Cheap website design in Ghana costs from about GHS 500 for a template with your details in it to 2,000 at the top of the published starter market. Our own Starter tier is GHS 2,000 to 3,500, so we are not the cheap option and this post is not going to pretend cheap is always wrong. Sometimes it is exactly right. It explains what you get, what you do not, and what it costs when it goes wrong.
What GHS 500 buys
A template, chosen from a library, with your logo, your colours and your text placed into its slots. Shared hosting, meaning your site is on a server with hundreds of others and shares their traffic and their problems. A contact form. Usually a domain for the first year. Built in a day or two by someone who will build several more that week.
It will exist, it will have your phone number on it, and for some businesses that is the whole job. It is a genuine product and it is dishonest to pretend otherwise.
When cheap is the right call
When the site is a placeholder. You are launching, you need somewhere to send people, and you will replace it in a year when you know what the business is. Spend as little as possible.
When the site is a business card. A tradesperson whose work comes by referral, who needs to be findable by name and have a number on a page. The site is not where customers decide. Spend as little as possible.
When the alternative is nothing. A cheap site that exists beats an expensive site that is still being planned. Buy the cheap one, and read what a website costs when you are ready for the next one.
What breaks, and when
Speed, first. Templates carry code for every feature the template supports, whether you use it or not, and shared hosting responds slowly under load. On a mid range Android on a mobile connection, which is where most of your visitors are, a template site on shared hosting commonly takes several seconds to show anything. Visitors leave. Google measures this and ranks accordingly.
Security, second. Templates run on software that needs updating, usually WordPress with a stack of plugins, and at the cheap price nobody is paid to update it. Automated scanners find unpatched software by the thousand. The site is eventually broken into, not because anyone targeted it but because it was there.
Ownership, third. At the cheap end it is common for the domain and the hosting to be registered by the developer. When you want to move, or they stop trading, the site is not yours to take. Always ask whose name the domain is in.
Support, last. There is no support at GHS 500, because there cannot be. When the form stops sending, you find out from a customer, and the person who built it has built two hundred since. What maintenance should cost explains what you are not getting.
What it costs to rebuild later
A cheap site that has to be replaced costs the cheap price plus the rebuild price plus whatever the cheap site cost the business while it was slow, hacked or down. If the rebuild is a GHS 2,000 to 3,500 Starter site, the cheap site was a GHS 500 deposit on a GHS 2,000 purchase, and the year in between was the expensive part.
That is the honest arithmetic. It does not say never buy cheap. It says buy cheap when the site is a placeholder or a business card, and buy properly when the site is where customers decide whether to trust you.
How to buy cheap without getting burned
If cheap is the right call, three questions protect you. Whose name will the domain be in. Can I have the login to the hosting. What happens if I want to move it. The answers you want are yours, yes, and you take everything with you. A cheap site with those three answers is a fair purchase. A cheap site without them is a rental.
Our price list is not the cheap option, and it says so. It is the option for when the site has to still be working, and still be found, in three years.
Cheap website design in Ghana, from about GHS 500, buys a template on shared hosting with no support, and that is exactly right for a placeholder or a business card. It is wrong for a site customers judge you by, because what breaks is speed, security and ownership, and the rebuild costs more than buying properly once. Whichever you buy, make sure the domain is in your name.
How much is a cheap website in Ghana?
From about GHS 500 for a template with your details, to 2,000 at the top of the published starter market. Our Starter tier is GHS 2,000 to 3,500 and is not the cheap option.
Is a cheap website worth it?
Yes when the site is a placeholder or a business card and you will replace it or never rely on it. No when customers decide whether to trust you from it, because speed, security and support are what the low price leaves out.
What is the difference between a cheap website and an expensive one?
Custom design rather than a template, hosting that is fast and patched rather than shared, testing on real phones, technical work that lets Google find the pages, and someone who answers after launch. The pages may look similar in a screenshot. They behave very differently on a phone in Kumasi.
Can I upgrade a cheap website later?
Usually not. A template site is rebuilt rather than upgraded, so the cheap price is a deposit rather than a first instalment. Buy it knowing that.
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