Guides for people buying, fixing or moving a website

Written because the same three conversations kept happening, and because the honest version of each one is hard to find. Every figure here is a real market price I can point at, and each guide says where the risk sits rather than where the sale is.

Last reviewed 5 September 2026

What a small business website really costs The whole range, from $20 templates to $15,000 agencies, what each band actually gets you, and the three costs nobody quotes until after you have signed. Your web developer vanished. What to do now How to find out what you still control, get your domain and hosting back, and work out whether the site is worth saving — most of it before you pay anyone. Moving from Etsy to Shopify: what it costs What the move is really worth against Etsy's fees, what does not transfer, and the URL mistake that keeps the catalogue while losing the traffic.

A note on what these are for

None of them will teach you to build a website yourself. That is a deliberate choice, not a withheld secret: if you want to learn, the free material out there is genuinely excellent and I would only be repeating it less well.

What is missing online is the buyer's side — what things cost, what goes wrong, what you should be told before you pay and usually are not. That is what these cover. If you read one and conclude you do not need to hire anybody, the guide did its job.

Would you rather see the service?

If you already know what you need, the services are listed on the homepage and each has its own page: website design, store setup, brand identity and care plans. Every project is quoted in writing after a free audit call — which is also where to start if you have a site already and are not sure what is wrong with it.