12 guides
Answers before the sales call
What things cost, what the cheap version actually is, and when the honest answer is that you do not need us.
Cost
What things actually cost
What a website actually costs on Long Island
Written by an agency that publishes its prices, about an industry that mostly does not.
What you are actually paying for every month
Hosting is cheap. Almost nothing on a website invoice is hosting.
What SEO costs, and what a lot of it buys
The range is real. So is the reason a great deal of that money produces a monthly PDF.
Comparisons
How the options really differ
Build it yourself, or hire somebody?
The builders are good now. The real question is whether you want the job they hand you.
Freelancer or agency?
Skill is not the variable that decides this. Continuity is.
What a $500 website actually gets you
Not a scam. A template fill, and a failure mode much quieter than a scam.
Template or custom, and where the line really is
Including the part where we admit our own builds start from a design system.
Deciding
Working out what you need
How to tell if your website is actually the problem
Most people who ask us for a redesign do not have a website problem. This page helps you find out which one you have.
How long a website really takes
Days to build, weeks to finish. This page is about the gap between those two numbers and who is standing in it.
What to ask a web designer before you hire one
Four questions decide almost everything, and all four are about what happens after the site is finished. Our answers are below, including where ours is not the best one available.
Do you need a website at all?
Written by a company that sells websites, about the businesses that should not buy one this year.
Who actually owns your website
It is four separate things, and they can belong to four different people. Here is how to check each one this afternoon.