Work out what your website actually needs to fix.
A rebuild is expensive and often the wrong answer. Describe what your site is not doing and askBizly will tell you whether it needs fixing or replacing, what that should cost, and who could do it.
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Before I suggest anything — what would a good month look like, and what can you pay for a lead?
That’s workable. Here’s how:
- Understand your business, customers and objectivesWhat you sell, who buys, and where you want to get to
- Create your growth strategyWhere the £2.5k goes, and in what order
- Fix what’s holding you backThe changes you can make yourself
- Connect you with a partnerOnly if you need a specialist
AI built on real human expertise
askBizly applies the judgement of people who have grown businesses, led marketing teams and hired agencies — more than twenty years of it. Their criteria shape what it asks and how it answers.
A growth plan built for your business
Not a template. It asks what you sell, where you want to get to and what you have to spend, then sets out what to do, in what order, and what it should cost.
Partners aligned to your objectives
If you want help executing, askBizly briefs partners against the plan you just built — and says why each one fits. It is free to you; partners pay only when an introduction becomes work.
Start here
What’s going wrong with your website?
Pick the website problem that sounds like yours.
Before you pay for a new website
The instinct when a website stops performing is to replace it. It is a satisfying decision, it produces something visibly new, and there is never a shortage of agencies willing to agree with you. It is also frequently the wrong call.
Start by separating three different complaints that all get expressed as "we need a new website". The site looks dated. The site does not convert. The site cannot do something you need. Only the third reliably requires a rebuild.
Looking dated matters less than owners expect, and is often solved with typography, photography and spacing on the existing build. Not converting is usually about clarity and speed rather than aesthetics — a plain page that immediately says what you do, for whom, and what to do next will outperform a beautiful one that makes visitors work it out. Both are weeks of work, not months.
When a rebuild genuinely is the answer, the platform decision matters more than the design, because it determines whether you can maintain the thing yourself afterwards. askBizly will work through which of the three problems you actually have, and what fixing it should cost.
How it works
Work out what your website actually needs to fix.
Describe the traffic, the enquiries and what the site has to do. askBizly says whether to refine, rebuild or replace — and what that should cost.
Understand your business and your website goals
Your goals for your website, what you’re doing now and what you’ve got to work with — in your own words, one question at a time.
Work out what’s holding your website back
What you tell it — and any proposal, report or figures you share — is assessed against clear website criteria, with what’s known kept apart from what’s assumed.
Create your website strategy
An action plan, a budget, a review or a brief for your website — with its evidence, assumptions and limits shown.
Help you execute
Do it yourself, go back to your supplier with better questions, or look at website partners — you decide.
Fix the problem
Four ways askBizly can help with web design
Get a plan for the site, a realistic website budget, a review of an agency or proposal, or a brief for the right web design partner.
Diagnosis
A site that gets traffic but no leads is a conversion problem.
askBizly works out whether the page, the offer or the speed is losing people — and when a polish will do versus a rebuild you do not need yet.
- Fix, rebuild or leave it — decided first
- Message match, proof and the form checked
- What to change before you hire a designer
Budget
Know what a website should cost before you ask for quotes.
UK brochure sites, landing pages and custom builds live in different ranges. askBizly breaks down design, build and content — and what your budget can realistically buy.
- Template, custom and rebuild ranges kept apart
- What £3,000 versus £15,000 actually gets you
- Questions that make quotes comparable
Review
Check a web design proposal before you sign it.
Share the scope, sitemap or quote. askBizly looks at whether the pages match the job, whether SEO and forms are in the price, and what is missing.
- Scope judged against what the site has to do
- Hidden extras in “from £X” quotes flagged
- Questions to put before you pay a deposit
Partners
A clear website brief, then only agencies who fit.
If you do need a web design partner, askBizly turns the job, pages and budget into a brief and looks for agencies whose records fit. Nobody is contacted until you say so.
- You see the brief before anyone does
- You approve the brief first
- No obligation to hire
Web design questions people ask first
A simple brochure site on a template, properly set up, runs roughly £1,500 to £4,000. A bespoke design with custom pages and integrations is usually £5,000 to £15,000. Ecommerce and anything with logins, bookings or custom functionality starts around £10,000 and rises quickly. Sites offered for a few hundred pounds are almost always a stock template with your logo dropped in, which is occasionally exactly what a business needs.
Rebuild when the structure is the problem: you cannot edit it, it is not responsive on mobile, the platform is unsupported, or the site was built around a business you no longer run. Improve when the bones are sound and the issues are cosmetic or content-based, which is more often the case than agencies tend to suggest. A useful test is whether your complaints are about how it looks and reads, or about what it cannot do.
The usual causes, in the order worth checking, are: the page does not say clearly what you do and who for, there is no obvious next step or the contact route is buried, the site is slow or awkward on a phone where most of your traffic is, or the traffic itself is the wrong audience arriving from search terms that were never going to convert. The last one is a marketing problem rather than a website problem, which is why it is worth ruling out early.
A template site with your copy and photos is two to four weeks if you can supply the content. A designed brochure site is typically six to twelve weeks, including the time you will spend on feedback. Anything with bookings, logins or ecommerce is measured in months. The delay is almost never the design — it is waiting for copy, images and decisions. If a quote promises a custom site in a fortnight, they are building a template and calling it custom.
Ask to see sites they built for businesses like yours, and whether those sites still look maintained a year later. The brief should name the pages, the integrations and who writes the copy — not “a modern, responsive website”. You should own the domain, the hosting login and the files. If they will not give you the keys, you are renting a site, not buying one.
A template is enough when you need a brochure, a contact form and a handful of service pages, and you can live inside the platform’s limits. Custom is worth it when the site is the product — bookings, configurators, member areas — or when the template forces a layout that hides what you sell. Most UK small businesses overbuy custom. askBizly will tell you which side of that line you are on before you take quotes.
Yes. The advice is free for business owners and always will be. askBizly is paid by the partners it introduces, and only when you choose to be introduced. Nothing is sent to anyone and nobody contacts you until you say so.
Stop guessing. Start growing.
Describe the traffic and the enquiries. Free, with no web agency contacting you unless you ask.