How long a website takes: four to eight weeks
Most projects go from the first conversation to launch in four to eight weeks. The slow part is never the code; it is decisions and content.
The five steps
Conversation: what you sell, who buys it and what gets in the way. Thirty minutes, no charge.
Proposal: scope, fixed price and dates in writing. If the answer is that you do not need a new site, you hear that too.
Design: the home page first, so you see the direction before the whole site is built.
Build: development, content, languages and testing, with a link where you can watch it come together.
Launch: domain, analytics and search setup, then a check a week later to see what visitors actually did.
What makes it faster
Decisions and content. The process is built to get them early: what each page is for, the photographs you have, the services and prices you want shown.
A project with its words and images ready moves toward the shorter end of the range. One waiting on a new logo or a photoshoot moves toward the longer end.
Why few projects at once
The studio takes one or two projects at a time. You are not waiting behind other clients, and the person who designs your site is the person who builds it.
Questions about timing
- Can it be done in less than four weeks?
- Sometimes, for a small site with its content ready. Say so in your first message and the proposal will show whether the dates work.
- When are the dates fixed?
- In the proposal, together with the scope and the price, before any work starts.
- What happens after launch?
- A check a week later to see what people actually did on the site, and optional support after that, priced per job.
Next step
Tell me about the business. Get a fixed quote.
A few lines on what you sell, who buys it and what is not working yet. I reply myself within one business day, and the price comes in writing before any work starts.