You could build it yourself. You would rather build it once.
You know what you want and you could probably put it together yourself. The question is whether it will still be doing its job in a year, and whether you will be able to change it without asking anyone. That is the difference between a cheap site and a small one done properly, and it is mostly decided before anything is built.
A SHORT BRIEF FIRST
One page, before anything is built. What it is for, who it is for, what it has to do. Agreed by both of us. It is also the part that stops you paying for a site that does not do the job.
WHAT YOU GET
Three to five pages, live, and easy to own once it's yours. I'm not tied to any one platform, so we use whatever is simplest for you to update yourself afterwards, without needing me. Twenty years of this, most of it on much bigger sites, at the small end and priced for it.
HOW IT RUNS
The build, styled to your brand, with your content placed. Forms, mobile, search setup. Two rounds of changes. Then your domain connected, and a handover that shows you how to run it.
WHAT IT COSTS
$2,500 plus GST, fixed
Half to start, half when it goes live.
The platform subscription is paid by you, directly to the provider, and stays in your name. Same with anything ongoing. I don't mark those up and I don't sit between you and them.
WHAT I NEED FROM YOU
The words and the images. That's what decides the timeline. If you have them, the build runs about two to three weeks. If you'd rather I handled the writing and images, I can, but it's quoted separately.
IF IT'S BIGGER THAN THIS
Five pages is the small end, not the limit. Larger sites, more complex builds and the more interesting problems are all work I'd rather be doing. Tell me what you need and I'll quote it properly rather than stretch this.
EXAMPLE WORK
agonissustainability.au, built this year for Agonis Group's sustainability arm and handed over with a written guide, so their team runs it now without me. verygoodtechnology.com and matthewsillars.com are mine, which counts for less.
For context, not comparison. quit.org.au, a $1m government project I took over when it was failing and finished. Victoria University's site through a rebrand and a five-year improvement programme, running the 27-person department behind it. Computacenter's rebrand across four countries, the largest project that agency had delivered.
WHAT THIS ISN'T
It isn't a custom design or a platform build. It's a small site done cleanly, in something you can manage yourself.
GET IN TOUCH
Tell me what it is for and I will tell you whether this size fits.