As a start-up business or one that has decided to go down the online route and get a website created, it may be hard to know exactly how much you need to spend. Websites range drastically in price depending on what you want it to do. Prices can start from a few hundred pounds upwards with some sites costing tens of thousands of pounds. You may be able to use a company online that offers you a free website and you just pay for hosting but be aware that if you do opt for a website like this then you will be very restricted in what you can do and may find that it doesn’t perform well on the search engines. If you chose to have a website that has only cost £300 to create then the chances are you will be getting a template website that is not very flexible in terms of layout and functionality.
On average you should expect to spend between a thousand pounds and three thousand pounds for a website for a start up business. If you are going to opt for a cheaper option, make sure that it is going to be capable of doing everything you want it to and that it can be added to / amended in the future should you need to.