A fixed quote, in writing
You know the price before the first layout exists. No day rates, no surprise retainer after launch.
Company websites
Get your website built – by a studio that ships
A custom company website, designed and built in Freiburg for businesses across Germany and Switzerland: fast, bilingual, easy to update, live in four to eight weeks – with a fixed quote before we start.
Live in 4–8 weeks
Layouts in your browser within a week, a preview URL while we build, a launch on the agreed date.
Yours to keep
Code, domain and hosting are in your name. No proprietary CMS, no licence fees, no lock-in.
Getting a website built: how it works
Every project starts with a short call – twenty minutes, no slides – in which you tell us what the site has to do: bring enquiries, explain a service, sell, hire. Within a few days you get a written scope and a fixed price. Once you say yes, you see real layouts with your real copy in your own browser within the first week, not a PDF deck. We refine those on real screens, build in stages on a live preview URL, and launch on the agreed date.
Most company websites go live in four to eight weeks from the kick-off call. What stretches a project is almost never the build – it is missing texts and photos. That is why we ask for them early and, if you like, write the copy with you.
What a professionally built website includes
A professionally built website is not a theme with your logo swapped in. It is structured around what your customers actually search for, written for German and English readers where you need both, and technically sound underneath: proper titles and headings, structured data, a sitemap, fast images, a contact flow that lands in your inbox, analytics and a cookie consent that follows German law.
It is also built to be fast. Our live sites average a Lighthouse score of 98 and load in about a second on a phone, because every page is hand-written HTML and CSS with a lean Python/Django backend only where one is needed. Speed is not a package you add later; it is a consequence of how the site is built.
Having a homepage built: what it costs
Websites with us start from €500. A simple site for a restaurant or a practice costs something different from a bilingual twelve-page company website, a shop something different from a web app – so we don't quote ranges; we quote a fixed price after the first call, in writing, before any work starts.
What moves the price is page count and languages, custom design versus a refined system, integrations such as booking or payment, and how much copywriting and photography you need. The website costs page breaks all of this down, including the running costs after launch.
Page builder, freelancer, agency or studio?
Four honest options, four different trade-offs. A page builder is cheap to start and expensive to live with; a classic agency brings project managers and a rate to match; a freelancer can be excellent and can also disappear; a small studio like ours sits in between – one person who designs and builds, with fixed prices and a written process.
| Option | Price | Time | Ownership | Speed & SEO |
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| Page builder (Wix, Jimdo, IONOS) | €15–50 / month, forever | Days, if you build it yourself | Platform-bound, no export | Limited by the platform |
| Freelancer | €1,500–6,000 | 4–10 weeks | Usually yours | Depends entirely on the person |
| Agency | €8,000–25,000 | 8–16 weeks | Usually yours, sometimes on their CMS | Good, with overhead |
| Webarkitekt (studio) | from €500, fixed | 4–8 weeks | Yours: code, domain, hosting | Lighthouse 95+ by design |
If a page builder is genuinely the better fit for you – a hobby project, a site you will rebuild in a year anyway – we say so on the call.
Getting a website built nearby – or remotely?
If you search for a web developer "near me" you usually want two things: someone you can meet, and someone who understands your local market. We are based in Freiburg im Breisgau and meet clients from Freiburg, Südbaden and Basel in person when it helps – see the Freiburg page and the Basel and Südbaden page.
The build itself, though, is remote by nature: a shared preview URL, short weekly check-ins, comments straight on the layouts. Half of our clients are elsewhere in Germany or Switzerland and never sit in the same room with us. Both work equally well.
Which businesses we build websites for
Craft businesses that want the phone to ring, practices that need appointment links and clear opening hours, law firms and consultancies that live on trust and clarity, restaurants and cafés that need a menu that loads on a phone in the street, landscaping and building trades that want to show their work, founders launching a product. The structure differs; the standard – fast, clear, findable, honest – does not.
What we do not do: WordPress theme installs, template shops, or sites we would not put our own name on.
After launch: hosting, updates, ownership
Domain and hosting are set up in your name and cost €10–30 a month for a typical company site. You can update texts yourself, or book us for ongoing care – updates, monitoring, small changes – at a fixed monthly price with no contract lock-in. And if the site ever needs a bigger refresh, a relaunch keeps every URL that earns traffic.
Not sure you need a whole site yet? A landing page with a clean structure grows into a full website later without a rebuild.
Included in every company website
- Fixed written quote and timeline
- Custom design, built for your content
- Bilingual DE/EN with hreflang
- SEO foundation and structured data
- Contact form, analytics, cookie-consent setup
- Hand-off with a short training session
Frequently asked questions
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How much does it cost to have a website built?
- Websites with us start from €500. What yours costs depends on page count, languages, design and integrations – you get a fixed written quote after a short call, before any work starts.
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How long does it take?
- Four to eight weeks for most company websites, counted from the kick-off call. Missing texts and photos are the usual reason a project takes longer – not the build.
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Can I get a website built for free?
- Not professionally. Free page builders cost you in monthly fees, ads on your site, slow loading and a platform you cannot leave. A website is one of the cheapest business investments you will make; it should not be the one you save on.
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Agency or freelancer – which is better?
- An agency brings capacity and overhead; a freelancer brings a low rate and a single point of failure. A small studio gives you one accountable person, a written process and fixed prices. Which fits depends on your project size, not on a label.
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What do I need to provide?
- Your goal, a rough list of pages, existing texts and photos if you have them, and a logo. If you don't, we write the copy with you and a small visual system is part of most projects.
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Can I edit the site myself afterwards?
- Yes. Depending on how often content changes we keep it as simple editable templates or add a lightweight admin area – both without a heavy CMS.
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Do you also build websites for clients in Switzerland?
- Yes. Basel is a short train ride away; we invoice in CHF or EUR and handle .ch domains and the Swiss legal-notice requirements.
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Will I get a fixed price?
- Always, for scoped projects. Hourly billing is only for ongoing care and small changes after launch – so you always know what a project costs before it starts.