Question
How much does a website cost in Wales?
A website in Wales is priced by what has to be made: the number of pages, the words on them, whether a Welsh version is translated by the word, whether it needs a shop or a booking engine, and who takes the photographs. A five-page site for a café and an eighteen-page bilingual site for a charity are different jobs, and any quote that gives one price without asking those questions is guessing.
Answered by Daniel Stoychev, Webso Digital · 4 September 2026
What you are paying for
Four things, in roughly this order of cost. The pages: each service, place or product that gets its own page is written, laid out and tested, and a site with sixteen pages is more work than one with five. The words: someone has to write them from what you know, and a site written after a call with you costs more than one filled from a template, because it is the only kind that brings enquiries. The Welsh: translation is bought by the word, so the price of the Welsh version follows the length of the English one, and it drops if a Welsh speaker in your business writes it and a translator proofreads. And the features: a shop with delivery rules, a booking engine, a members' area, each is a piece of work with its own price.
Photography is the fifth and it is usually yours to do. A photo brief and your phone produce better pictures of your shop than any stock library, and a designer who fills the gaps with stock is charging you for the wrong thing.
What the quote usually leaves out
The running costs. A platform such as Shopify or a page-builder subscription charges every month for as long as the site exists; hosting and care from a studio is a yearly figure; a booking engine takes a fee per booking; the domain is a few pounds a year in your name. Ask every quote for the second-year cost as well as the first, and ask who owns the site if you stop paying. The answer to the last one should be you.
Then the Welsh updates. A bilingual site changed in English only drifts back to being an English site, so the cost of a bilingual site includes translating every later change, which is a reason to price hosting and care with the Welsh included.
How to compare two quotes
Write down the number of pages, whether the words are written for you or by you, whether the Welsh is by a person or a machine, what the site costs in year two, and who owns it. Two quotes with the same headline figure are rarely the same job once those five are beside them. Our own numbers are on the pricing page, with what each package contains line by line, and they are the same for every business in Wales.
Related questions
- Is a cheaper site from a template a false economy?
- For a business that wants enquiries, usually. A template site with stock photos looks like every other template site, loads slowly, and rarely has a page per service, which is the page that ranks. It is a fine placeholder for a business that gets all its work by phone.
- Does a Welsh version double the price?
- No. The build of the Welsh pages is a fraction of the English build because the design and the structure already exist; the cost is the translation, which is by the word.