Prices
Real numbers, printed on the page, where you can see them
No "contact us for a quote". You should know roughly what this costs before you pick up the phone, and the price on the card is the price on the invoice.
One page
Restaurants, trades, anyone whose website is really a business card that has to load fast.
450 €
- One long page built around a single action
- Click to call and email
- Google Maps and business profile set up
- Two rounds of changes
- About three weeks
Business site
Clinics, law offices, agencies, small hotels. Several services, two languages, actual content.
1.100 €
- Up to six pages, Croatian and English
- Booking or enquiry form that reaches your phone
- Search setup, schema, sitemap, the lot
- One small screen for prices and hours, if you want it
- Four to six weeks
Something harder
Shops, live data, logins, payments, anything with a database sitting behind it.
from 2.400 €
- Scoped properly before a number is agreed
- Payments, accounts, stock, whatever it needs
- Built so another developer can take it over
- Timeline depends, and I will be honest about it
First three clients: half up front, the rest only when you are happy to launch.
Afterwards, 35 € a month covers hosting, the domain, backups and small text changes. It is optional, you cancel it with one message, there is no minimum term, and I will not hold your domain hostage on the way out.
Questions worth asking
Including the awkward ones
Yes, and sometimes you should. If your budget is under 400 € and you are willing to spend a weekend on it, a Squarespace template beats a cheap custom site. Where it falls down is speed, because you load their entire platform to show your opening hours, and ownership, because leaving means rebuilding. Hire me when the site brings in work and a slow one costs more than I do.
Fair, and I would ask the same. What I can offer: the price is lower than it will be in a year, you get far more of my attention than a busy studio would give you, and the whole build goes in writing before you pay anything. The first three clients pay half up front and the rest only if they want to launch. If you do not, you lose the deposit and nothing more.
You know the business, I know what a page needs. Usual arrangement: you talk, I record it, I write a draft, you fix the bits I got wrong. Nobody in the history of this trade has successfully emailed their developer "the text" as a finished document. It always comes out of a conversation.
No. I will use what you have, and if it is bad I will say so and point you at someone who does it properly. A web developer who also does your logo is usually doing one of the two badly.
Send me a message. On the care plan, small things are done the same day; without it, they are billed by the hour. If I have vanished or you have had enough of me, the code is plain HTML in a repository you own and any competent developer can pick it up in an afternoon. That is deliberate. Lock-in is a business model I would rather not have.