It’s been just over a month since I launched the new website for my parish – St Ann’s & St Stephen’s – and I start to think “what’s next”.

It was a labour of love to create the St Ann’s & St Stephen’s site. And now that it’s done, I did wonder if I should offer my website design and technical skills to other churches in Ireland.

I’m not a professional web designer, but I have built a lot of WordPress sites for personal projects. I have a full time job working in technology for a large multinational company, so I can’t dedicate my working week towards it. But I would like to take on additional projects that I could tackle in my free time on evenings and weekends – what people today refer to as a ‘side hustle’.

So I put together this little site to begin offering my services.

I have thought long and hard about what to charge. And I fully appreciate that many churches don’t have extensive budgets to pay for things like websites. But at the same time, it is a time investment on my part to build the site, and so it only seems fair to charge a reasonable sum.

I settled on a fixed fee of €800 to build a website, and another €200 per year to host it. In comparison to a lot of other web developers out there it doesn’t seem unreasonable. And hopefully by quoting a fixed fee it will help parishes to budget with certainty.