PixelClub Compared

Most small businesses weigh up the same four options: build a website yourself, pay a designer to build one, join PixelClub, or carry on without.

Here they are side by side. We'll let you draw your own conclusions.

Side by Side

The same questions asked of each option. All PixelClub prices exclude VAT.

A DIY builder
(Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy)
A traditional build
(agency or freelancer)
PixelClub
Doing nothing
Who builds it
You
A designer
A real person, around your logo and words
Nobody
Who writes the words
You
Usually you
We do, from your notes and photos
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Up front
Nothing
£1,500 to £5,000
Nothing
Nothing
Every month
A plan, plus extras
Hosting (about £16.50) and often a care plan (£65 to £245)
£36, everything included
Nothing
Domain and business email
Often extra
Often extra
Included
-
After launch
Improves when you improve it
Frozen the day you get it
Keeps improving, at no extra cost
-
Who you call
A support team
The agency, if they still look after it
The person who built it
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Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy

Website builders are good tools if you want to build it yourself. The price you see is for the tool - the design, the words and the evenings are yours.

Watch the number after the first year, too. Builders often add the domain, email and transaction fees, and introductory prices rise at renewal - Hostinger's renewal increase is 268%.

With PixelClub, a real person designs it, we write it, and everything is in the price. There is no bigger number later.

A Traditional Build

A small business website normally costs £1,500 to £5,000 to build in the UK. After that you still need hosting - about £16.50 a month on its own - and a care plan for updates and security runs £65 to £245 a month.

And a website you buy outright is frozen the day you get it.

PixelClub is £36 a month with all of that included. It's modular - every site shares one platform, which is exactly why it costs what it does.

Doing Nothing

You'd be far from alone: 32% of UK businesses have no website, and 35% of sole traders.

It costs nothing - until someone looks you up and finds nothing, or finds a competitor instead.

PixelClub is usually live in about a week, with no contract.

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