For any Lagos business holding a website quote they cannot evaluate
9 questions every Lagos WEB DESIGNER hopes you will not ask.
Answer them about whoever is quoting you and find out in four minutes how exposed you are, before a single naira moves. Free, no sign-up to start, and useful whoever you end up hiring.
Nine questions. Your answers stay in your browser until you ask for the written version.
Here is what the nine questions get at
- Question 1 decides whether you own your own website address, and most people have never thought to ask it.
- Question 3 is why some businesses pay twice for the same site, from zero, with nothing carried over.
- Question 4 is the single most common reason a build stalls for three months at eighty percent done.
- Question 5 exposes why "unlimited revisions" is not generous, it just means the limit has not been told to you.
- Question 6 is where the ₦250,000 quote quietly becomes the expensive one by about month eight.
- Question 8 is a recurring bill wearing a friendly face, and it is almost never in the quote.
Why this exists
Most website money in Lagos is lost before a line of code is written
It goes at the moment of paying a deposit to somebody who has not yet said, in writing, what they are building, whose name it goes in, and what happens if they stop answering. By the time any of that becomes a problem the money is gone and the leverage with it.
Then the replies slow down. Then they stop. Maybe a site eventually arrives. It looks acceptable on a laptop, the menu will not close on a phone, the prices cannot be changed without calling somebody, and the hosting sits on an account under an email address nobody has.
This is not a rare outcome here.
Reading about it changes nothing. Asking nine specific questions, and knowing which answers should worry you, changes the outcome entirely. That is all this is.
The scorecard
Score the quote in front of you
Nine questions, three answers each, about four minutes. Answer for whoever is quoting you right now. If you have not asked them yet, answer as though you have not, because that is the real position.
Whose name will the domain be registered in?
The highest-stakes answer on the list, and the one almost nobody asks. If the domain sits in their name, your web address is theirs, and getting it back becomes a negotiation.
What you walk away with
- A number you can act on tonight, rather than a vague unease about a quote you cannot read.
- Nine questions you can send in a single WhatsApp message, none of which require you to understand code.
- The wording for each one, so the answers arrive in writing instead of in a phone call you cannot refer back to.
- A way to compare two quotes on something other than the number at the bottom.
- A screenshot you can send your business partner that explains, in one image, why you want to wait a week.
The nine, in order
Who wrote it
A Lagos web designer, against his own interest
Nnamdi Awurumibe builds websites in Lagos and the diaspora, and publishes his prices, which is unusual in this trade. Several of the nine questions cost him money when a client asks them properly, and they are here anyway.
- Seven years across web design, search and paid media.
- Digital Advertising Consultant at Meta, covering Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Certified on Meta and Google Ads.
- Prices published openly at thelagoswebsitedesigner.com.
From people who have been through the build
Nnamdi helped build my company's website. The delivery was prompt and the website was perfectly done. He is patient and awesome at what he does. He comes highly recommended anytime.
Working with Nnamdi is like having a world-class digital team on your payroll, without the overhead.
The written version
Everything above, in your inbox, for nothing
The score is yours on the page whether or not you give an email. This is the part you keep, forward, and hold a developer to.
| Your score and every answer you gave So the position is recorded rather than remembered. | Free |
| The nine questions, written out to send Copy, paste, send. No rewriting required. | Free |
| What a good answer sounds like, for each And the specific answer that should make you walk. | Free |
| The after-launch cost list Six charges that start after the site goes live, and the month each begins. | Free |
| A one-page quote comparison sheet For putting two quotes side by side on something other than the total. | Free |
| Total | Still free |
Where should it go?
Name and email. That is the whole form.
The One Email Promise
Your breakdown arrives in one email. There is no five-part sequence behind it, no daily follow-up, and nothing is sold to you in the meantime. If you want to hear from me again you will have to ask, and if you never do, you still keep everything above.
Straight answers
Is this a disguised sales pitch?
The scorecard runs without an email address and gives you the full result on the page. The written version costs one email and arrives once. If you want a website built afterwards, the prices are published openly rather than quoted on a call, which is the opposite of how a pitch works.
I have already paid a deposit. Is it useless to me?
No. Questions 1, 2, 6 and 8 are worth asking at any stage, and the earlier in a build you ask them the easier they are to fix. Question 1 in particular is worth checking today regardless of how far along you are.
My developer is a friend or a relative. Does this still apply?
It applies more. The projects that go worst are usually the ones where nobody wanted to seem distrustful by asking, and the relationship takes the damage alongside the money.
What if my developer answers all nine well?
Then you have found a good one and the scorecard has done its job. Get the answers into the written agreement rather than the chat thread and go ahead.
Do my answers get sent anywhere?
Not unless you ask for the written version. The scoring happens in your own browser.
P.S. The expensive mistake is almost never hiring the wrong designer. It is paying before anybody has written down what is being built, who owns it, and what happens if it goes quiet. Four minutes now settles all three. Score the quote, then decide.
P.P.S. If you do only one thing from this page, ask question one. Whose name is the domain going in. The answer takes ten seconds to give and it is the hardest thing on the list to undo once the money has moved.