What a website costs for a small business
Website quotes vary wildly because the word website covers everything from a single page to a two language publishing system. Here is what actually drives the number.
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Websites that explain what you actually do
Most people who get in touch already have a website. The problem is rarely that it looks dated. The problem is that it does not explain the work well enough for anyone to make contact.
A website has one job: making it easy for the right person to understand what you can help with, and easy to take the next step. Everything else is detail in support of that.
So Splenix does not start with colour. We start with who the page is for, what they are wondering about, and what they should do once they have read it. Once that is settled the rest of the decisions get easier and the page gets shorter.
Who this is for
Small businesses with a site that fell behind
You already have customers, but the site shows work you did five years ago. It needs rebuilding without disrupting the day job, and without losing what does work today.
Founders about to meet their first customers
You have no reputation to lean on yet, so the site has to do the work alone. It does not need to be big. It needs to be clear, and it needs to look like somebody thought about it.
Nonprofit organizations
You need to be found, understood and contacted, and the content has to be editable by people who do not work with websites daily. Budgets are usually tight, so the money should go where it matters.
Established teams with nobody owning it
The site works, but no one is responsible for it. That is how a site decays quietly until nobody dares touch it. This can be fixed without rebuilding everything.
What is included
- Working out who the site is for and what it needs to achieve
- Structure and copy, together with you or drafted for your review
- Design shaped by your content rather than a template you get pushed into
- English and Norwegian as equal versions when you need both
- Technical SEO, metadata, sitemap and structured data from day one
- A contact form that genuinely sends email, with spam protection and a privacy note
- Testing on phone, tablet and desktop, from a keyboard and with a screen reader
- A handover so you can change content yourself, and know where to ask
How it works
Conversation
We talk about what you do, who you want to reach and what is annoying right now. No cost and no commitment.
Proposal and plan
You get scope, price and timing in writing. If something is uncertain it says so, rather than being buried inside a single number.
Content and design
We go through copy, images and structure before anything is built. You see the direction early and can change course while changing course is still cheap.
Build and launch
The site is built in steps you can look at along the way. Domain, email and forms are configured and tested before anything goes live.
What drives the price
The price follows the scope, not a price list. What moves it most is how many pages have their own content, how much of the design is built from scratch rather than built on a structure that already exists, and how much copy and imagery has to be created rather than moved across.
Then there is what the site has to do. Forms that send and collect the right things, integrations with something else such as a booking system or a payment provider, and whether all of it exists in two languages. Search work and support after launch belong in the same list, and either can be done now or later. Technical complexity is really just the sum of all of that.
You always get a written proposal with scope and price before work starts. If something is uncertain at that point, it says so.
The article on what a website costs goes deeper into what pushes the number up and down, and how to compare two quotes that look nothing alike.
Common questions about websites
Do I need the copy ready in advance?
No. Most people arrive with a few notes and an old site. We work out what should be said and in what order, and you get drafts you can adjust. You know your field best, so the content ends up yours.
Can Splenix take over an existing website?
Often yes. We look first at how it was built, what platform it sits on and what genuinely needs to change. Sometimes the right answer is repairing what exists rather than rebuilding everything.
Do I own the site afterwards?
Yes. Code, domain and content are yours, and you are free to move all of it to someone else. You are not locked into a platform you cannot leave.
How long does it take?
Mostly it depends on how quickly the content is ready. A small site can be done in a few weeks when the copy and images already exist. Extra languages and integrations take longer, and you get a schedule with the proposal.
Do you build on WordPress?
Not by default. The platform depends on who updates the content and how often. If you need to publish regularly, we say so. If you do not, you avoid paying for and maintaining a system you never use.
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Tell us about the site you need
A few sentences about your situation is enough. You get an honest answer on what it would take, including when the answer is that you need less than you thought.