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Studio 1 · Barnsley

The Price is Website

Do you need a £500 website, or a proper one?

Good evening and welcome to The Price is Website! Tonight’s question: will a £500 website do, or do you need a proper one? Let’s find out!

Barry Bidwell

Seven questions, one budget, one big reveal. Barry tells you whether Wix, Squarespace or a template will do, or whether you need a website built for you. It takes about a minute.

Question 1 of 7What’s the website for?
Question 2 of 7Where does your work come from now?
Question 3 of 7Will you pay for ads that send people to it?
Question 4 of 7What does it need to do?
Question 5 of 7How much is there to show?
Question 6 of 7If the website went down for a week, what would happen?
Question 7 of 7Have you had a cheap website before?
The last questionAnd finally… what’s in your wallet tonight?

How it decides

Every answer adds points. A website that has to bring in work, take bookings, carry ads or hold up the business scores high. A hobby or an idea you’re testing scores low.

Under 10 points, a £500 website will do. At 10 or more, your budget decides between the other three results.

If you give us your website, we check it while you play. Slow on phones, a broken contact form or lots of failed checks add up to four points.

The rules come from things we’ve already written: what a website costs, why cheap ones cost twice, and when Wix is fine.

Phone gone quiet?

Tell us what’s going on. We’ll tell you straight whether a new website fixes it and what it’ll cost. If it won’t fix it, we’ll say that too.