Website Foundation / First site or simple replacement

Small business website design that starts with the work.

A new website does not need dozens of pages to be useful. It needs accurate information, clear customer actions, thoughtful mobile behavior, and an owner who can keep control of it after launch.

Foundation $249 one-time · no required Webmanship maintenance subscription

Tell us about your business

What the website must do

Four things to settle before choosing a design.

The value of a first website is not the number of effects it contains. These are the practical decisions we use to shape a straightforward project.

Show what you actually offer

Put services, service areas, and the useful differences between them where customers can recognize them without guessing from a brand slogan.

Make contact possible

Give visitors a real next step: a phone link, enquiry path, or other agreed customer action that the business can actually receive and maintain.

Work on a phone

Compose the layout for mobile use, with readable information, navigable links, and forms suited to smaller screens.

Stay under your control

Plan who owns the domain, hosting account, analytics, source and ongoing bills before the finished site is handed over.

The Foundation offer

What does $249 include?

Website Foundation covers up to five standard public-facing pages, or an agreed equivalent one-page site. We shape the page order and content around the business, rather than forcing every customer into the same finished design.

Included are business-specific content structure and visual adaptation, mobile-first implementation, basic search and local-business structure, one consolidated revision round, launch assistance, ownership handoff and 14 days of fixes for problems in the agreed build.

Not included by default: a new brand identity, professional photography, bespoke app functionality, commerce, custom integrations, unlimited revisions, ongoing content updates or recurring third-party fees. These need separate discussion and a written scope.

Compare service scope and third-party costs

From enquiry to launch

How a first website becomes a real business asset.

No fixed launch date is promised before we know what content, approvals, domain access, and other dependencies are available.

Describe the business

Share the services, contact details, service areas, available imagery, and what a new customer should be able to do.

Agree the scope

Webmanship recommends Foundation when a straightforward site is enough. We identify needed materials, outside costs, a written scope, and the project schedule before work starts.

Build and review

The site is adapted to the real business, checked for responsive behavior and important customer paths, and reviewed through one consolidated Foundation revision round.

Launch and hand off

After the agreed checks, the site and operating information are handed over with 14 calendar days of build-related bug fixes.

Explore a working example

What could a straightforward service website look like?

Briarlift Lawn Care is a fictional, interactive Foundation demonstration. It places services first and lets a visitor assemble an editable, unsent enquiry summary. It is not a commissioned client site, testimonial or evidence of measured results.

Explore the Briarlift and Reelweld demos

If your business needs a distinct visual direction or custom features outside Foundation, those are considered under a separately scoped Custom Website starting from $749. If you already have a site, a focused repair may be the smaller job.

Decide whether an existing website needs redesign

Start with the business

Tell us what you do. We'll help determine whether Foundation fits.

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