How much does a website cost in Mansfield?

The honest ranges

Website pricing is opaque because most agencies will not publish it, which means the only way to find out is a phone call where someone works out what you can afford. Here is what things actually cost with us, and roughly what you get.

• From £250 — a small brochure site. Up to five pages, custom design, mobile-first, contact form, click-to-call, Google Business Profile set up, analytics configured. Enough to exist online properly and take enquiries.
• £500 to £1,200 — a service-led site. Ten to twenty pages, a page per service written to rank, copywriting included, full schema markup, local SEO groundwork, conversion tracking. This is what most established local businesses need.
• From £750 — ecommerce. Product and category structure, payments, delivery rules, click-and-collect. Rises to £1,200 to £2,000 with large catalogues, trade pricing or stock system integration.
• From £95 — a single landing page for an advertising campaign. One page, one goal, built to convert paid traffic.

What actually moves the price

Two quotes for "a website" can differ by a factor of five and both be honest, because they are describing different amounts of work. These are the variables that matter:

• Page count. A five-page site and a forty-page site are genuinely different jobs.
• Whether you supply content. Copywriting and photography are often half the work on a small site.
• Functionality. Booking, payments, logins, memberships and integrations each add real hours.
• Migration. Moving an existing site means auditing every URL and mapping redirects, which takes time but protects your rankings.
• Whether SEO is built in or bolted on later. Retrofitting always costs more.

The costs people forget

The build price is not the total. Budget for these too, and be suspicious of anyone who does not mention them:

• Domain name — roughly £12 a year for a .co.uk. You should own this, in your name.
• Hosting — £5 to £15 a month for a normal business site. More for ecommerce.
• Maintenance — optional, £10 to £45 a month. Worth it on anything with a database or plugins.
• Email — free with some hosting, or £5 to £12 per user per month on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
• SSL certificate — should be free and included. If someone charges you £80 a year for one, ask why.

What to be careful of

There are two pricing models that cost more than they appear to. The first is the monthly-only website: £30 a month forever, no upfront cost, and you never own it. Over five years that is £1,800 and you have nothing. If you stop paying, the site goes off.

The second is the very cheap one-off build with no ongoing support and no handover. Cheap is fine — we are cheap — but you should still finish the project owning the domain, the hosting account, the files and the analytics. Ask that question before you pay a deposit, not after.

How to compare quotes properly

Ask every quote the same five questions and the differences become obvious:

• Who owns the website, the domain and the content when it is finished?
• Is the copy written for me, or am I supplying it?
• How many pages, and what happens if I need more later?
• What does it cost per month afterwards, and what does that include?
• Can I edit it myself, and will you show me how?