How long does a small business website take?

Ask an agency how long your website will take and you will hear "six to twelve weeks". Ask a builder platform and the answer is "as long as your evenings last". Neither number has much to do with the actual work — because three good pages is days of work, not months. Here is where the time really goes, and how the fast version works.

Where the weeks go

On a typical agency job the calendar fills with process: a discovery call to book the kickoff call, two design concepts, three revision rounds, and your project sitting in a queue behind bigger clients. All reasonable for a £5,000 bespoke build. For a plumber's three pages it is theatre.

What actually takes time

Two things, honestly: the words and the decisions. What you do, where you cover, what you charge from, which photo of the van. Get those answered up front in a short set of questions and the building part is quick — the structure of a great three-page site is a solved problem.

What the steps look like with 3 Wee Pages

• One sitting: you answer a few plain questions about your business. Most people finish in one go.
• While you answer: your three pages build in front of you, so you see the whole site before you pay.
• When you're happy: you sign it off. A person checks it against your answers, and anything customers rely on, like a registration.
• Then: your .co.uk is registered in your name and the site goes live.

We don't promise a date, because a person checks every site and some need a question answered first. But none of it waits for a meeting.

When slow is the right answer

A booking system, an online shop, custom illustration, a brand refresh — genuine multi-week work, worth doing properly. But do not let the big-project timeline hold your basic web presence hostage: get three sharp pages live first, start showing up on Google, and add the fancy things later if you ever need them.

Start yours today

See your site as you answer, live once a person has checked it, £149 with your own .co.uk included — start your wee site and see for yourself how little of this needed a meeting.