Website Design Pricing
Your website should reflect your business and your visions
Creation of your new Web site is from start to finish, a professional look that is the same across all the pages. Assurance of correct viewing regardless of which browsers your customers are using.
*Included for new website designs and site re-works:
* First years Hosting and Domain fees (New design only, if client has none)
* Graphics design, buttons, menus and layouts for uniform page appearance throughout the web site
* Initial Research of keyword and meta tag structure
* