How to get a professional website built for under £500

If you’re low on funds and high on ambition, Sitemaker may be just the thing you’re looking for. For startups, solopreneurs, and anyone with the drive and ambition to get up and running with a web presence but lacking a big budget, Sitemaker provides a professionally built, fixed price, affordable website from just £450.

All you need to do is jump over to Sitemaker and choose from the wide range of available websites, pay and complete a simple form providing all your content, and we do the heavy lifting and produce a beautiful looking, professional website.

We even include setting up a GoDaddy hosting account and free domain (billed directly by GoDaddy), so you have everything you need right out of the box.

Save time and money

The truth is that if you’re thinking of a DIY job because you can’t afford a premium website, you’re losing money, not saving it. The amount of time it takes to skill up and start building a self-hosted WordPress website is quite considerable and you won’t be any better off with a “free” site on Wix, Weebly, or WordPress.com. They almost always carry SEO penalties and suffer with Google indexing strangulation.

Time

We worked out that for an experienced developer, a simple, self-hosted, WordPress business website usually takes between 20 and 40 hours to produce. The developer will be familiar with all the necessary tools and know which plugins to use.

If you’re not experienced, suddenly it’s not so attractive because you can guarantee it’ll take at least two to three times as long. That’s time you’ll be spending away from running your business and from your family.

Can you really afford to be away from your business for up to 120 hours with no guarantee of success?

Money

Here’s the thing: DIY websites rarely save money for small businesses. The so-called “free” sites that all come with drag and drop interfaces almost always carry some kind of search engine indexing penalty, so even if you do build it yourself, there’s no guarantee that you’ll actually be found by Google or Bing. Plus there’s all that time you’ll be spending skilling up on the software and the hosting platform.

Do you really want to be doing that with your time or would you rather be running your business instead?

Let’s take an example. A mum of two, who’s a massage therapist, decides she’s going to save money by building her own self-hosted WordPress website. She’s able to squeeze in 4 (or perhaps 5 at a push) massage therapy appointments in her working day in between school drop off and pick up times. She charges £25 per hour for her time.

She’s going to have to give up around £3,000 worth of business to build her own website. That’s 30 days’ revenue, assuming all the appointments are taken. Suddenly that “free” option isn’t really free anymore.

Do you still think a “free” DIY website will save you money?

You

There’s no doubt about it. Everything has a learning curve — even swimming and riding a bike. Learning everything it takes to build a website yourself eats into your business time. If you’re a bit of a technophobe, it’s going to take that bit longer, too.

Unless you’re a designer, developer, or can spare the time, save yourself the bother and let us get your business website up and running quickly and easily.

Sitemaker: websites professionally built on a budget.