The awkward questions, answered first.

There is no price list. Tell me the budget you're working with and I'll tell you what's honestly possible inside it — and if it isn't enough, I'll say that instead of quoting anyway and cutting corners later.

Most sites go live in three days. A week at the outside, and scope moves that — nothing else does. After it's live, small fixes are part of the job rather than a new invoice; anything that's genuinely new scope, I'll say so and price it before touching it.

What the business does, who it sells to, and whatever text and photos already exist. If they don't exist, I write the first draft and you correct it. Nobody has ever sent me a finished brief.

Me. You brief one person and that person builds it. No account manager, no team you never meet, no handoff where the thing you agreed quietly becomes something else. Scope goes in writing before anything is built — what's included, and what isn't.

You do. Code, domain and hosting accounts in your name — not mine, not rented back to you. Leaving costs nothing, which is the only version of this worth agreeing to.

Use one, if the site is a placeholder. Past that: a template puts you in a queue with everyone else who bought it, you can't fix what you don't own, and the part that actually wins the enquiry isn't the layout — it's the order the questions get answered. No builder decides that for you.