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“How much for a website?” is the first question almost every client asks me — and the honest answer is that it depends on a handful of things, none of them mysterious. This post lays out what actually drives the price, what I saw when I checked the market in October 2026, and exactly what I charge, in the open. Prices and market notes in this post were checked in October 2026.

What actually drives the price

Pages. A 3-page site (Home, About, Contact) is a different job from a 10-page site with a page per service. More pages means more layout, more writing, more checking — that’s the biggest single driver.

Features. A brochure site is the base case. Online booking, a store, a blog, or forms that route enquiries to the right inbox all add real work, and they should be priced as the extras they are, not buried in a vague quote.

Design. Starting from a template and making it truly yours is quicker than a fully custom design. Neither is “wrong” — but you should know which one you’re paying for.

Content. If you hand over finished text and photos, the build is faster. If the designer is also writing your pages, that’s copywriting, and it’s fair for it to cost more — as a named extra, quoted upfront.

Revisions and support. How many revision rounds are included, and is there support after launch? A cheap quote with zero revisions and no support often costs more in the end.

What you’ll see in the wild

When I benchmarked Wix gigs on Fiverr in October 2026, established sellers’ packages clustered around medians of roughly $80 for a basic tier, $200 for the middle tier and $300 for the top tier. You’ll also see $25 offers — those are usually a template with your name pasted in, minimal revisions and no real setup behind it — and you’ll see agencies quoting thousands, which is a different product entirely (a team, an office, and overhead you’re helping to pay for).

The useful question isn’t “who’s cheapest?” It’s “what exactly is included, and who owns the result?”

My prices, in the open

I keep mine simple, and they’re the same on Fiverr and on my Wix Websites page:

• Starter — $70. 3 pages, 5 days, 1 revision. For a business that needs a proper online home, fast.
• Business — $180. 6 pages, 7 days, 2 revisions. The popular one — room for your services, your story and your proof.
• Growth — $290. 10 pages, 10 days, 2 revisions, with 14 days of support after launch.

Whichever tier: you own everything — the domain, the site, the content, the logins. If we ever part ways, your website stays yours. No lock-in, no hostage situations, no monthly fee to me for the site itself.

The costs people forget

Two honest extras, neither of them paid to me. Your domain name is yours and renews yearly with your registrar. And Wix’s own plan is separate — Wix charges for hosting your site on their platform, and their current prices are on their pricing page; I won’t quote figures here that could change next month. Budget for those two renewals and there are no surprises.

So what should you budget?

If you need a clean, professional presence and your content is ready, a basic tier does it. If your website has to actively win you work — service pages, booking, proof — the middle tier is where most of my clients land, and it’s the one I’d point my own brother at. And if a quote you got elsewhere is far below these numbers, ask what got left out before you celebrate the bargain.

Not sure which you need? Start with my Wix Websites page for the full package details, or get in touch and tell me about your business — I’ll build you a free mockup of your homepage first, and we only talk price properly once you’ve seen it and like it. You can also order through Fiverr if you prefer the platform’s protection.

— Bradwin, TheWixard (Wix & WordPress designer, Namibia — working with clients in the US, Canada and Australia)

Your Wix site is not invisible because it’s on Wix. It’s invisible because of fixable details.

I design Wix and WordPress websites, and when a site isn’t showing up on Google, the cause is almost never the platform. It’s one of these twelve things. Work through them in order — the first six are the ones Google and social platforms actually read before a human ever sees your page.

1. Every page needs its own title.

If your About, Services and Contact pages all carry the same title as your homepage, search engines read them as copies of one page, not as separate pages worth ranking. Write a unique title for each page that says what that page is about.

2. Every page needs its own description.

The meta description is the short text under your title in search results. It’s your free advert. One or two sentences, written for a person, naming the service and the place or audience it serves.

3. Check your canonicals aren’t pointing everything home.

A canonical tag tells Google “this is the main version of this page.” If every page’s canonical points back to the homepage, you’re telling Google to ignore the rest of your site. Each page should point to itself.

4. Use one clear heading structure.

One H1 per page — the main headline. H2s for sections underneath it. Headings are how a crawler maps your page; a page with five H1s is a page with no clear topic.

5. Fix your share image.

When someone shares your page on Facebook, LinkedIn or WhatsApp, those platforms do not read your page the way a browser does. They use your Open Graph image — and if it’s a small square logo or a relative file path, your share shows up blank or cropped. Use a proper 1200 × 630 image with an absolute URL, plus its width, height and alt text.

6. Add structured data (JSON-LD).

Structured data is a small block of code that tells Google, in its own language, who you are: your business name, what you offer, where you are. For a service business, a ProfessionalService or LocalBusiness schema on the homepage is the starting point. It doesn’t guarantee rich results — it guarantees Google isn’t guessing.

7. Make sure broken links return a real 404.

If a made-up or deleted address on your site returns a normal “200 OK” with a friendly not-found message, that’s a soft 404 — and it wastes your crawl budget and confuses indexing. A missing page should say it’s missing, with the correct status code.

8. Submit your sitemap — don’t just have one.

Having a sitemap.xml file is not the same as Google using it. Submit it in Google Search Console and in Bing Webmaster Tools (Bing can import your verified site straight from Search Console, which saves the second setup). This is the single step I see skipped most often, and it’s often the difference between “indexed” and “invisible.”

9. Your content has to exist outside the code.

Pages built entirely in JavaScript, with the words loaded afterwards, can leave crawlers and social platforms staring at an empty shell. If your important words aren’t in the page when it first loads, assume some crawlers will never see them. This is exactly why a blog with real, readable articles outperforms a beautiful page nobody’s crawler can read.

10. Name your language and region properly.

Set your page language to your actual audience — for a Namibian business serving clients abroad, that means an honest en / en-NA setting that matches the rest of your page signals, not a leftover default.

11. Write for one search per page.

Each service you sell deserves its own page chasing its own search. “Wix website designer,” “WordPress website” and “AI voice agent for my business” are three different people with three different problems. One page trying to answer all three usually answers none of them well.

12. Publish something worth ranking, regularly.

Google ranks pages, not intentions. A blog post that genuinely answers a question your customers ask — what a website costs, how long it takes, what to prepare before hiring a designer — is an asset that keeps working. One useful post every week or two beats ten thin ones published in a panic.

Don’t want to work through this yourself?

I build new Wix and WordPress websites — and complete rebuilds of old ones — with basic SEO setup included from day one. Get in touch or find me as TheWixard on Fiverr.

— Bradwin, TheWixard (Wix & WordPress designer, Namibia — working with clients in the US, Canada and Australia)