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BazSite or a freelance web designer

In short

A good freelancer gives you personal attention and a unique design, but usually costs thousands up front, takes weeks, and every change afterwards costs money. With BazSite there's nothing to pay for the build, the website is ready fast, and you make changes yourself or in plain words.

Start 30 days freePlans and pricing

No credit card · then from $12 a month, hosting and VAT included

What you get from a freelancer

A good web designer gets to know you, suggests ideas and designs something unique. That's worth a lot to a business that needs special branding or complex features. The downsides are familiar: a high price up front, waiting time, and depending on them for even the smallest change.

FreelancerBazSite
Payment up frontUsually thousandsNone, 30 days free and then a plan
Time until the website is liveUsually weeksDepends mostly on how fast you approve
Writing the contentUsually you, or extraThe system writes it
Changes after launchPaid and scheduledYourself, or in plain words
Hosting, backups, monitoringSometimes, for a yearly feeIncluded
DesignCompletely uniqueBuilt for your business, within a system

When a freelancer is the better choice

  • You need completely unique branding and design.
  • You have special requirements: a complex booking system, connections to internal systems.
  • Personal guidance from one person all the way matters to you.

When BazSite is the better choice

  • You need a professional business website, fast and without a big expense up front.
  • You want to update the website yourself, without waiting for anyone.
  • You want the SEO and the content to keep going after launch.

Are you a web designer?

BazSite also lets agencies and web designers open accounts for clients and build their websites from one system. That way you can take on more small clients without adding hours of work.

Want someone to build it for you, without a freelancer's price?

The BazSite team builds the website for you for $299 one-time, VAT included. The build follows the information you give us, in a questionnaire or a call, and includes planning, keyword research, content and 3 home page designs to choose from. There are no unlimited designs and no work from a Figma file, which is why the price is low. Changes after launch you make yourself, or with the team's hours at $75 an hour. All the details are on We build it for you.

Built into BazSite, no plugins

In WordPress, Wix and Shopify most of these take plugins or apps, each with its own settings, updates and fees, and most only work when someone runs them by hand. In BazSite they're part of the system, included in the plan and run on their own.

SEO analysis and one-click fixes On plans with SEO

An SEO score for every page and article, and with "Help me fix it" the AI writes the fixes themselves: the Google title and description, a missing paragraph, questions and answers. You approve each suggestion with a click.

In WordPress: An SEO plugin (like Yoast or Rank Math) that gives a score, and you write the fixes yourself.

Descriptions (alt text) for every image On plans with SEO

The system shows which images on the website are missing a description, and with one click the AI looks at each image and writes its description in the website's language, for Google and for blind visitors.

In WordPress: Writing them by hand, image after image, or yet another plugin.

Change text in plain words

Write "shorten the About page and add the opening hours", and see before and after for every part of the page. It works on the whole website at once too, and nothing goes live without your approval.

In WordPress: Editing by hand in the block editor or a page builder.

Change the design in plain words

Write "rounder buttons and dark blue headings", and see the page before and after, on desktop and on a phone, before you approve.

In WordPress: CSS code, theme settings or a page builder.

Ready for AI search (GEO)

Every website is open to the crawlers of ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, with an llms.txt file that sums up for them who the business is, how to reach it and what's on the website, and with structured data about the business, its questions and answers and its articles. Every new article opens with a direct answer, exactly what AI engines quote.

In WordPress: An SEO plugin (like Yoast) for structured data and llms.txt, and setting it up.

New articles every month On plans with SEO

The system picks topics from keywords that aren't on Google's first page yet, writes the articles and sends them to you for approval, or publishes on its own if you chose that.

In WordPress: Writing by hand, or an AI plugin that writes an article when asked, with no link to your Google rankings.

Built-in catalogs Depending on the plan

Listings for a realtor, treatments for a clinic, memberships for a gym: your own fields, a page for every item, a list with filters and a map. Adding an item is like filling in a form.

In WordPress: A content type with ACF or Pods, a loop built in Elementor and a filter plugin, each needing setup and updates.

A weekly website check-up

Once a week the system goes over the website and emails you about broken links, heavy images, pages without a Google title and a contact form that doesn't work.

In WordPress: A plugin or an outside monitoring service.

Accessibility check

The system goes over every page of the website against the accessibility standard (WCAG 2.1 AA) and shows what to fix: images without a description, colors without enough contrast, fields without a label and more. A color that fails is fixed with a click. Every website includes an accessibility statement.

In WordPress: An accessibility plugin or an outside scanner.

The full comparison: what's built into BazSite and what needs a plugin elsewhere →

FAQ

How much does a freelance web designer cost?

Prices vary a lot with experience and scope: from a few thousand for a simple brochure website up to tens of thousands for a complex project, usually plus hosting and maintenance.

Can we combine them, and have a web designer work through BazSite?

Yes. Agencies and web designers can open accounts for their clients and manage all the websites from one place.

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