Straight answers

The questions people actually ask.

If yours is not here, put it in the form and you will get a real answer, not a sales call.

How much does a small business website cost?

Web design runs $499 to $1,999 for most small businesses, quoted flat before any work starts. A one-page site with a contact form is $499. Five pages with service pages and on-page SEO is $999. Twelve pages with a booking or quote flow is $1,999. If you already have a site and only need it rebuilt, that is $799. Those prices cover the design and development work. The domain is billed on top at whatever the registrar charges — usually $10 to $20 a year, more if the name you want is in demand. You get the real number in writing before you pay anything.

Do you offer a military discount?

Yes — $100 off any build for active duty, veterans, and military families. Salted Honey is a military family owned business, so this is not a promotion we run and then quietly drop. Mention it in the form and it comes off the quote. No verification service, no paperwork.

Do I need to buy a domain first?

No. We handle the domain for you — buying it, pointing it at the site, and keeping it renewed so it never quietly lapses. The registration is billed on top of the build price at exactly what the registrar charges, with no markup. Most names are $10 to $20 for the first year; short, common, or already-owned ones can cost a great deal more, and we will tell you the number before anything is bought. If you already own a domain, we work with the one you have and change nothing about who holds it.

How long does a website take to build?

About two weeks for most sites, from deposit to launch. The part that usually slows a project down is not the building — it is waiting on photos, copy, and logins. If you have those ready, it moves faster.

Who manages the domain and the hosting?

We do, and that is most of what the care plan is for. Registration, DNS, hosting, SSL certificates and renewals all sit with us, so there is no account for you to remember and no expired card that takes your site dark on a Sunday. It is built on ordinary, widely used tools — nothing proprietary — so if you ever decide to take it elsewhere, tell us and we will hand over the site files and start the domain transfer. We would rather you stay because $50 a month is worth it than because leaving is hard.

Will a new website help me show up on Google?

A new site removes the things that stop you from showing up: slow loading, pages that render blank to a crawler, missing structured data. That is necessary but not sufficient. Ranking locally depends far more on your Google Business Profile and your reviews than on your website. Anyone who guarantees you rankings is guessing — no rankings, traffic, or sales are guaranteed here.

What if I already have a website?

Then a redesign at $799 is usually the right call. Your content and your domain stay; the slow site around them gets replaced. Most sites we are asked to fix are not badly written, they are just built on something heavy that takes five seconds to load on a phone.

Do you only work with businesses in Fayetteville?

No. We are based in Fayetteville, NC and happy to meet in person anywhere nearby — Fort Bragg, Hope Mills, Spring Lake, Raeford. Web design works fine remotely, though, and plenty of clients are nowhere near North Carolina.

How do I pay you?

Venmo or Zelle, arranged over email once you approve the quote. Fifty percent to start and the balance when the site goes live. You get a written quote with the fixed price before anything is due, and a receipt for each payment. There is no card form on this site — nothing about your payment details ever passes through the website.

What do you need from me to get started?

A description of what your business does, whatever photos and text you already have, and a 50% deposit. If you do not have copy written, we can help with that. Send the form and you get a written quote with a fixed price and a delivery date, usually within one business day.

Start a project

Tell us what your business does.

No pitch deck, no discovery fee. Send the form and you get a written quote with a fixed price and a delivery date — usually within one business day.

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Fayetteville, NC · Remote nationwide

Starting prices for planning purposes. Every project receives a customized quote. No rankings, traffic, or sales guaranteed.