Web Design Services, From Sitemap to Developer Handover
Sitemaps, wireframes, responsive screens and a design system for your website, ending in a handover your developer can build from. You own the domain, the hosting and the files.
Website design, from sitemap to handover
I design your site: the sitemap, the wireframes, the screens at phone, tablet and desktop widths, and the design system your developer builds from. Structure is settled before colour, so each round of changes is about one thing at a time.
This page covers design. The build starts from the handover, whether your own developer does it or I do it through my web development service.
The design work, end to end
Sitemap and structure
Which pages the site needs, how they connect and what each one is for, agreed before any screens are drawn.
Wireframes
The layout of each page without colour or imagery, so content and structure are settled first.
Visual design
Final screens at phone, tablet and desktop widths, in your brand.
A design system
Colours, type styles and components, so new pages look like the rest of the site.
Accessible contrast
Text checked against WCAG 2.2’s minimum contrast of 4.5:1, or 3:1 for large text.
Developer handover
Specs, assets and notes your developer needs to build the site without guessing.
What stays with you
The question to settle before any website project is who owns what once it is finished. My answer: you do. Never me.
The domain
Registered to you. ICANN’s registrant benefits and responsibilities set out what the person or business a domain is registered to is entitled to, including information on managing and transferring it.
The hosting account
In your name, never mine.
The design files
Handed over in full when the work is paid for, in your design tool account or as exported files.
Licensed fonts and images
Bought or licensed in your name, so the licence stays with the site.
Site access
Design needs no access to the live site. For a review inside WordPress, an Editor account is enough; Administrator is not needed.
Six weeks from brief to handover
Brief and sitemap
Your business, brand, goals and the site you have now, then the sitemap for your approval.
Wireframes
Page layouts without colour, then a round of changes.
Visual design
Final screens and the design system, then a round of changes.
Handover
Specs, assets and notes for the build.
Three ways to start
My prices are the market rate. Clutch puts web design companies at around $100 to $149 an hour. At the $124.50 midpoint and 19 hours a month, that is $2,365.50, rounded to $2,350 a month. Fixed engagements are the unrounded $2,365.50 pro rata: 2 weeks is $1,092.61, rounded to $1,100, and 6 weeks is $3,277.83, rounded to $3,300.
Landing page design
One page designed for a campaign or a launch, at phone, tablet and desktop widths, ready for your developer.
- Page structure and wireframe
- Visual design at three widths
- A round of changes at each stage
- Developer handover with specs and assets
Website design
A site designed from sitemap to final screens, with the design system your developer builds from.
- Sitemap and page wireframes
- Visual design at phone, tablet and desktop widths
- Design system: colours, type and components
- Text contrast checked against WCAG 2.2
- A round of changes at each stage
- Developer handover with specs and assets
Monthly design support
New pages, landing pages and changes for your site, designed in its existing system.
- New page and landing page designs
- Changes to existing pages
- Design system kept up to date
- Handover for each piece of work
Market rate from Clutch’s web design pricing page, read on 10 November 2026. Builds, hosting, domains and licensed fonts or images are not included. Agencies can resell the same work at half these prices through white-label web design.
FAQ
Get a site designed that your developer can build without guessing.
I have 3 client slots open for Q4 2026. Tell me about your business, the site you have now and what it needs to do, and I will tell you which option fits.
Useful before you decide
Writing and tools for planning a site.