How Much Does a Small Business Website Cost? (Hampshire, 2026)

How much does a small business website cost? With me, a fixed £500 for one page, £950 for up to five pages, or £2,500 for up to twelve with full local SEO, all ex VAT. No "it depends". Here's what's in each, what it costs to keep running, and what a real build looked like.

What does a small business website cost in the UK?

Most UK guides give a spread of roughly £500 to £5,000 for a small-business website. Both ends can be fair. At the bottom you usually get one person and a few pages. At the top you usually get an agency: a project manager, a designer, a developer and a few meetings.

What actually moves the price is simpler than it looks:

• How many pages. One page for a phone number, or a page for every service you sell.
• Who writes the words. Copy is where most of the time goes.
• Anything custom. A quote tool, a filtered gallery, a form that asks the right follow-up questions.
• Who looks after it afterwards. Hosting, backups, edits.

What I charge, and exactly what's in £500

Here's my price list, fixed, before I start. Each pack includes everything in the one before it.

• The Pup, £500. One page, mobile-perfect, with the words written for you, a contact form and a map, and a tidy-up of your Google Business Profile. Live in a week.
• The Good Boy, £950. The one most people pick. Up to five pages, copy and on-page SEO written for you, hand-drawn touches and motion, and an enquiry form built to convert. Two to three weeks once I have your photos and answers.
• The Top Dog, £2,500. Up to twelve pages, full local SEO (profile, listings, a page for each town you serve), a bespoke tool, a socials launch month, email set up and three months of the Care Plan included.

Prices exclude VAT; if your business isn't VAT registered, the price you see is what you pay. So if you're asking how much a five-page website costs: with me, £950. For a feel of a multi-page site, P1 Wraps has a page for each of its thirteen services and a gallery filtered by service.

What a real build looked like: V Signs

V Signs is a sign and wrap company near Petersfield with more than twenty years behind it. Their job was bigger than any pack: 59 pages, including 21 service pages and 11 town pages, plus two tools. The Sign Finder asks eight plain-English questions and recommends the right service. The gallery puts an "I want something like this" button on every photo, so the enquiry arrives with the picture the customer was looking at.

The website was one part of a six-month engagement that also covered their Google Business Profile, listings and social media. The brief came in on 6 June 2026, and the site went live on their own domain on 5 September, after the content, the SEO work and a full pre-launch audit.

The costs nobody quotes

The build is only the first number. Here's the rest:

• Your domain. A .co.uk renews at roughly £12 to £27 a year, depending on the registrar. I help you register it and you pay that yearly cost. If you ever move it elsewhere, the transfer is £25.
• Hosting. The Kennel is £35 a month: hosting, daily backups, SSL, updates and email support. Monthly, no contract.
• Edits. Text and images you can change yourself by clicking them on the live page. If you'd rather I did it, the Care Plan is £250 a month for monthly edits, new sections and same-day support.
• Email. Mailboxes from Google or Microsoft are charged per user, whoever builds your site.

So, first-year totals with me: £920 for the Pup plus the Kennel, £1,370 for the Good Boy plus the Kennel, plus your domain. Year two is £420 of hosting plus the domain. Once the build is paid, the site is yours. If you stop hosting, it comes down 30 days later and you get your site files with instructions to host them anywhere. More on what happens if you stop paying for hosting.

When it costs more than a pack

The packs cover what most small businesses need. Some jobs are bigger, and I quote those on their own:

• An online shop. I build shops on WooCommerce, SureCart and Magento, sized to how many products you sell and how you take payment.
• A custom tool or app. A quote calculator, a booking system, customer logins, a client portal: the parts of your business that a template can't do.

These are still fixed prices, agreed before I start. The difference is the scope, not who builds it.

How to get a straight quote from anyone

Whoever you talk to, ask these five questions:

1. Is that a fixed price, and what exactly is in it?
2. Who writes the words?
3. What will it cost me each year after launch?
4. Who registers the domain, and what does it cost to move it?
5. What happens if I stop paying, and what do I leave with?

If you're also weighing up doing it yourself, I've done the Squarespace and Wix maths over three years too.

Want a number for your business? Tell me what you need and I'll come back with a fixed price.

Mark Jarvis

Born in Petersfield in 1986, now based in Poland. Twenty-five years running real businesses, and now I build websites, local SEO and socials for Hampshire small businesses. Every price I quote is on one page.