Websites
How Much Does a Small Business Website Cost in Germany?
Pages, design, content, features and languages drive the price. Add running costs, legal pages and VAT, and you have a realistic first-year budget for Germany.
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Practical answers for small business owners, freelancers and founders in Germany: what a website or web app costs, how to prepare a project and how to recognise a quote that fits.
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Three guides worth reading before you send any project enquiry.
Websites
How Much Does a Small Business Website Cost in Germany?
Pages, design, content, features and languages drive the price. Add running costs, legal pages and VAT, and you have a realistic first-year budget for Germany.
7 min read
Project planning
Website or Web App: Which Does Your Business Need?
Logins, bookings, a dashboard: does your idea really need a custom web app? Five questions to choose between a website, an existing tool and building your own.
6 min read
Project planning
Website Brief Template: What to Send Before You Ask for a Quote
A copyable brief for a small business website, sized for up to 10 pages and adapted to Germany, with notes on each section and a filled-in example.
8 min read
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Websites
Website Maintenance: What It Covers and What Costs Extra
Updates, backups, monitoring and security fixes are maintenance. Hosting, content edits and new features often are not. Here is how to pin down the scope first.
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Websites
Which Pages Does a Small Business Website Need?
The core pages, the two legal pages every business site in Germany needs, and when one page is enough, with a page planner and two example site structures.
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Websites
Website Builder or Web Developer? How to Decide
When a DIY website builder is genuinely enough, when hiring someone pays off, and what stays your responsibility in Germany whoever builds the site.
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Websites
Planning a Website Redesign Without Losing Content or Search Visibility
How to protect your old site's content and URLs during a redesign: a URL inventory, a redirect map with a worked example, and checklists for before and after launch.
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Websites
Bilingual Website in German and English: Content, Cost and SEO
Do you need German and English on your business website? What to translate first, how to set up language versions properly, and what a second language costs over time.
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Websites
Website Visitors but No Enquiries? How to Find the Cause
A diagnostic checklist for small business sites in Germany: quick technical checks first, then audience, message, language, contact path and trust. No invented benchmarks.
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Websites
Business Contact Form: Which Fields Do You Actually Need?
A field-by-field table for your business contact form in Germany: required, optional or avoid, with reasons, GDPR notes, accessibility and spam protection without puzzles.
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Web apps
How Much Does a Custom Web App Cost in Germany?
Roles, data, integrations and running costs decide what a web app costs. How to size your idea and compare local and offshore quotes on equal terms.
8 min read
Web apps
Web App Brief Template: Describe Your App Without Writing Code
Describe your app idea so developers can quote it properly: a copyable brief covering roles, workflows, data, integrations and what is explicitly out of scope.
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Web apps
Web App MVP: Which Features Belong in Version One?
Long wish list, limited budget: a simple test and a copyable worksheet to decide what goes into version one of your web app and what can wait.
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Web apps
Replacing a Spreadsheet with a Web App: When It's Worth It
Keep the spreadsheet, switch to an off-the-shelf tool or build a small web app? A signals checklist, a three-way comparison and a hypothetical example.
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Web apps
Customer Portal: What the First Version Should Include
A first-version scope table for a small client portal, with roles, login and GDPR basics, and an honest look at when buying beats building.
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Web apps
Booking Software or a Custom Booking App? How to Decide
Most small businesses should start with ready-made booking software. A decision table and trial checklist show when a custom booking app is worth it.
6 min read
Web apps
AI Features for Small Businesses: What's Useful and What the Rules Say
Drafts, triage, search over your own content or a chatbot? A checklist for AI use cases covering data protection and the AI Act's transparency duties.
8 min read
Project planning · 5
Project planning
How to Compare Website Quotes: Scope, Costs and Questions to Ask
One template with the same rows for every quote, the questions to ask about gaps, and the German contract terms worth knowing before you sign.
6 min read
Project planning
Website or Web App: Which Does Your Business Need?
Logins, bookings, a dashboard: does your idea really need a custom web app? Five questions to choose between a website, an existing tool and building your own.
6 min read
Project planning
From First Enquiry to Launch: How a Website Project Works
Eight steps from first enquiry to life after launch, with what you supply, what your developer does, and the German-specific items that often hold up a launch.
8 min read
Project planning
Website Brief Template: What to Send Before You Ask for a Quote
A copyable brief for a small business website, sized for up to 10 pages and adapted to Germany, with notes on each section and a filled-in example.
8 min read
Project planning
How Long Does It Take to Build a Small Business Website?
Why the build is rarely the bottleneck, what actually slows a website project down in Germany, and how to plan backwards from a fixed launch date.
7 min read
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