Who builds it?
Low-cost platforms usually provide the software. Professional design, migration, copy, structure, and setup may still be your responsibility.
Website Design • Migration • Modernization
A professional website shouldn't start with a mystery price.
Gotham Bush publishes website pricing up front because a smaller advertised number does not always mean a lower real cost. We build the site, establish the SEO foundation, give you a simple way to manage the business information that actually changes, and keep long-term costs straightforward.
Professional Build • Customer CMS • SEO Foundation • Portable by Design
CLEAR FROM THE START
From $1,295
First-year Website Care is included. After that, our current Website Care price is $249 per year. One standard domain registration or renewal is included with active Website Care.
The Whole Website Relationship
The cheapest sticker price can become the expensive path.
Many website platforms make it inexpensive to begin because they are selling access to a builder. The business owner still has to build the website, write or organize the content, configure the pages, understand the SEO tools, maintain the site, and decide what to do when the business outgrows the original setup.
Other services start with an attractive design fee and then rely on recurring hosting, marketing, SEO, add-ons, apps, premium features, or future design work. None of those models are automatically bad—but the initial number alone can make very different products look comparable when they are not.
Gotham Bush takes a different approach: price the professional project clearly, include the pieces a typical small business actually needs to launch properly, keep recurring care modest, and preserve the customer's ability to move the website elsewhere if another solution becomes better later.
Before You Compare Prices
Ask what the number actually buys.
A DIY builder and a professionally designed website are different purchases. The software may be inexpensive, but someone still has to plan, build, maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and keep the site current. For many owners, the bigger cost is time pulled away from running the business. Gotham Bush handles that technical burden so the website becomes a business tool instead of another job on your list.
What renews?
Hosting, builder plans, domains, email, apps, ecommerce features, scheduling, and marketing tools can all renew on different schedules.
What does “SEO” mean?
Having SEO controls is not the same as a professional SEO setup, and an initial setup is not the same as an ongoing SEO campaign.
Can you leave?
Your domain and business content should remain useful if you change providers. Some builders require substantial rebuilding when you move.
Understand
Start with the business, not the website builder.
We review what you have, what it costs, what is working, what is getting in the way, and what the website actually needs to accomplish.
Current-Site Review
Review the existing website, platform, domain, content, forms, search visibility, analytics, and recurring costs.
Business Goals
Identify the customers, services, locations, actions, and information the new website needs to support.
Ownership & Exit Plan
Identify what belongs to the customer, what must be migrated, and how to avoid replacing one unnecessary lock-in with another.
Design & Build
Create the site around what customers need to do.
We handle the professional build while keeping day-to-day business updates simple for the customer.
Responsive Design
Purpose-built page structure, mobile behavior, calls to action, forms, visual presentation, and conversion paths.
Practical CMS
Edit approved business information such as hours, services, staff, pricing, photos, FAQs, and announcements without touching code.
Content & Search Structure
Organize headings, page topics, service information, geographic relevance, metadata, and internal links around people and search engines.
Launch & Protect
Move carefully. Keep the value you've already built.
A redesign is not an excuse to casually throw away URLs, search history, analytics, content, or customer access.
Migration & Redirects
Move approved content and preserve important URLs and redirects where practical so a redesign does not unnecessarily reset search visibility.
SEO Foundation
Initial technical and local-search setup, page metadata, crawlability, indexing support, structured content, and search-oriented page organization.
Testing & Launch
Review responsive behavior, forms, links, major pages, analytics, and deployment before the production switch.
Own & Grow
Keep the website useful without renting complexity forever.
After launch, customers can handle ordinary business updates through the Gotham Bush website CMS while larger changes remain available as clearly scoped professional work.
Simple UpdatesChange the business information that actually changes without opening GitHub or a page-builder maze.
Website CareHosting/deployment management, technical upkeep, backups/recovery, compatibility, and routine platform care.
Optional Growth WorkAdd pages, campaigns, integrations, advanced SEO, ecommerce, or new functionality when the business needs it.
Portable by DesignIf you decide to leave, your domain, business content, approved assets, and practical migration path do not become hostages.
