Year Figure

We will not guess other people's prices

You will find articles that give a price range for "a website in Guildford". We do not have those figures, and a range wide enough to be true is no use to you anyway. Designers set their own prices. Ask them.

What we can give you is a way to compare any quotes you get, and the one price we know for certain, because it is our own.

The one fixed price we can state

Dean Keating, the publisher of Guildford.co, builds websites for £500 one-off. You own the site outright. There is no contract and no monthly fee. It has 200+ pages built around your services and the areas you cover, 12 months of SEO is included, and you see a preview before it goes live.

He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, and builds for Guildford businesses remotely. See what the £500 covers.

Work out the three-year figure

The headline price is the wrong number to compare. Put each quote through the same sum.

1. What do I pay before the site goes live?
2. What do I pay each month or each year after that, and for what?
3. Add the first figure to three years of the second.
4. If I stopped paying tomorrow, what would I be left with?

The fourth line matters as much as the total. A site you own is still there. A site you rent is not.

The three ways you can be charged

You make it yourself. You pay a subscription to a website builder for as long as the site is up. The money is small. The time is yours, and so is the writing.

You pay monthly. A designer builds the site for little or nothing up front and charges every month. It is easy to start. Check the minimum term, and check who owns the site.

You pay once. A designer builds the site for a fee and it is yours. Ask what running costs follow, such as the domain name and hosting, and who you pay them to.

Running costs: ask, do not assume

Every website has a domain name and has to be hosted somewhere. Who arranges those, and what they cost, differs from one designer to the next. We are not going to quote figures for it here. Ask every designer, us included, to write down what you will pay after launch and what happens after any included period ends.

Why two quotes can be far apart

They are rarely for the same thing. Check the number of pages. Check who writes the words. Check whether there is a page for each service and each area, or one page that lists them. Check whether any work to get the site found is included, and for how long. Check what a change costs once the site is live.

A solicitor near the High Street and a heating engineer covering GU1 to GU4 should not expect the same quote, because they do not need the same site.

Get more than one quote

Guildford.co ranks web designers in Guildford on their Google reviews. Ask two or three of them for a written quote and run each through the sum above, next to the £500 figure.

Then read who builds websites for small businesses in Guildford for the questions to ask. If you are not sure a website is worth the money at all, do I need a website? is the place to start. Trades have their own guide.

Contact

Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Guildford.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.

About this guide

Guildford.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, not in Guildford, and works with Guildford businesses remotely. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.