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Small Business Web Site Design:
Cost of a Web Site: Click under the portfolio
images on the main page for the specific cost of each site
Now there's the sixty-four dollar question. It is very difficult
to find costs for web design. I have noticed in my research on the
'Net, that no one seems to want to give out that information. Sometimes,
if you fill out a form describing what you want in general, someone
will eventually email you with an estimate for accessible web site
design. I decided that since that bothers me, it probably bothers
a potential client researching the pricing for a web site design.
My question is, why not skip that step of waiting for someone to
get back to you. Which is why I decided I would give the value of
the custom web sites I have presented in my portfolio. Since few
people are going to want exactly the same site as any I have already
done, then that value is only an approximate one. But it does give
interested parties a rough estimate of what they are looking at
in terms of web site design costs without having to contact me first.
It's impossible to set the price of custom web site design
in stone. Each site is different, with different objectives, requiring
different elements and different timelines. So cost is going to
vary. Which is the main reason most web site designers are reluctant
to post their pricing. With good reason. There are just too many
variables.
I may not charge as much for a web design where I am given 'carte
blanche' or free rein, versus one with a rigid structure that I'm
forced to work within. Images that are all the same size already
on a disk such as those taken by a digital camera take me much less
time to work with than the standard photos that I must scan in or
rework to improve quality, color or match consistency with other
photos.
If you have a clear objective for your web site...and I don't
mean web design...I mean clear goal, then that is going to make
my job easier and go faster. Because if I know the end result you
expect from your web site, I can reach it faster. If you change
the logo design of your business midstream, after I have
spent many hours designing
something for your web site, (which happened to me. It
cost me a great deal of time, and time is money, which is why it
is being used as an example here) then it's going to cost you
more.
If you already have a web site in place but are not happy
with it, it may cost you less if some of the material on your present
site is salvageable. If you have no web page, but you already have
a business logo on disk, and brochure information,
and images on disk, then your web site is not going
to cost you very much at all. Because a lot of prep work will already
have been done. There are a lot more variables than this but you
get the general idea.
The hourly cost for original web site design
is $20 per hour but I give honest hours. In other words, you may
get three hours of work for the one hour I charge you just because
I may want to experiment with the design or colors on my own time.
I do a lot of graphic design work for my own business, and quite
often I will fool with the graphics on your site but at my cost,
not yours if it's my own idea. If I have in mind something special
that I want to do but don't know how to do it, I will not be charging
you for the research or the time learning to do it. Only for the
implementation. If you have in mind something special that you want
done, and I don't know how to do it, I may research it on my time
to let you know what it is going to cost you, for me to learn how
to implement the idea and so on.
I offer professional flash web site design
as well as web design in html and make good use of Javascript and
Applets. I believe I offer exceptionally low cost web design that
packs a lot of punch. I like to work closely with my clients to
make sure they are getting exactly what they asked for.
And if you don't
like the web design I produced for you? You don't
pay for the site. At all...in any way, shape or form.
The following are links to the pages
giving costs for specific web sites in the portfolio:
The Country Inn Motel
The Dean on Nimpo
Wilderness Rim Resort
Serenity Spa Therapeutics
Kinesionics
Therapy
West Chilcotin Forest Products
Vagabond RV Park
Chilcotin's Gate
Restaurant
Resorts BC
Northern Carving
HHW Whitetails
True Legends
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