What a small website costs per year, itemised
Domain, subscription, email, one paid template and the odd app. Three real budgets for a personal page, a freelance site and a small company site.
Topic
Comparisons
21 articles.
Website builders for wedding planners and event professionals
Enquiries arrive in a short season and every one is a long conversation. What the site must qualify before it lands in your inbox.
Shopify vs Squarespace when you have twelve products and no warehouse
Squarespace commerce is fine until it is not. The product count, shipping rules and fee structure that decide when Shopify becomes cheaper.
Website builders for dental and medical practices
Patients search locally and book, in that order. Appointment requests, opening hours, accessibility and the platforms that handle all three.
Website builders for solicitors and small law firms
Regulator rules govern what the page may say. Required disclosures, complaints information, and platforms that will not fight the constraints.
Website builders for personal trainers and coaches
Sessions are sold by time slot, so the calendar is the product. Which builders handle booking and payment without three subscriptions.
Blogging inside a website builder, compared honestly
Every builder has a blog. The differences appear at post fifty: drafts, scheduling, categories, authorship and getting the archive back out.
Website builders for architects and practices
Project archives, drawings at full resolution and a client list that grows. Which builders handle a portfolio that has to be structured, not just pretty.
Website builders for musicians and bands
Tour dates that expire, streaming embeds, mailing lists and merch. The four moving parts that decide which platform survives a release cycle.
Website builders for restaurants and cafés
The menu changes weekly and someone in the kitchen has to change it. Which platforms make that possible without a support call.
The line items nobody puts on the pricing page
Domain renewal, transaction fees, email, storage overage, premium templates and the app subscriptions that arrive later. A full cost inventory.
Website builders for tradespeople and small contractors
Service area, phone number, photos of finished work. A site read on a phone in a driveway, and the platforms that respect that.
Website builders for photographers, judged on image handling
Galleries, full-bleed images, colour profiles and page weight. Which builders serve large photographs properly and which flatten them.
Webflow pricing: two subscriptions, and why you need both
Workspace plans and site plans are separate bills. How they stack for a freelancer with clients, and where the CMS item limits start hurting.
Webflow vs Framer: depth against speed
Both aim at designers. One gives you the full box model and a real CMS, the other gives you a site by Friday. Which trade suits which project.
Wix pricing: the plan table, the app bills, and the gap between them
Wix's subscription is only part of the cost. Which apps most sites end up paying for, and what the real monthly figure looks like.
Squarespace pricing: which tier you will actually end up on
The plan people buy and the plan they need are rarely the same. What each Squarespace tier withholds and what the third year costs.
Squarespace vs Wix: constraint against freedom
The same five-page site built twice. Where Wix's flexibility saved time, where Squarespace's constraints saved the layout, and the deciding question.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are not the same product
One is a hosted service with plan limits, the other is software you maintain. The differences that decide which, and what each costs in reality.
The website builders worth paying for in 2026
Six builders we rebuilt the same site on, what each one is genuinely good at, and the point where each one stops being the right answer.
What website builders actually cost once you stop reading the pricing page
Plan tiers, the features held back for the tier above, renewal jumps and domain markups. The real first-year and third-year cost of six builders.