Web design agency for businesses, with one direct contact

You are not buying an agency. You are buying phone calls.

Most businesses don't need a brand workshop or a six-month roadmap. They need a website that makes the phone ring. So judge any web design agency, including mine, by three simple questions. Does the first screen say what you do and where? Can a visitor call or message you with one tap on a phone? Does the site appear when someone types your service and your town into Google?

Everything else supports those three things. The texts use the words your customers type, not the jargon from your brochure. The site loads quickly on a mobile connection. Your business details match your Google Business Profile exactly, letter for letter. The privacy policy, cookie banner and imprint are there and match what the site actually does. Good design matters, but it is the frame around the message, not the message itself.

Big agency or small studio? Be honest about what your project needs.

A large agency makes sense when your project needs many specialists at once: a complex web application, integrations with internal systems, a marketing team running campaigns in several countries, or a long approval chain on your side. In that case, account managers and project leads are not overhead. They keep a big machine running, and you pay for that machine because you need it.

For a website of one to twenty pages, that machine is usually more than you need. Every handover between sales, project management and development is a place where a detail can get lost. In a small studio there are no handovers: the person reading your brief writes your texts and builds your pages. The honest trade-off is that I am one person, not a team with holiday cover. For the full comparison, read agency, freelancer or studio.

One studio, four languages, clients on both sides of the border.

I am based in Battonya, a small town in south-east Hungary right on the Romanian border. I visit clients in my region in person, in places like Arad, Timișoara, Békéscsaba, Gyula and Szeged. For businesses in Austria and Germany I work remotely, by phone, WhatsApp, video call and e-mail. Hungary and Austria share the same time zone, and Romania is only one hour ahead, so we are always working at the same time of day.

Language is where many cross-border projects go wrong. I write and speak Romanian, Hungarian, German and English, so your website can serve customers in more than one market, with each language written natively rather than translated word for word. A guesthouse near the border, a car repair shop in Timișoara and a tradesperson in Austria have different customers who search in different ways. The texts reflect that.

Fixed price, or it isn't really a quote.

Hourly billing puts the risk on you: every question costs money, and you only learn the total at the end. I work with fixed packages, from a one-page Start website at €499 to online shops from €1,999. The price cards below show what each package includes. Extras such as an additional page, an extra language or a Google Business Profile setup also have fixed prices, listed openly on the website cost page.

Payment comes in two parts: a 50% deposit after you say yes, and 50% at launch. From the Essential package upwards you receive a free draft of your homepage within 48 working hours, with no obligation, before you pay anything. Hosting for the first year is included, and the domain is registered in your name. Deadlines are fixed too: 5 working days for Start, 7 for Essential and Business, counted from the day all texts and photos have arrived.

Launch day is not the finish line.

On launch day the site goes live and I submit it to Google straight away. You receive a short test report covering speed, display on mobile, tablet and desktop, links and spelling. I guarantee one measurable thing in writing: a PageSpeed score of 90 or higher on mobile and desktop. You can check it yourself with Google's free PageSpeed Insights tool. I will never promise you first place on Google, because nobody can honestly promise that.

After launch, monthly care costs €69, or €99 including a search report. It covers hosting after year one, daily backups, monitoring, security and a monthly report. If you want to edit texts yourself, an editor panel is available. And if you ever decide to move on, you get the complete archive of your website free of charge. After full payment, everything belongs to you. A web design company should make leaving easy: that is how you know it expects you to stay.