Questions people actually ask

Here, a website costs €500, €750 or €1,000 — one payment, agreed before anything starts.

Elsewhere in Malta the honest answer is “it depends”, because most studios quote per project. A traditional agency here typically lands between €3,000 and €8,000. Freelancers range from €500 to €2,500, usually without a clear scope. Nobody publishes numbers, which is exactly why the question keeps getting asked.

We publish ours. Starter is €500 for up to 3 pages, Business is €750 for up to 6 pages, and Custom is €1,000 for around 10 pages or something with moving parts. If your project genuinely doesn’t fit inside Custom, you get a fixed quote before we start — not an hourly meter.

Different overheads, not different craft.

An agency quote carries an office in Sliema, account managers, project managers, a sales team and a designer who has to bill through all of it. You’re paying for the structure as much as the website.

Here there is no office and no account manager. You talk to the person who builds the site. And the components — the layouts, the forms, the speed work, the SEO groundwork — are reused across projects, so each new site starts from a solid system instead of a blank page.

What you don’t get for €750 is a twelve-person team, a brand strategy workshop, or a six-week discovery phase. If you need those, an agency is the right call and we’ll say so.

They can, and for some businesses that’s genuinely the right answer.

But look at the real cost. Wix runs about €10–€30 a month forever, which is the same ballpark as a care plan — except the building, the updating, the SEO setup and the fixing are all your weekend. And the result usually looks like a Wix template, because it is one.

Here it’s custom, it’s built to load fast, and when something needs changing you send a WhatsApp instead of opening a website builder at 10pm.

If you enjoy doing it yourself, do it yourself. If you’d rather run your business, that’s what we’re for.

A Facebook page is rented ground. The rules, the reach and the layout belong to someone else, and they change without asking you.

More practically: when someone wants your opening hours, your prices or your menu, they Google you. What comes back — a proper website with the answers, or a page where the latest post is from March — is the first impression you get.

Keep the Facebook page. It’s good for regulars and for showing you’re alive. But own the thing people find when they search.

Prices on this site are shown including VAT where it applies, so the number you read is the number you pay. Malta’s standard VAT rate is 18%.

You get a proper invoice for the build and a monthly invoice for the care plan, both fine for your accountant.

Two to three weeks from our first coffee, for most websites.

Roughly: we meet and talk (about an hour), you get a design to look at within the first week, then a working site you can click through. When you’re happy, it goes live.

The part that decides the pace is content — your text, your photos, your menu. If those are ready when we start, two weeks is comfortable. If they’re not, we’ll help, and it takes a little longer. Nobody gets rushed.

We meet. Your shop, your site, a café — anywhere in Malta or Gozo, and the coffee’s on us.

The first conversation is the one that decides whether the website is any good, and it goes much better face to face than over a form. After that, WhatsApp handles most things, and we meet again whenever it’s easier than typing.

If you’d genuinely rather do everything remotely, that’s fine too. It’s your project.

No — that’s the entire point of the care plan.

You never touch a domain registrar, a hosting control panel, an SSL certificate or a software update. There is no dashboard you have to learn. When you want something changed, you send a message describing it in normal words and it gets changed.

If you do want to edit things yourself later — a menu, a price list, opening hours — we can set that up. Most people don’t want to, and that’s the sane choice.

Less than you’d think.

An hour of your time to talk. Your logo if you have one. Whatever photos you already have — phone photos of your actual business beat stock photography every time. A rough idea of what you want people to do when they land on the site: call, book, order, visit.

If you don’t have text written, don’t write it badly under pressure. Tell us what you’d say to a customer standing in front of you, and we’ll write from that.

We write the words with you. You talk, we draft, you correct the bits that aren’t how you’d say it. That’s included.

Photo editing — cropping, straightening, compressing so the site stays fast — is included too. What isn’t included is a photo shoot. If your business needs proper photography, we’ll tell you honestly and can quote it separately or point you at someone good.

No catch, but here’s the honest arithmetic.

Your monthly fee covers your domain name, hosting, the SSL certificate, daily backups, security updates and uptime monitoring. The sites we build are static, which means hosting them costs almost nothing — that’s the whole reason €5 is possible at all.

What the fee does not cover is new work: extra pages, new features, a redesign. Those are quoted upfront as a fixed price, so you always know the number before you say yes.

The €5 tier (Care Light) is deliberately limited to Starter one-pagers with occasional quick fixes. Most businesses are better on Care at €15, which includes 30 minutes of changes a month and a 48-hour response.

You cancel, and you keep your domain. That’s it.

There’s no contract term and no exit fee. Give us a month’s notice, we transfer the domain to whatever registrar you like, and we hand over your content. If you want the site files themselves to host elsewhere, you get those too.

A care plan you can leave any month has to stay worth paying for every month. That’s the point.

It means the website keeps working without you thinking about it.

Concretely: your domain gets renewed before it expires (a website going dark because a €10 renewal was missed is depressingly common), the hosting stays paid and monitored, the SSL certificate keeps your site from showing a browser warning, backups run daily, and security updates get applied.

On top of that, every plan includes some amount of “can you just change this” — the phone number, the opening hours, a price, a photo. Care at €15 includes 30 minutes a month, Care Plus €30 includes an hour plus content updates done for you.

You do. Both.

The domain is registered in your name, with you as the legal owner. We manage it so you never have to think about renewals, but it’s yours — if you leave, it goes with you.

The website content is yours outright. The underlying component system we build on stays ours, which is the reason the build costs €750 instead of €3,000. In practice this matters to almost nobody: if you leave, you leave with a working site, your domain and your content.

You get a fixed price for it before any work starts.

Bigger changes are run as small projects with their own agreed number — no hourly billing, no surprise invoices. Care plan members get priority in the schedule.

We’re not publishing a rate card for these yet, because we’d rather quote honestly from real jobs than make numbers up. Ask, and you’ll have a price.

Every build includes the groundwork: fast loading, proper page titles and descriptions, the structured data Google reads, a sitemap, and Search Console set up so you can see what people search for.

We also set up your Google Business Profile, which for a local business in Malta is often worth more than the website’s own ranking. That profile plus reviews is what puts you in the map results.

What we won’t do is promise a number one ranking. Anyone who does is guessing. What we can say is that most small business websites in Malta are slow and thin, and being neither is a real advantage.