Website Development Services: What Is Included, What It Costs

GBCORP’s website development services cover a business site from brand to launch and afterwards: design in the browser, static pages that load in a second, search visibility built into every page, a console for the content that changes, enquiry forms that reach a real mailbox, and an optional support plan. The list below is what a fixed price includes, so a business can compare it item by item with any other quotation.

The service list

What the business supplies

Logo in vector, brand colours, the list of services or products with a paragraph each, photographs of the real business or a date for a shoot, domain access, and a mailbox on the domain. The plan lists each with a date, because a site waits on a missing photograph more often than on a missing developer.

What it costs to run

Static pages cost almost nothing to host and nothing to patch. The domain renews yearly in the business’s name. Analytics run in the business’s own account. The optional support plan is a known monthly figure. GBCORP lists these in the quotation so the running cost is known before the build cost is approved.

Search visibility is a service, not an add-on

Every page ships with its title, description, structured data and address, and the sitemap is submitted at launch. A blog on the same domain gives the site the articles that answer customer questions. GBCORP applies to client sites the method it uses to rank its own.

Checklist before requesting a quotation

• The one action a visitor should take.
• Pages needed: services, products, team, news, policies.
• Whether the site sells or informs.
• Markets and languages.
• Domain and mailbox access.
• Photographs available, or a plan to take them.

The numbers to expect

A business site designed and live in two to four weeks at a fixed price. A shop added in one to three weeks. Content changes in minutes from the console. Customised or more complex functionality is quoted separately before any work starts.

A worked example

A law firm has a site built five years ago that its staff cannot update, that loads slowly on a phone and that appears for nothing but the firm’s name. GBCORP applies the firm’s brand to its design system, designs the pages in the browser with the firm’s own photographs, builds a page per practice area with structured data, adds an insights section the partners write in the console, and delivers enquiries to a mailbox on the firm’s domain. The site launches in three weeks at the price agreed on day one. It loads in about a second, the practice pages begin appearing for their searches within a quarter, and the partners publish their own insights.

Multilingual and accessible from the first page

Languages are configured per site with right-to-left layouts as a setting, and the console holds each language’s content side by side. Contrast, focus states, keyboard navigation, alt text and readable type sizes are part of the design system, so every page passes accessibility checks without a separate project. A site built this way from the first page costs nothing extra; one retrofitted later costs a rebuild.

After launch

The business manages the pages that change from the console. The optional support plan covers changes beyond it, a quarterly review of the search numbers with the one page or article that would move them, and new page types as the business grows. The site never needs a patch, because static pages have nothing to patch, and the domain, hosting and analytics remain in the business’s name throughout.

The site that informs and the site that sells

An informing site explains, reassures and asks for one action. A selling site adds a catalogue, a cart and payments to the business’s own gateway. Both are built on the same foundation, so an informing site adds a shop later without a rebuild. The scoping call settles which the business needs today.

Forms that produce leads, not noise

The enquiry form posts to GBCORP’s own form service and delivers to a mailbox on the business’s domain, with the sender verified and spam filtered. Copies are kept in a console the business can search. No third-party marketing service sits between the visitor and the business.

The numbers a site should report

Visitors by page and by search term. Enquiries and their source. Load time on a phone. Pages appearing in search and their positions. The business’s own analytics account shows all of it, and the optional quarterly review reads it with the business.

Questions we hear first

Is the price really fixed?

Yes, for the scope in the quotation; changes are priced as changes before they start.

Can we see the design before it is built?

In the browser at real sizes, approved before the remaining pages are built.

What if we need a shop later?

It is added on the same foundation; the catalogue and console carry over.

Do we own the site?

Yes: domain, hosting, analytics and the pages, in your name.

Where to start

The GBCORP web development hub explains the approach; the GBCORP Web Development product is the priced starting point. For choosing the company, read what a website development company should be judged on.

GBCORP operates across 17 countries on 4 continents through six pillars: AI & IT, Innovation, Sustainability, Infrastructure, Business Lounge, and EV's & Solutions.