A standard corporate website takes 6–10 weeks when everything arrives on time. That range depends far less on design complexity than on how quickly decisions and content get settled.
How the process runs
1. Discovery (3–5 days). We talk through what the business does, who it speaks to and what the site has to accomplish. The output of this stage is not a design but a scope: how many pages, which functions, which languages.
2. Strategy and structure (1–2 weeks). Sitemap, content skeleton and priority order. This is where we decide what the visitor sees, and in what sequence. Projects that skip this stage lose the time later, in design rounds.
3. Design (2–3 weeks). First the homepage and one inner page; the remaining templates follow approval. Settling the visual language before designing every page noticeably reduces the number of revisions.
4. Development (2–3 weeks). Turning design into code, setting up the admin panel, loading content. Mobile behaviour and page speed are tested at this stage, not afterwards.
5. Testing and launch (3–5 days). Forms, multilingual behaviour, search visibility and browser compatibility are checked. Going live is planned together with domain and email settings.
What actually stretches the schedule
In our experience the cause is almost never design or code. Two reasons dominate:
Late content. The project stalls while text and images are awaited. The most practical prevention is to draw up the content list during discovery and put in writing who delivers what, and when.
Scattered feedback. Conflicting comments arriving from different people at different times can turn one revision round into three. Naming a single decision-maker and sending feedback in one batch is the habit that protects a timeline most.
What shortens it
Content ready in advance; a clear decision-maker; scope fixed at the start. By contrast, a "we'll figure it out as we go" approach can double the schedule even with the best team.
Cases that take longer
E-commerce, membership systems, booking flows or multilingual structure all widen the scope. A four-language platform, for instance, requires more than translation of the same design: URL structure, language switching and content management all need extra planning.
We meet this often with businesses operating in Cyprus: in healthcare, tourism and education a large share of visitors arrive from abroad, so multiple languages become a scope item to account for from the very beginning.
Can it be done faster?
A one-page introduction site or a campaign-specific landing page can go live in one to two weeks. It does not replace a full corporate site, but it bridges an urgent launch; the remaining pages are then added on the same foundation.
In short: 6–10 weeks is a realistic range, but that range depends far more on how quickly decisions and content are settled than on how fast we work.