Straightforward Website Pricing
Choose the job you're actually trying to accomplish.
These packages are designed for common small-business website projects. If your project genuinely falls outside the package, we tell you before paid work begins.
Launch
New Business Website
$1,295
For a business that needs a professional web presence without migrating a complicated existing site.
- Up to 5 core pages
- Professional responsive design
- Lead/contact form
- Initial technical SEO foundation
- Analytics setup
- Gotham Bush customer CMS
- First year Website Care included
- One standard domain included with active Website Care
MOST POPULAR
Modernize
Redesign & Rebuild
$1,995
For an existing business site that needs a stronger design, cleaner structure, better performance, and a modern foundation.
- Up to 7 core pages
- Existing-site content migration
- Professional redesign
- Performance optimization
- Initial technical + local SEO foundation
- Redirect/migration planning
- Expanded Gotham Bush CMS controls
- First year Website Care included
- One standard domain included with active Website Care
Platform Escape
Migration + Provider Exit
$2,495
For businesses that want to leave a restrictive or expensive builder/hosting setup without simply recreating the same problem somewhere else.
- Up to 10 core pages
- Platform/provider migration review
- Professional redesign
- Content and asset migration
- SEO/URL preservation planning
- Domain/DNS migration assistance
- Customer-control/portability setup
- First year Website Care included
- One standard domain included with active Website Care
After Year One
Website Care — $249/year
Website Care is not an unlimited design retainer. It covers the ongoing technical care layer: CMS availability, hosting/deployment management, routine platform maintenance, backups/recovery, compatibility/security upkeep, keeping the existing website operational, and one standard domain registration or renewal.
$20.75/mo equivalent
Billed annually after the included first year.
Domain policy: your domain remains customer-controlled, and one standard domain registration or renewal is included while Website Care is active. Premium domains, unusually expensive TLDs, aftermarket purchases, brokerage, and specialty domain costs are quoted separately before purchase. Third-party services that you choose—such as paid booking, ecommerce, premium email, or specialized integrations—are disclosed separately when they are genuinely required.
5-Year Website Reality Check
Compare the whole relationship—not just the first number.
DIY platforms can be genuinely cheaper if you are comfortable building and managing the site yourself. The comparison below shows why that is different from purchasing a professionally built website.
Take the comparison with you.
Download a spreadsheet for Excel or Google Sheets, use CSV for universal import, or print a clean decision-maker copy.
| Option | Professional build? | Hosting/platform | Domain treatment | SEO level | Future rework | Portability | Approx. 5-year base |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger Premium BuilderDIY builder | No — DIY | Included | Year 1 free; domain renewals extra | Tools | Owner or hired help | Partial / builder-dependent | ~$275 + domain renewals |
| GoDaddy Website Builder BasicDIY builder | No — DIY | Included | Free custom domain with annual plan; later renewals extra | Tools / support | Owner or paid expert | Partial / builder-dependent | ~$599 + domain renewals* |
| Wix LightDIY builder | No — DIY | Included | Year 1 free; later renewals vary by domain/TLD | Tools | Owner or hired designer | Partial / platform-dependent | ~$1,020 + domain renewals* |
| Squarespace BasicDIY builder | No — DIY | Included | Year 1 free on annual plan; later renewals vary by TLD | Tools | Owner or hired designer | Partial / content export | ~$960 + domain renewals* |
| Webflow PremiumProfessional/DIY design platform | No — unless you hire someone | Included in Site plan | Purchased separately | Advanced controls | Owner/developer | Better static-code export; CMS features do not fully export | ~$1,500 + domain |
| WordPress.com BusinessDIY / developer-friendly | No — unless you hire someone | Included | Year 1 free; later renewals vary by domain/TLD | Tools / plugins | Owner/developer | Relatively high | ~$1,500 + domain renewals* |
| Shopify BasicEcommerce platform | No — unless you hire someone | Included | Separate | Platform SEO | Owner/developer + apps | Partial / commerce platform-dependent | ~$1,740 + domain/fees |
| Crawford DesignsLocal professional website service | Yes | $497 build + $37/mo hosting | Not clearly stated on public pricing page | Initial professional setup | Additional pages/ecommerce extra | Public terms not clear enough for us to score | ~$2,717 + domain if separate |
| Gotham Bush LaunchProfessional build | Yes | First year included; then Website Care | Customer-controlled; 1 standard domain included with active Website Care | Professional initial foundation | CMS updates by customer; major work à la carte | Designed for portability | $2,291 |
| Gotham Bush ModernizeProfessional redesign/migration | Yes | First year included; then Website Care | Customer-controlled; 1 standard domain included with active Website Care | Professional initial + local foundation | CMS updates by customer; major work à la carte | Designed for portability | $2,991 |
| Gotham Bush Platform EscapeProfessional migration + redesign | Yes | First year included; then Website Care | Customer-controlled; 1 standard domain included with active Website Care | Professional initial + migration preservation | CMS updates by customer; major work à la carte | Designed for portability | $3,491 |
Prices checked August 17, 2026. Competitor pricing, promotions, renewals, taxes, and plan features can change. Five-year estimates use currently advertised annual/promotion pricing where a defensible calculation is possible. Variable competitor domain renewals are shown separately rather than guessed. Gotham Bush totals include one standard domain while Website Care is active.
