The numbers you will hear

Around Huddersfield, Leeds and Halifax a simple one page site can be a few hundred to about a thousand. A proper small business site, written properly, is usually somewhere between one and four thousand. A shop or a booking system costs more.

A quote far below that is often a template with a logo dropped in. Sometimes that is fine. Just know what you are buying.

What actually changes the price

Not page count. Thinking does. Getting the words right. Deciding what belongs on the front page. Real photos of the work instead of stock.

Ease of editing matters too. A cheaper site that you cannot update will cost you again in two years.

How to think about it

What is one good new customer worth over a year? If a decent job is worth a couple of thousand, a site that brings in one of those is not really a cost.

The money gets wasted on pages nobody reads, and on rebuilding because the first site could not be changed. Start with a site that looks like the company, brings in work, and can be edited. That is the spend that holds up.