The alternative to expensive custom websites
Having a custom website built feels like the right choice at first. You get exactly what you ask for, nicely finished, entirely yours. Until, six months later, you want to change a phone number and have to open a ticket with your builder for it. And until the invoice for that one hour of work lands in your mailbox.
Many organisations are stuck there. Not because the site is bad, but because they depend on someone else for every small change. That costs money, and above all it costs time.
Where custom work goes wrong
Three things keep coming back:
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Every change goes through your supplier. A new page, a price that changes, replacing a photo: it seems small, but you cannot do it yourself.
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The costs do not stop at delivery. Maintenance, small changes, an update here and there. It adds up.
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You are tied to one party. If you want to leave, you often start from scratch, because the site is built entirely around them.
On the other side you have the bare website builders. Cheap, and you do everything yourself, but you quickly hit the limits as soon as you want just a bit more than a few pages.
What Livalos does differently
Livalos deliberately sits in between. You manage your site yourself in your browser, without a line of code, with the strength of Drupal underneath. No queue for every change, no developer needed for a text you want to change.
You work with sections and blocks. You choose a section, fill it with text, an image or a button, and arrange it the way you want. It is not a blank canvas where you place every pixel freely, and that is exactly the point: your site keeps looking professional and consistent, even if you are not a designer yourself.
And because it is a platform and not a one-off custom project, it grows with you. Do you later need online registrations for an event, a webshop with online payments, or newsletters? That is already there in the same environment. No second supplier, no separate tools you have to tie together.
The sums
With custom work you pay a lot up front and then keep paying for every change. With Livalos you pay a fixed price: the Livalos Platform with the website app costs EUR 35 per month, billed annually and excluding VAT. You do the day-to-day management yourself. The difference is not only in the price, but in who is at the wheel. You manage it, we make sure it keeps working.
Who this is right for
For organisations that want a professional site without their own IT team, and that are tired of having to wait and pay for every small change. Small businesses, freelancers, local governments, and growing organisations that need more than just a site.
Want to see what that looks like for you? Book a demo and I will show you on a real site.