"How much does a website cost?" is one of the hardest questions to get a straight answer to, because the range genuinely runs from $0 to $50,000+. Here is what actually drives that range, and real numbers for a small business site.
Typical website pricing by type
DIY builders
roughly $16 to $50 a month, forever, plus your own time to design, write, and maintain it. No build cost, but an ongoing subscription and a generic template underneath.
Freelance designers
commonly $500 to $3,000 for a small business site, plus hosting and a domain you usually arrange and pay for separately.
Agencies
$5,000 to $50,000+, generally for larger sites with custom functionality, often with an ongoing retainer.
Hidden costs to watch for anywhere you go
domain registration (~$15/year), hosting (~$5–$30+/month), business email, SSL, and ongoing maintenance are sometimes bundled and sometimes billed separately, and it is easy to miss when comparing quotes.
What Lui Designs charges
Starter Site
A one-page website with up to five menu links, mobile-ready, a contact form, and your business set up on Google Maps. Live in a few days.
Business Site
The most popular tier: up to twelve pages with a blog, the SEO-ready and AI-ready build included (a $395 value), a walkthrough when it ships, and a free professional logo included (a $300 value).
Online Store
A full WooCommerce store with up to 50 products loaded (more are billed hourly), payments connected, and shipping configured — plus the same free logo as Business Site.
New Business Launch
A complete ecommerce build for businesses starting from scratch: product/service catalog, payment processing, online booking and checkout, discount tools, an analytics dashboard, and a free logo.
Every package includes a free domain name, email, and hosting for the first year. After that, hosting, domain and email continue at one flat monthly rate ($25–$55 a month depending on the package, covering hosting, domain renewal and one email mailbox) — no contracts, cancel any time, and the domain and site stay yours either way. Every package is otherwise a flat, one-time build price.
What that price actually includes
Unlike a lot of web design quotes, the domain name, business email, and hosting are not separate line items added on top — they are bundled in free for the first year on every package, and every site includes daily backups, uptime monitoring, and malware scanning from day one.
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