"How much does a website cost?" is usually the first question a Kingsland, St. Marys, or Brunswick business owner asks — right before "why is the range so wide?" Both are fair. Here's a straight answer instead of a vague "it depends."

The short answer: $3,500–$15,000+ for a custom small business site

A clean, custom-designed brochure site for a service business typically lands toward the lower end of that range. A larger build with ecommerce, booking, or a customer portal — common for Brunswick's coastal tourism and hospitality businesses — runs higher. A flat number with no questions asked first is a guess, not a quote.

Why pricing varies across Camden and Glynn County

Kingsland and St. Marys skew toward home services, healthcare, and trades businesses serving a military and family community near Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, while Brunswick and the surrounding Golden Isles carry a stronger tourism and hospitality layer. A lead-generation site built around service-area pages is a very different project from a hospitality site built around bookings and a visual gallery, even at a similar page count.

What actually drives the price up or down

Four things move the number more than anything else: whether the design is custom or built on a pre-made theme, how many pages and custom features you need, whether your content and photos are ready to go, and whether local SEO is built in from the start or treated as an afterthought.

What a cheap template site actually costs you later

A $500–$1,000 template site looks like the responsible choice up front. Over two or three years, it's often the more expensive path — slower load times, a ceiling on what you can add as the business grows, and eventually a full rebuild. Weigh it as total cost of ownership, not just the invoice.

Questions to ask before you sign

Is this custom-coded or theme-based? Do you keep ownership of the code and CMS login once it's done? Is local SEO for your specific Georgia city part of the build, or an upsell after launch? A team confident in its work answers all three plainly — even one working from just across the state line in Jacksonville.