"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 (Wix, Squarespace, Shopify) — 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 — $395. Up to five pages, mobile-ready, a contact form, and your business set up on Google Maps. Live in about a week.
• Business Site — $795. The most popular tier: up to twelve pages with a blog, basic search setup, a walkthrough when it ships, and a free professional logo included (a $300 value).
• Online Store — $1,495. A full WooCommerce store with up to 100 products loaded, payments connected, and shipping configured — plus the same free logo as Business Site.
• New Business Launch — $795. 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 continues at one flat monthly rate ($20–$50 depending on the package) — 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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Need a logo too? Here’s what a logo actually costs.

"How much should a logo cost?" comes up before almost every branding project, and the honest answer is "it depends what you’re starting with" — but the ranges are predictable once you know the categories.

Typical logo pricing by type

• DIY logo makers (Canva, Looka, free AI tools) — $0 to $50, but you get whatever the tool produces: no real concept work, often no true vector file, and a mark that other businesses can end up with a near-identical version of.
• Freelance designers — commonly $150 to $800 depending on experience and how many revisions are included.
• Design agencies — $2,000 to $10,000+, usually bundled with full brand strategy and guidelines documents — built for larger companies, not most small businesses.
• Cleaning up or vectorizing an existing logo — usually far cheaper than starting from scratch, since the concept work is already done.

What Lui Designs charges

Two packages cover most small businesses:

• Essential Logo — $100. For anyone who already has a logo — a sketch, an AI-generated draft, or an old design — and needs it cleaned up, redrawn, or vectorized. Includes 3 reworked versions, a first draft the next business day, and final files emailed within 24 hours of approval. A drawing or current design to work from is required.
• Full Brand Identity — $300. A complete logo built from scratch: 6 original full-color concepts, a color and black-and-white version, 3 redraw concepts plus unlimited revisions, a first draft the next day, final files within 24 hours of approval, and 500 free printed color business cards to launch with.

Both are flat, one-time prices — no retainer, no hourly surprises, no subscription.

Get a logo for free

If a new logo is part of a bigger project, it may already be covered: a professional logo (normally a $300 value) is included at no extra charge with the Business Site or Online Store website packages — worth knowing before paying for a logo and a website separately.

What to watch for with cheap logos

The lowest-cost options tend to cut one of three corners: no vector source file (so the logo can’t be resized or edited later without recreating it), no real variations (one file, one color, one use case), or an AI-generated mark that closely resembles thousands of other AI-generated marks — none of which shows up on the price tag, only after the fact.

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Need a website too? Here’s the real breakdown of what a small business website costs.