From Basel, Weblio builds websites for Konstanz firms whose customers come from two countries. Fixed price, and the site is built to German law.
One price from CHF 499, no later additions
From the station to the Münsterplatz is five minutes on foot, to the Kreuzlinger Tor at the Swiss border under ten. Across the Alte Rheinbrücke to the northern bank takes a good quarter of an hour. Your regulars live inside that circle, and inside it park the people who come across the border to shop.
Some of the passing trade is here once and never again, some of it comes over every week. Both decide on a phone, and both want the same three things first: open until when, where to park, what it costs. The phone number belongs on the page with the country code, otherwise nobody dials it from a Swiss network.
Advising across the border means fielding questions out of two legal and social systems. The page has to draw a clean line between what applies to whom and where your remit ends. An appointment that can be booked without a callback saves the most here: for a good share of these people, the way to you is a border crossing.
The service area is the most important line on the whole page, because a few kilometres out it either stops at a national border or explicitly does not. Anyone working beyond it should say so at the top, not in a footnote. After that it comes down to photographs of finished work and an honest note on when the next slot is free.
Bookings are made weeks ahead and often in English, but they are settled by the pictures and by the journey. Say early how long the bus or the boat takes into the old town and whether parking is included. And one more thing: Mainau island belongs to the city, Reichenau does not. Guests mix the two up constantly, and your page must not.
Around the university and the HTWG you will find cheap offers, and just past the customs post a different market begins, with different approaches and different rates. What we are the wrong supplier for, we would rather say beforehand. What is left after that are these three points, and with us they are in writing.
The way from question to answer is short
What you ask does not travel through a client desk, a concept round and an internal alignment first. The reply comes out of the same file the site is being built in, and on working days it comes within a day. That is the difference you actually notice from week to week.
Two audiences, one site, nothing doubled
Part of your custom is German, part of it Swiss, and both are meant to understand the same page. Public holidays do not fall on the same dates on either side, Sunday is a story of its own, and directions that only work from the north are no help to half your guests. We work from the other side of that border ourselves and do not miss those spots.
It has to be found in both countries
Someone searching in Kreuzlingen does not get the same list as someone in Wollmatingen; the searcher's location changes the order. So we set titles, address data and structured data up for both sides of the border, not only for the German search. That sits inside the fixed price and is not an extra package.
By train the route runs via Schaffhausen and Singen or via Zurich, as a rule with one change. By car it is a good two hours. That journey is seldom required. What actually moves between us is approvals, image material and interim versions: the dashboard and the tickets carry that, short questions go through WhatsApp, and the rest is settled on video. What the border does change is the invoice and the legal frame.
CHF 499 for the Onepager, CHF 699 for the Starter, CHF 1'099 for the Business package. Anything not inside those three packages gets its own line with its own amount before you agree. The figure in the offer is the figure on the invoice.
GDPR, the duty to publish an imprint and the accessibility rules follow German law, however short the walk to the border is. The fact that part of your custom travels in from Thurgau changes nothing about that. What applies in your case belongs settled before the start, and the binding check belongs with a law firm.
Your site, the mailboxes and the backups live on European servers. For you as the controller that means no transfer to a third country you would have to justify under the GDPR, and no additional safeguards for anyone to review. You get the data processing agreement before the site goes online, so it can move into your record of processing activities.
Germany's accessibility legislation took effect on 28 June 2025. It covers many offerings aimed at consumers; micro-enterprises providing services are exempt. In practice that means readable contrast, operation without a mouse, real labels on form fields. We build that way anyway. For cookies and comparable access to the device, section 25 TDDDG still applies: without consent, only what is technically necessary runs.
In Konstanz the national border runs straight through your audience. One site carries both sides of it, and you maintain nothing twice.
How we work
Whatever is missing here we will answer by email. Nobody here answers from a sales inbox.
What amount should we reckon with in Konstanz?
Three packages, each carrying an amount that does not move afterwards: CHF 499 for a onepager, CHF 699 for up to three pages, CHF 1'099 for up to five pages. If you also want booking, a shop, a second language or a newsletter, the surcharge for it is shown separately. You have that list before you agree. Invoicing is in euros, by bank transfer.
Do you get on a train to Konstanz for a meeting?
For a project start and for handover, yes. The first call, on the other hand, runs on video, stays short and saves you half a day. For single follow-up questions we stay on screen too: anyone travelling two hours for every question has to price that journey in somewhere, and we would rather not price it in at all.
Half our customers come from Switzerland. What do we have to watch on the site?
Four things that are almost always missing: the phone number with +49 in front of it, so it can be dialled from a Swiss network at all; the address with a country code, so navigation finds it; opening hours that mark German public holidays as such; and directions that start at the border rather than at the motorway. You do not need a second language version for any of that, Thurgau is German-speaking.
Is an English version worth it for us?
That depends on your guests, not on the town sign. A house on the shore or a day-trip business sells to people who search in English beforehand; a workshop in Wollmatingen mostly does not. Bilingual with us means: one address, one set of texts and one set of titles per language. A switch that machine-translates the German page is not part of it. That too is an extra with its own amount in the offer.
Our business is out in the district. Is that a problem?
No. The Landkreis Konstanz stretches from the Hegau to the Höri: Radolfzell, Singen, Stockach, Engen, Allensbach, Reichenau, Gottmadingen, Rielasingen-Worblingen, Hilzingen, Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Gaienhofen and Öhningen are all within the catchment area. So is Büsingen am Hochrhein, a German municipality completely surrounded by Swiss territory. The postcode changes nothing about how we work together.
Why not someone from here, or straight from Kreuzlingen?
A fair question in a town with two campuses and a Swiss market on the doorstep. If you need someone standing in the shop the moment something jams, you are better served locally. Ours is a different offer: a price fixed before the start, one contact instead of an inbox, and a site laid out for both sides of the border. Ask to see both and look at more than the total.
A video call in German or English, after which your offer with a fixed price in euros is ready. No obligation, and we do not come back a second time unasked.
