At Orion Studios, websites start at $1,000. The final quote depends on the pages, content, and functions your business needs. Ongoing care is a separate decision. Ask for its scope and recurring cost as part of your proposal.
For a Denver business comparing developers, the useful question is what the full project will cost to build and keep running. A low initial quote can leave out work you need. A larger quote can include services you would otherwise buy separately. Compare the scope before comparing the price.
What changes the build price?
A website that explains your services and accepts inquiries has different requirements from a site that takes payments or coordinates bookings. Start with the action you want a customer to take, then work backward to the pages and functions that support it.
These details help a developer prepare an accurate quote:
- How many distinct pages need design and content. Several versions of the same page still need useful, accurate information.
- Whether you have finished copy and photography, or need help preparing them.
- Whether your team needs to edit pages and publish articles through a content management system.
- Whether you need calendar bookings, checkout, customer accounts, or another integration.
- Whether this is a new website or a migration with existing URLs, forms, and search traffic to preserve.
- Which accessibility, performance, and browser checks the project includes.
Orion's website scope composer shows an estimate as you select your needs. The discovery process turns that estimate into a fixed quote for an agreed scope. A starting price is not a quote for every website.
Compare your website quotes
Ask each provider the same questions, then compare the answers side by side. An unanswered question belongs in the follow-up conversation before you compare the totals.
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- Which pages and customer tasks are included?
- Who writes the copy and supplies licensed images?
- Who owns the domain, content, design and code? What license restrictions apply?
- What access and export options will I have if I change providers?
- Which forms, bookings, payments or other integrations are included?
- If this replaces a site, who maps old URLs and checks redirects?
- How are mobile layouts, accessibility and key customer tasks checked?
- Which analytics events record a completed inquiry or booking?
- What must I provide before work starts, and what can change the schedule?
- How many revision rounds are included, and how are scope changes priced?
- What are the separate hosting, software, support and maintenance charges?
- Who fixes problems after launch, on what terms, and what is excluded?
- Are blogging and chatbot services optional, and what do they actually do?
A lower price may cover less work. A higher price needs an explanation too. Ask for missing answers and exclusions in writing.
Budget for the first year
Use this calculation when you compare proposals:
Build quote + ongoing care or hosting + domain renewal + separately priced tools and services.
Check what is already included before adding another hosting or software allowance. Orion's published care plans include managed hosting.
Ask for the monthly care or hosting quote, then multiply it by the number of months you want to budget for. Add domain renewal and any separately charged tools, services, taxes, or work outside the agreed scope. Confirm billing terms and cancellation conditions in the proposal.
You can review the care options and discuss which support your site needs.
Which ongoing services do you need?
Website care covers the work of keeping the site running and current. Orion's Essential Care includes managed hosting, uptime monitoring, and a monthly site-health summary. No content edits are included. Growth adds up to one hour of requested edits each month, daily database backups with status checks, software update checks, and a monthly speed, traffic, and inquiry snapshot where tracked. Active Care includes everything in Growth with three hours of requested edits each month, weekly checks of key pages, links, images, and contact-page availability, and a quarterly 20-minute website strategy call to discuss one specific improvement.
Care and content marketing solve different problems. An automated blog service can help publish answers to buying questions, but it still needs accurate business information and useful topics. Publishing more articles does not guarantee search traffic. Ask about quality checks, corrections, scheduling, and the service's separate price.
A website chatbot can help visitors find information when its answers match your actual services and policies. Ask what it can answer, what happens when it cannot help, and how a visitor reaches a person. Confirm its setup and recurring charges before adding it to the budget.
Neither automated blogging nor a chatbot should be assumed to come with a website build or care plan. Agree on each service's scope and availability in your proposal.
What should a redesign preserve?
If your current site already brings in customers, write down what works before replacing it. Keep a record of important URLs, service pages, forms, and booking links. Ask how existing pages will redirect when addresses change and how you will check inquiries after launch.
Our Currin Pest Control rebuild is a North Texas example. The case study shows how we reorganized service information and inquiry paths, with a CMS for ongoing updates. It gives you a concrete project to inspect when comparing the work you need.
Questions to ask before you accept a quote
- Which pages, integrations, and content work are included?
- Who owns and controls the domain, hosting account, source code, and design files?
- What does the launch check cover, including forms and bookings?
- Which ongoing charges are optional, and what happens if you cancel them?
- How are new requests priced after the scope is agreed?
- How will you distinguish website visits from actual inquiries and sales?
A clear proposal should answer these before work begins.
Planning a website for a Denver-area business? Explore Orion Studios' Denver website development service for project scope, a website rebuild example, and options for support after launch.
Bring your current website, the services you want to sell, and the problems you need to fix. Contact Orion Studios to discuss a website for your Denver-area business and get a scoped quote.