What a website really costs
The price does not depend on the number of pages, but on the work the site has to do for your business. Here is how we break the budget down.
The first question we get every week is always the same: how much does a website cost? The honest answer is that it depends on what the site needs to achieve. A brochure site for a dental practice and an online store with five hundred products are two completely different projects.
What makes up the price
Roughly half the budget goes into strategy and design: understanding your business, structuring the information and shaping how it looks. The rest is split between development, testing across devices and preparing the content.
The three levels we see most often
A simple presentation site with four or five sections is usually enough for a new business. A site with a blog and a content system suits businesses that want to publish regularly. Online stores take more work, because they involve payments, shipping and stock management.
Where you should not cut corners
Speed, the mobile version and clear copy are not luxury add-ons. If a visitor waits five seconds for your page to open, they leave before they ever see your price. Saving here costs more than it looks.
Erisa leads design at Vala Studio and has ten years of experience building visual identities for businesses across Albania and Kosovo.
