How Much Does a Website Cost in Hull?
What does a Hull website cost in 2026?
As of 2026, a small-business website with Shaun Allen Web Design, Kingswood, Hull costs £500 for Starter (1 - 5 pages), £1,000 for Essential (6 - 10 pages), and from £1,500 for Complete (11+ pages). Hosting and domain are £250 a year if I host. Optional business email is £60 per mailbox per year. Those figures go on a written quote. They are not a marketplace average and they are not an agency retainers-and-workshops number.
Search the same question and you will see a couple of hundred pounds next to a couple of thousand next to a five-figure discovery workshop. None of those is automatically wrong. Most of them answer a different job than the one in front of you. A five-page trade site is one job. A clinic with staff pages and service detail is another. Hospitality that needs menus, photos and a booking path is another again. If a quote arrives before anyone has asked about page count, content readiness, or whether you already own a domain, it is a guess dressed as a price.
I have traded under this name since August 2014. The bands above are how I still price the work: by pages you need, not by how nervous you sound on the phone.
What those numbers actually buy
“From £500” makes some people picture a half-finished sketch. That is not what leaves my desk.
A typical build means a custom layout matched to your brand, pages that work on phone and desktop, an enquiry form that sends somewhere you check, and SEO foundations: unique titles, meta descriptions, sensible headings, a sitemap. Code written with speed in mind. Security from the start - HTTPS-ready setup, spam-resistant forms, HSTS, and a content security policy where it fits. Accessibility and clear structure are part of how I build, not a bolt-on. When the project is paid and handed over, you own the files. No rented theme account holding the site hostage.
Starter at £500 covers 1 - 5 pages. Home, about, services, contact - sometimes a gallery. That is the usual fit for a trade who needs a clear shop window and a form that works on a thumb. Essential at £1,000 is 6 - 10 pages: more service detail, more photos to place, often a couple of area pages when the business covers more than one town. Complete starts from £1,500 for 11 or more pages and is scoped before anything starts. Most Hull businesses I speak to land on Essential.
Hosting sits outside the build because it is ongoing. Year one for a Starter site often sits around £750 before email. Essential around £1,250. Complete from about £1,750. The exact number lives on the written quote once we agree pages, content, and whether we are moving a domain you already own.
Hand-coded PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript are what I use for those builds. You are paying for pages written for your business, not a marketplace skin with your logo dropped in.
What usually moves a quote up or down
Page count is the blunt lever. Home, about, services, contact - small. A full service list plus several town pages - not small. I price by those bands, then I write the inclusions down so nobody is arguing in April.
Content readiness matters more than people admit. Real photos, a logo that still looks sharp on a phone, copy that says what you do: that shortens the job. Waiting on all of it lengthens it. My time is the product, so delay sits in the diary whether we like it or not.
Migrating an old site is slower than starting on a fresh domain. Redirects, cutover, keeping the addresses Google already knows - that is real work. Enquiry forms are standard. Large galleries, custom admin tools, several mailboxes: those get priced before I start, not halfway through as a surprise.
Who does the work changes the number as much as the scope. Agencies bake in overhead. Marketplace sellers often drop a theme, stick a logo on, and go quiet. I design it, code it, put it live, and stay on the email. You pay for that direct line. The figure on the written quote is the figure you pay.
How these prices sit next to other quotes
Treat other people’s ranges as orientation. Markets move. Odd quotes exist at both ends.
Cheap template jobs in 2026 often sit between £100 and £400. Shared theme, stock photos, limited changes. Fine for a hobby page or a holding page while branding settles. A weak bet as the main shop window for a trade, practice or café that needs speed, trust, and someone still answering next year.
Most bespoke SME work I see - sole traders and small studios around Hull - sits in the £500 to £3,000 band. That is my band. Agency projects often run £3,000 to £15,000 and up. More people, more process, sometimes more branding polish. Sensible if you have the budget and the need. Overkill for a lot of businesses who mainly want a clear site that turns visitors into calls.
I have watched people compare three numbers on a phone and pick the middle one because it felt safe. The useful test is not the middle. It is what you get, who owns the files, and who picks up when the contact form stops working on a bank holiday. Chasing the cheapest number is how you buy a rebuild later.
What you pay after go-live
The build is one bill. The site staying up is another.
If I host, hosting and domain are £250 a year. Optional business email is £60 per mailbox per year. A proper mailbox - hello@yourbusiness.co.uk on invoices and quote replies - looks more trustworthy than a free Gmail address. Customers notice.
Budget past the build. Hosting renews. “Free” hosting usually means headaches later. Your time for content counts too. Real photos beat stock. Clear service descriptions beat slogans. Decide what the homepage should ask people to do: call, fill a form, book. Small edits after launch get listed before we start. Aftercare sits on the quote, not as a shrug the week after go-live. No five-year lock. Write it down.
Ranking on day one is not part of the invoice. Search is slow. A tidy site simply gives the crawl something worth reading. A quiet fortnight after go-live while Search Console catches up is normal, not a secret charge.
What is not worth paying for
Jargon. Workshops that end in a slide deck and no website. A page-builder stack you never asked for, then discovering that leaving means rebuilding from scratch. Being passed between three people to change a phone number. If we work together, the same person designs, codes, launches, and answers the email afterwards.
Most people who get in touch are not chasing awards. They want a site that looks professional on a phone, loads without a wait, and makes the next step obvious. If the current site is slow, dated, or not turning visits into calls, sitting on it usually costs more than replacing it. A quiet enquiry week never shows up as a line on last month’s invoice.
A one-page holding site while branding settles can be a cheap template for a short spell. The site customers will judge you by for the next few years is a different decision. Spend enough to do that one properly once. For most trades, practices and hospitality businesses around Hull, a clear bespoke site in the hundreds to low thousands - not a five-figure agency package - is the sensible band.
How to get a cost for your job
A written quote with page count and inclusions beats a verbal “around a grand.” Memory fails when you are juggling jobs.
Send a short brief: sector, page sketch, existing site or blank slate, and must-haves such as galleries or more than one location. Within a day I usually return a fixed-scope quote - inclusions, timetable, price. If bespoke is the wrong fit for where you are, I will say so. An honest no beats a bad match.
Want a figure for your project rather than a range on a blog? Call 07900 141 380 with the rough page list, or send the same note to info@shaunallen.co.uk - the quote form works too - and I will put the 2026 number in writing before any work starts.