Road one
Pay someone to build it
- $1,000 to $5,000upfront for a web designer, per Website Builder Expert, page updated December 5, 2025
- Six to ten weeksfrom the first meeting to going live
- $501 to $5,000 a yearafterwards, which WebFX says is what most businesses spend on a site each year, read September 3, 2026
You’ll be invited to a discovery workshop. You’ll be sent a mood board. Somewhere in week five you’ll be asked to sign off on wireframes, and you won’t be sure what you are looking at. Then it goes live and every change is a ticket, and every ticket is a line on next month’s invoice, and after a while you stop asking for the changes.
Go to an agency rather than a freelancer and the same small business site runs $10,000 to $35,000, on Elementor’s own figures, read September 3, 2026. For a two-van plumbing company that’s an extraordinary sum of money to spend on nine pages of text.
