Your website needs photos of your actual premises, your work and your team — roughly 10 to 20 images. A modern phone in good light is sufficient for most small businesses, and real photos consistently outperform stock photography because customers can tell the difference.
The most common thing that holds up a small business website is photos. It is also the thing people most overestimate the difficulty of.
One-page site
Live and working
Domain and content
Care plan is monthly
A specific list for your trade, so you are not guessing what is needed.
The front of your premises so people recognise it, and inside so they know what to expect.
Finished jobs, products or results. This is what customers judge you on.
Faces build trust, especially in trades and personal services. Anonymity costs enquiries.
We resize and convert everything, so large phone photos do not slow your site down.
Descriptions for accessibility and search, written for every image.
Good light, clean background, hold still, take more than you think you need.
The exception is background textures and abstract imagery, where stock is fine because nobody is being asked to believe it is yours.
For a one-page site, eight to twelve. For a starter site, fifteen to twenty-five. More than that and you are into gallery territory, which suits some trades and not others.
If your business is visual — a restaurant, salon, boutique or venue — it is usually worth $300 to $800. For most trades, good phone photos of real work are genuinely sufficient.
We will send you a shot list for your trade and you can work through it in an afternoon. That is faster than waiting for a photographer and it gets the site live.
Not once we process them. Send the originals at full size — we resize and convert everything, which is exactly what most DIY sites get wrong.
It is a template we adapt to your business — your colours, photos, services and words. It is not a custom design from scratch, which is what makes $349 possible. If you want fully custom, that starts around $2,500 and we will tell you honestly which one you need.
Your logo if you have one, some photos of your work or your shop, your services and prices, and your opening hours. If you do not have photos, we will tell you what to take with a phone — it is usually enough.
Yes. The domain is registered in your name, the content is yours, and you can move it elsewhere at any time. We do not hold your site hostage on a care plan.
You keep the site and the domain. You would need to arrange your own hosting, which is usually $5 to $15 a month, and we will help you move it across at no charge.
Indicative ranges in USD. Every engagement is quoted to a written scope before work starts, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
$349 – $549
About 1 week
Best for: Shops that mainly need to be found and called
$749 – $1,290
1–2 weeks
Best for: Most local businesses
$49 – $99 / month
Rolling monthly
Best for: Keeping it working without thinking about it
How we think about this work, in more depth.
Photos
A 30-minute call, then a written proposal with scope, price and timeline within two to three working days. No retainer required to get a real number, and no obligation if the answer is that we are not the right fit.