What it actually costs.
Most design sites make you ring up to find out. Here are the real starting points, what moves them, and what you get for the money. If the number is wrong for you, better we both know now than after two meetings.
Websites
Prices are for a designed site, not a template with your logo dropped in. Every build includes mobile-first layout, proper page structure for search, analytics wired in, and a real conversation about what the site is for before anything is designed.
One-page site
A single, focused page — what you do, proof, one clear action. The right answer on a tight budget: shrink the scope, not the standard.
Best for: Testing an idea, a single service, a launchBrochure site
Home, about, services, contact. Custom design, written properly, fast on a phone. The size most small businesses actually need.
Best for: Trades, consultants, local servicesBusiness site
Room for separate service pages, locations or sectors — the structure that lets each page rank for its own search rather than competing with the others.
Best for: Multi-service or multi-location firmsOnline shop
Shopify or WooCommerce, set up around your catalogue rather than a demo store. Price moves with product count and variants, not with page count.
Best for: Selling products directlyHosting — £15/month
Fast UK hosting, SSL, backups. Cancel any time — the site is yours.
Care plan — £45/month
Updates, security patching, small content changes. WordPress builds only; static sites rarely need it.
Brand & logo
A logo you own outright, in every format you will ever be asked for — including the black-and-white version that most cheap logos never had.
Logo design
A designer thinking about your business specifically, from a blank page. Multiple directions, then refinement. Print and screen files, colour and mono.
Best for: New businesses, rebrands on a budgetBrand identity
Logo plus the system around it — colour, type, how it behaves at sign size and stamp size, and written guidelines so it survives contact with other suppliers.
Best for: Businesses with more than one touchpointFull brand programme
Research, competitor mapping, naming support, complete guidelines, and a senior designer staying on the project rather than handing it to a junior after the pitch.
Best for: When there is real money riding on the brandSignage & vehicle design
Design and artwork only — manufacture and fitting are quoted separately by the maker. Files go out to submission standard, ready for the sign company or the planning department.
Van graphics artwork
Layout designed to the actual panels of your vehicle, cut-ready. Readable at thirty miles an hour, which is the only test that counts.
Best for: One van, or a fleet templateShop front & fascia design
Fascia layout, materials guidance and a visual on a photograph of your actual frontage, so you see it before you commit.
Best for: New shop fronts, refitsPlanning drawings
Scale drawings to the standard councils accept — needed for illuminated signs, listed buildings and conservation areas.
Best for: When consent is requiredPrint & marketing
Artwork supplied press-ready: bleed, crop marks, CMYK, outlined type. Printers stop ringing you with problems.
Business cards & stationery
Card, letterhead and compliment slip as one consistent set, press-ready.
Best for: New businesses, rebrandsLeaflet or flyer
One message, one action, designed to survive the four seconds a door-drop actually gets.
Best for: Local campaignsBrochure
Multi-page layout with a structure that carries a reader through rather than a gallery of paragraphs.
Best for: Considered purchasesWhat moves the price
Page or product count. The biggest single factor on a website. Twenty products is an afternoon; two thousand needs a feed and a mapping exercise.
Who writes the copy. You writing it is free and slower. Us writing it costs more and launches sooner. Both are fine — undecided is what causes delays.
Photography. Usable photos you own, or stock, or a shoot. Stock is a fallback, not a plan.
Integrations. Booking, payments, a CRM, stock syncing to another system. Each one is real work and none of it is visible on the page.
Deadline. A real fixed date sometimes costs more. "Ideally soon" never does.
What is not in these numbers
Printing and manufacture — we design the artwork, the printer or sign maker quotes production separately, and you are free to use whoever you like. Photography, unless we have agreed a shoot. Domain registration, which you should buy yourself in your own name for about £10 a year. And VAT.
How quoting works
A free 30-minute conversation, then a fixed written quote with the scope written down. The price does not move afterwards unless you change what you asked for — and if you do, you get a revised figure before the work happens, not on the invoice.
Questions we answer every week
Are these prices fixed?
They are honest starting points, not a menu. You get a fixed written quote after we have talked about the actual job — and the quote does not move afterwards unless you change the scope.
Why do you publish prices when most agencies do not?
Because "contact us for a quote" wastes both our afternoons. If the number is wrong for you, better we both find out now.
Do you take payment in stages?
Yes — typically a deposit to book the work and the balance on completion. Larger projects are split across milestones.
Is VAT included?
Prices exclude VAT.
What if my budget is under the lowest price here?
Say so. Sometimes the right answer is a smaller scope done properly; sometimes it is that we are not the right supplier, and we will tell you that rather than sell you something thin.
Do I own the files?
Yes. Source files, domain registered in your name, and nothing held back if you leave. A supplier who keeps your assets has stopped competing on the work.
Get a real number for your job
Thirty minutes, no obligation, and a fixed written quote afterwards.
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