Updated August 29, 2026 · Lukáš Březina
What is a done-for-you website?
A done-for-you website is one where someone else builds it, hosts it and keeps it up to date — you describe your business, they hand back a finished site on your own domain. There's no editor to learn and no template to choose. It sits between renting a builder like Wix, where the tool is cheap and the work is yours, and hiring a freelancer, where the work is theirs and the invoice is four figures.
The three ways to get a website
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Who a DIY builder fits
You, if you actually want to build it. Some people enjoy this — dragging a section into place, trying a third font, adding a page on a Sunday afternoon. If that sounds fine rather than dreadful, a builder is genuinely the best value on the market: for $16–$20 a month you get a capable editor, a store if you want one, and complete control over every pixel. The catch is only that the work doesn't do itself, and "I'll finish it next weekend" has killed more small business websites than any technical problem.
Who a freelancer fits
You, if the website has a job to do and you want a human thinking about it. A good freelancer will tell you your photos are too dark, that nobody can find your phone number, and that the thing you want on the homepage should be on page three. For $1,500–$8,000 you get a site built around your business rather than around a template, plus someone who understands it. That's real value. It's also two to six weeks, a handful of meetings, and a fresh invoice every time you want a price changed.
Who done-for-you fits
You, if you need a proper website to exist and you do not want to be involved in making it. The salon that gets found on Instagram and needs somewhere to put prices and hours. The electrician whose customers Google him before calling. The bookkeeper who needs to look like a real business. In every one of those cases the site's job is to be there, be accurate, and look professional — and none of that requires you to learn a layout editor. You describe the business, a finished site comes back, and when something changes you send a sentence.
What you give up
This is the part most pages like this skip, so here it is plainly. Choosing done-for-you costs you things:
- Custom web app features
- Member logins, a booking engine with your own rules, a quoting calculator, an inventory system — anything that is really software rather than a website. That's a developer's job, and it costs what developers cost.
- A real online store
- Product catalogues, variants, carts, shipping rules, tax tables. Shopify exists and is very good at this. We're not competing with it.
- Publishing at volume
- If you plan to post twice a week for two years, you want a CMS you can log into and type in. Describing every blog post to someone else would drive you mad.
- Instant, hands-on control
- You can't nudge a heading two pixels left at eleven at night. You describe the change and it happens shortly after. For most people that's a relief; if you're particular about design, it will frustrate you.
What you keep
- A real .com, registered in your name. Not a subdomain, not something we own on your behalf. You can take it and leave.
- A real website, not a listing page. Your own design, your own copy, your own photos — the same thing a freelancer would hand you, built faster.
- The source code. Ask and we'll send it. Nothing about this arrangement traps you.
- Your evenings. Which was the entire point.
One page, on purpose
Most small businesses need less website than they think: who you are, what you do, what it costs, some proof, your hours and how to reach you. That fits comfortably on one well-organised page, and a visitor can take it in at a glance. Sites with ten sub-pages mostly go unread — people scroll, they don't navigate.
The genuinely complex things can be bolted on cheaply from outside. Bookings can run through a scheduling service you already use, payments through Stripe, enquiries through a form that drops answers into a spreadsheet. Your site links out to those. You don't pay for a big system you'd use a tenth of.
Straight up
Describing a change in a sentence is wonderful for "swap the hero photo" and mildly annoying for "make that gap slightly smaller" — occasionally you'll need to say it twice. We're improving that month over month, and in practice the first draft is usually close enough that most customers ask for very little once they're live. But if fiddling with details is something you enjoy, a builder will suit you better, and we'd rather tell you now.
If you want to see the idea rather than read about it: describe your business and we'll build the site. It takes about ten minutes, looking at it costs nothing, and you decide afterwards. If you'd rather compare prices first, we wrote up what a website actually costs in 2026.
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