How much does a website cost in Chandler's Ford?
Web design prices in Hampshire vary a lot. Here's an honest look at what you're actually paying for at each price point.
Three common routes, very different prices
DIY Builder
Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy
Ongoing subscription
- Low upfront cost
- You can edit it yourself
- A lot of your time to build it well
- Templates a lot of others share
- Stop paying and the site disappears
Full-Service Agency
Teams in Southampton or Winchester
Plus VAT and management fees
- Designers, developers and strategists in-house
- Suited to bigger, ongoing brand projects
- Office and team overheads sit in the price
- Usually too much for a small local business
Fixels
Based in Chandler's Ford
Fixed project fee
- Pre-built static sites that load quickly
- Fixed price, no monthly contracts
- You own the code and the domain
- Local, so we can meet for a coffee
Larger custom builds quoted per project.
Why the gap is so wide
Most of the price gap comes down to overheads. Larger agencies run physical studios, account managers, project managers, and separate design and development teams. Useful on a £50k brand project. Hard to justify on a five-page site for a local plumber.
We work as a small team in Chandler's Ford, with very little overhead. The saving doesn't come from cutting corners on the build, it comes from not paying for things you don't need.
What you're paying for under the bonnet
A lot of cheaper builders ship a WordPress site on a generic template. It works, but it's usually slow on a phone and easy to break with a bad plugin update.
We use a modern build pipeline that pre-renders your pages as static HTML and serves them from a Content Delivery Network (CDN). The page arrives on a customer's phone in well under a second on a normal connection.
Page speed is one of Google's ranking signals, particularly on mobile. It won't outrank an established competitor on its own, but a slow site will actively hold you back.
The small running costs to know about
The build is a one-off fee. There are two small external costs that come with running any website, regardless of who builds it:
Domain name
Your web address (e.g. .co.uk). Typically £8–£15 per year direct from a registrar.
Hosting
Where the site actually lives. We offer managed hosting from £25 a month, covering uptime, backups, and updates.
We register the domain in your own name with no markup, so you have full control of it from day one. You also keep ownership of the code we build for you outright.
Want a straightforward quote?
Tell us about your business and we'll come back with a fixed price and a clear plan. Fixed build cost, no lock-in, no surprise invoices.