* Assumes the currently advertised plan rate continues for the calculation period. DIY totals do not include the value of the owner's labor or the cost of hiring a designer, developer, copywriter, SEO professional, or migration specialist.
“SEO tools” means the platform provides controls, audits, or settings. It does not mean a professional has performed the SEO work. Gotham Bush package SEO refers to an initial professional technical/local foundation, not an ongoing monthly SEO campaign.
Current pricing sources:
Hostinger
GoDaddy
Wix
Squarespace
Webflow
WordPress.com
Shopify
Crawford Designs
No Artificial Lock-In
Your website should be a business asset—not a hostage.
Gotham Bush websites are intentionally designed for practical portability. You retain control of your domain, business content, and approved assets. If your needs change, we provide a reasonable export/handoff path rather than deliberately making the website impossible to move.
If you want Gotham Bush to perform a complete migration to another provider—configure the new environment, replace integrations, move DNS, test everything, and launch it—that is professional labor and can be quoted separately. The ability to leave is not something we charge you to unlock.
A practical handoff can include:
- Website source/build materials appropriate to the project
- Customer-owned content and approved assets
- SEO metadata and redirect information where applicable
- Domain/DNS information and customer-controlled access
- Structured content export where supported
- Documentation of Gotham Bush-specific integrations that need replacement
Clear Scope. Clear Payments.
You review the work before launch—not before anyone commits.
We do not build custom websites or extensive speculative mockups for free. A real project begins after scope, agreement, and initial payment are established.
Choose & Configure
Select a package, answer the project questions, and see the working estimate before submitting.
Scope & Agreement
We confirm what is included, identify unusual requirements, and put the project scope and payment terms in writing.
50% to Begin
Custom design/build work starts after the agreement and project deposit. Paid discovery can be used when substantial concept work is needed first.
Private Review
You review the working site privately, provide included revision feedback, and see the project before production launch.
Milestone Payment
For the standard structure, 25% is due at the agreed build milestone.
Final 25% & Launch
The remaining balance is completed before production launch/final handoff, then we put the finished website to work.
When the Project Needs More
Extras should be visible—not surprise invoices.
These are starting prices for common additions. If scope materially changes the work, we confirm the price before adding it.
Additional standard page$150
Custom page / unique layout$250+
Additional standard form$100
Advanced form / workflow$250+
Copywriting / substantial rewrite$125/page
Additional local SEO/location page$175
Booking/service integration$250+
Ecommerce setup$750+
Major post-launch design change$250+
Logo / light brand refresh$350+
Build Your Website Estimate
See the number before you hand us your information.
Configure the project first. The estimate updates on the page. When it looks right, send the project details to Gotham Bush. We confirm final scope before any paid work begins.
Still Comparing?
Take your time. The price isn't hidden behind a phone call.
Review the packages, compare the five-year picture, and configure the project when you're ready. If Gotham Bush isn't the right fit, we'd rather you know that before either side wastes time.