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Web design in Hasselt

Web design in Hasselt with VBS: a VBS colleague working on a laptop in our office

1,500

euros, where a custom website starts with us

Affordable, to us, means you know up front what you get and what it costs.

People in Hasselt ask about the price first

Type 'webdesign hasselt' in Google and it suggests 'betaalbaar webdesign hasselt', affordable web design. That says a lot. For many business owners, web design in Hasselt starts with a question they ask elsewhere only at the end: what will this cost, and am I not paying too much? This page gives an honest answer, with the prices the market asks, the parts that make a site more or less expensive, and what you can do yourself to keep the bill small without ending up with a site nobody finds.

It is written for people who run a business in Hasselt in English: researchers who started a company at Corda, an expat who opened a practice near the hospital, a foreign brand with a shop in the Demerstraat. Hasselt has 90,914 residents and is the capital of Belgian Limburg. At the end of 2025, 12,052 companies had their seat in the city; 1,072 started in 2025. With Corda Campus, home to more than 250 companies, Hasselt University with 8,410 students, Jessa Hospital and the shopping streets around the Demerstraat, it is a city of services, care and retail.

Companies in Hasselt, end of 2025Number
Professional and technical services3,143
Retail and car repair1,602
Construction1,333
Information and communication807
Care and welfare762
Other services742

What a site costs on the market, step by step

  • One-pagerone page, contact, hours500 to 1,500

  • Company sitea page per service, a form2,000 to 6,000

  • Online shopproducts, payment, shipping4,000 to 15,000+

  • Maintenanceper year, updates and backups200 to 1,000

  • Custom site at VBSfixed price per projectfrom 1,500

euros, excluding VAT

After a first meeting VBS gives you a fixed price per project, with what is in and what is not.

Where the price of a site comes from

A site is not priced per page or per hour like bread by the kilo. What it has to do sets what you pay. Five things decide almost everything:

WhatMakes the site more expensive ifKeeps the price low if
Number of pagesevery service gets its own written pageyou start with a strong one-pager
Copywe write it and tune it to search termsyou supply it yourself
Languagesa Dutch, French or English version comes on topyou start in one language
Featuresbookings, payments or a calculator are in ita form and a phone number are enough
Picturesa shoot of your business and team is neededyou have good photos of your own

You pay the top of each range for custom work that grows your business, the bottom for a site that mostly exists. What a quote should list is in compare website quotes; the full price explanation is in website cost.

Which language, if you work in English

If English is your working language, the cheapest mistake to avoid is building only in English. Most of Hasselt searches in Dutch.

Your customersStart withAdd later
Households and shops in Hasselt and LimburgDutchEnglish for expats and students
University, hospital and Corda staffEnglishDutch for the local market
Companies across the EuregioEnglish and DutchGerman or French if buyers ask
Dutch visitors from MaastrichtDutch, in their own words if prices or terms differa separate version only when needed

Each extra language is mostly writing work plus its own titles and forms, so it is the part of the price you control best. In every language a Belgian site shows the company name, address, company number and email; see company number on your website.

What affordable web design must not mean

  • No ownershipA site on the builder's platform, where you take nothing with you when you leave, is cheap until you want to go. Ask whether the domain is in your name and whether you get the files.
  • A subscription without endA low monthly price looks affordable, but after four years you have often paid more than for a custom site. Do the sum in website cost per year.
  • A template with your logoGoogle sees a hundred sites with the same structure and the same copy. Whoever uses the same words as everyone else does not stand out.
  • No time for findabilityA site nobody finds always costs too much. Test your current site with the website not showing on Google check and the website speed test.

What you can do yourself to lower the bill

  1. Write your copy in rough form. We rewrite it, but explaining your trade in your own words saves the most expensive part of the work. English is fine; we write the Dutch pages from it.
  2. Start small and grow. A strong one-pager now, a page per service once the first clients come through Google.
  3. Create your Google Business Profile yourself. It costs nothing and someone in Hasselt often sees it before your site; create a Google Business Profile says how.
  4. Choose consciously between building and hiring. With Wix or WordPress you can put up a first site yourself. When that is smart and when not is in build your website yourself or hire someone and Wix or WordPress.

For freelancers with a small business there is more in web design for freelancers.

Three Hasselt businesses, three budgets

  1. A shop in the Demerstraat

    Hours, range, route and a Google profile with good photos. A strong one-pager or a small site is enough; an online shop only if you really want to sell online.

  2. A company on Corda Campus

    Cases, services, vacancies, often in English too. A company site with a page per service, and a second language if you work internationally.

  3. A practice near Jessa

    A page per treatment and a booking module. The advertising rules of your profession decide what you may say; what is allowed is on website for therapists.

How long a site lasts

A custom site lasts for years if it is maintained. So count not only the build in your budget, but also what it costs per year: a domain and hosting, updates and small changes. Whoever takes a cheap site that has to be redone after two years ends up paying more than whoever builds well once. What that means per year is in website cost per year.

The price at VBS

We name only one amount up front: custom work starts at 1,500 euros. Everything above depends on what your site has to do, and we settle that together in the first meeting. Then the price for the project is on paper and no hours are added. If you first want to add up the parts yourself, use the website cost calculator.

For a practice, website for therapists says what is and is not allowed. For an office or lawyer, see website for law firms and website for accountants.

A good hour and a half from Ghent, and still close

From the Sint-Baafsplein to Hasselt is 136 kilometres, a good hour and a half by car and almost two hours by train. So most of it runs online: a video call to begin, in English or Dutch, then a test address where you see the site grow and comment per page. A photo day at your business we plan together.

In Limburg we have not worked for anyone yet. What we show is work that runs the same way: more than 1,700 pages live for our clients, the site of Business Centrum that appeared 46 times as often in Google within five weeks, and the cost calculator of SN Group that gives visitors a price themselves. Our way of working is at website design; for the marketing side see our marketing agency in Hasselt, and for the rest of the province web design in Limburg.

Hasselt questions on price and approach

What does an affordable website cost in Hasselt?
Ask around in Hasselt and you usually hear 500 to 1,500 euros for a single page and 2,000 to 6,000 euros for a site with a page per service, excluding VAT. Our custom work starts at 1,500 euros, and after the first meeting you get a fixed price for the project.
Is a cheap site of a few hundred euros a bad choice?
Not always. For someone just starting who works mostly by word of mouth, it can be enough. Do watch ownership of your domain and files, and what the subscription costs over four years.
How long does it take?
A single page is often ready in two to three weeks, a small-business site with several services in four to eight weeks. How fast your copy and choices arrive weighs more than the build itself.
Can I brief and approve everything in English?
Yes. Meetings, the quote and the test site comments can all be in English; we write the Dutch pages your customers read and show you an English version next to them.
Do you have to come to Hasselt?
Not for every meeting. We work remotely with a test address, and come over for photos or if you prefer the first meeting on site.

Website design

How VBS helps you with this

We build your site from design to copy, imagery and code, in one team, so that Google and your buyers find it and get in touch.

  • Design and copy built on your buyers' questions
  • Fast, multilingual when you need it, at a fixed price
  • Forms, cookieless analytics and hosting on AWS

How we approach it is on our page about Website design.

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