Guide for businesses
Build your website with Wix or hire a web designer?
By Alex MG Studio · · 5 min read
Quick answer
If your goal is to win customers, hiring a web designer pays off most: you get a professional result without spending hours on it, a website designed for Google and to turn visits into calls, and a website that is yours. Building it yourself on platforms such as Wix means a monthly fee forever, many hours of work and a result that depends on your design skills.
Quick comparison
| Doing it yourself (Wix and similar) | Web designer | |
|---|---|---|
| Your time | Many hours of design, copy and testing | One conversation and a review |
| Cost | Monthly fee for as long as the website exists | Fixed price for the design |
| Result | Depends on your design skills | Professional and designed to sell |
| Copy | You write it | Written to persuade |
| Speed and SEO | Adequate, with limits | Fully optimised |
| Can you take the website with you? | No, it lives on the platform | Yes, if it’s in your name |
The real cost of “doing it for free”
Platforms for building your own website are advertised as easy and cheap, but the monthly fee is paid for as long as the website exists: year after year, the total ends up exceeding the one-off cost of a professional design. And on top of that comes the most expensive thing of all: your time.
What you don’t see when you do it yourself
- Time: choosing a template, writing copy, adjusting the mobile version, testing… Hours you don’t spend on your business.
- Design: an amateur-looking website undermines trust, exactly the opposite of what you want.
- Copy: knowing what to say so that someone calls you is a craft in itself.
- Google: without SEO knowledge, it’s easy for your website not to appear in searches in your area.
- Dependence: if you stop paying the platform, the website disappears and you can’t take it with you.
What you gain by hiring a designer
- A professional website in days, not months of weekends.
- Copy that clearly explains what you do and encourages people to get in touch.
- Call and WhatsApp buttons exactly where they should be.
- Local SEO to appear when people search for you in your town.
- A website in your name that you can keep up to date without touching anything.
Questions to ask before hiring
- Will the website, domain and hosting be in my name?
- How many rounds of changes are included in the price?
- How are changes made afterwards? Is there a maintenance plan?
- What is the delivery time and the payment method?
And at Alex MG Studio? I work with three fixed-price plans for businesses all over Spain:
- Basic Plan, €149 + VAT: a one-page, mobile-friendly website with WhatsApp and call buttons, published on your domain.
- Business Plan, €290 + VAT: all of the above plus persuasive copy, local SEO and set-up in Google Search Console.
- Pro Plan, €490 + VAT: everything above with several pages, bookings or a calendar and custom animations.
- Optional maintenance, €19 + VAT a month: monthly changes, checks and backups, with no minimum term.
Payment: 25% when we start and 75% before delivery. The domain and hosting are registered in your business’s name, so the website is 100% yours.
See what each plan includes or request a no-obligation quote.