Corporate website from a small business card site to a full catalog
We design and build corporate websites in four to eight weeks. We plan the structure, write the copy for the key pages, design the layouts, build the site on WordPress and train your team to run it. Every service your company sells gets its own page with a price, and customers, partners and job candidates each find their answer.
01 Definition
A corporate website is a multi-page site for a company, where different visitors look for different things. A customer wants the service and the price, a partner checks credentials and experience, a candidate reads the job listings. There is no single button that every block leads to, so most of the work is in the structure.
A typical corporate site has a homepage, pages for each service or product, a section with finished projects, an about page, a blog and a contact page. The service pages bring in the inquiries from search, because that is where people land from Google.
A business card site is the smallest corporate website: one to five pages with a list of services, a short text about the company and contact details. Independent doctors, lawyers, tradespeople and small studios order them when they only need to be found by name and be easy to call. If one page is enough, a landing page is the honest choice, and it costs less.
A landing page sells one offer to people who arrive from an ad. An ecommerce website takes payment for products in a cart. A corporate website collects inquiries for services that need a conversation before the purchase: construction, medicine, law, equipment, supplies for business.
02 Sizes
Price and timeline depend on how many different kinds of page have to be designed. Corporate sites fall into three rough sizes, and the first step is to decide honestly which one is yours.
03 Sample
This is the kind of site map we agree on before design starts. The company is made up: Ventline designs and installs ventilation for restaurants, offices and warehouses.
Homepage. What the company does, for which kinds of premises and in which area. Three main services with "from" prices.
answers "where am I" without scrollingServices, 4 pages. Ventilation design, installation, maintenance, ventilation for restaurants.
one service, one page, one Google queryProjects, 6 pages. An index and five case studies: a 120-seat restaurant, a two-floor office, a warehouse with a cold room.
floor area, timeline, before and after photosAbout. Year founded, engineers with names and photos, licenses and certificates.
Blog, 3 pages. The index and two first articles: what restaurant ventilation costs and how often it needs servicing.
Careers. Two open positions, terms, who to write to.
Contacts. Address with a map, opening hours, a phone number for urgent calls, company details.
17 pages on 6 templates04 Schedule
The schedule below is for a site of fifteen to twenty pages and eight weeks. A business card site follows the same path in four, because it has fewer texts and templates.
An hour-long conversation with the owner or the head of sales. In parallel we collect the queries people use to find your services on Google and review five to seven competitor sites.
We decide which pages are needed and what goes on each. For the homepage and a service page we build wireframes with the headlines already written. You approve the structure.
We write the homepage, the about page and the service pages. Facts are checked with your specialists and an editor reads every text. You review and mark up edits in Google Docs.
The homepage and one service page first, to agree on the style. Then the remaining templates for desktop and phone, already with real text.
We build the templates, set up WordPress, forms and analytics, load the copy and photos and move over whatever is needed from the old site. All of it is visible on a test address.
We test on phones, set up redirects from the old addresses and switch the site to your domain. We show your person how to add pages, articles and job listings.
05 Scope
Start to finish means one team does the structure, copy, design and build, and you get a site on your own domain with the logins and a manual. A site with the scope below starts at $5,500.
06 Plainly
Design has little to do with it. A site goes stale when last year's price is still on it, a closed job is still listed and the latest blog post is from the spring before last. The visitor draws a simple conclusion: nobody is looking after this company.
So at the structure stage we ask who will update each section. If nobody will, we leave the section out or take it on ourselves as part of maintenance.
07 Management
A corporate website on WordPress is built so that an office manager or a marketer can run it, and a developer is rarely needed. After training, your person does four things without us.
You will need a developer for something new: a template that doesn't exist yet, a calculator, a CRM integration. System updates and backups can be handed over to website maintenance.
08 Prices
A corporate website costs from $5,500. Here is an example: a company has nine services, and the base price covers copy for five of them. Four more service pages of 600 words add from $432 (4 × $108), so $5,932 in total. With three case studies the total comes to $8,032.
| Service | What's included | Turnaround | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate website | Structure, key page copy, design, build, content management system | 4–8 weeks | from $5,500 / website |
| Landing page development | Wireframe, copy, design, responsive build, form and analytics | 2–3 weeks | from $2,500 / landing page |
| Website redesign | Audit, new structure, design, content migration, redirects | 3–6 weeks | from $3,500 / website |
| Website maintenance | Updates, backups, monitoring, up to 5 hours of edits | monthly | from $400 / month |
| Case studies | Interview, structure, copy, client sign-off | 5–7 days | from $700 / case study |
Fifteen service pages are built on one template, so they barely change the build price. New page types do: a product catalog, a branch page, a plan comparison, a partner section.
A price calculator, online booking, a catalog with filters, a language switcher, sending inquiries to a CRM. Each feature is a separate line in the estimate, and some can wait for a second stage.
We write the copy beyond the base scope, or you do: the page template is already built and shows what belongs in each block. SEO copywriting for a service page costs from $0.18 per word.
If the old site brings in visitors from Google, we move its content and redirect every old address to the new one. When the structure stays the same, a redesign from $3,500 may be enough.
09 Questions
From $5,500 for a site of up to ten pages, with copy for the key pages, design, a WordPress build and training. The price rises with the number of templates, the amount of copy and features such as a calculator or a catalog. We send an estimate by stage within one business day of the brief.
A card site of three to five pages is priced as a corporate website in its smallest scope, from $5,500, and takes four weeks. If a single page with your services and contacts is enough, that is a landing page: from $2,500 and two to three weeks. Which one fits you becomes clear after the brief.
As many as you have separate services and questions to answer. For a company with three services, the minimum is a homepage, three service pages, an about page and contacts. Don't build a section "for later" with nothing in it: an empty page is obvious at once.
Yes, and we recommend it for larger sites. The first stage is the homepage, services, about and contacts; the second adds case studies and the blog. The price and date of each stage are fixed in writing before work starts.
Before we start, we look at which pages of the old site bring visitors from search. We move their content and redirect the old addresses to the new ones, so links and bookmarks don't lead nowhere. Rankings can move after a migration, and no one can prevent that entirely, but with redirects the losses are much smaller.
If you work with customers or partners in other countries, yes. The site opens in one main language, and the others are added as separate versions. English and Ukrainian copy is written from scratch; German and French are translated from finished text. See copywriting in other languages.
Most companies choose a .com or the domain of their own country. We pick the address together with you and register it in your company's name.
Searches for your company name find it a few days after indexing. For queries about your services, new pages usually take several months to gain positions, and we don't promise first place. We lay the foundation: a separate page for each service and headings built around the queries. After that, SEO services take over.
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