You run small business and have tight budget, and can not afford what web design companies quote, then what do to? The solution is to find somebody who work as freelance at home, this is good just because freelance person's prices will be much more lower than design studios, cause freelance designer doesn't have expenses on office rent, employee salary, and some texes too.
Morever freelance web designers usually work at home, and their schedule is not from 9 to 5, so they can be reached most of time on internet, and this let you communicate with him/her often than web design studios representant.

But despite of you have small business you have to have nice website, which will show your business on the internet, at least you should prepare pages like,

• Home
• About (Corporate)
• Services
• Products
• Events
• Contacts

Firslty prepare your business plan,  website structure, pages content, find some relative graphics. So in time you got designer, you don't spend time on this stuff, and designer can start his work immidiatly after you agreement done.

The are a lot of small business website over the internet, maybe billions, some of them look neat, some not. Nice website is important key in your beginning business. So don't only think about how much you will spend to have your website developed, your website development must be in right hands.