Count templates, then content
A five-page site with five unique layouts can require more design work than a fifty-page site built from three templates. List the homepage, service template, article template, project template and any special experiences. Then count the content entries someone must prepare and upload.
Separate four budgets
Ask for discovery and design, implementation, content preparation, and recurring operations as separate lines. Translation, photography, integrations and migration should have explicit owners. A low build price can become an expensive project when these jobs appear later.
Use an estimate as a model
Our project calculator lets you choose scope and an assumed hourly rate. Its result is a planning scenario, not a Dardo quote or a market average. Change the assumptions to compare proposals on the same basis, then request a written scope for the actual project.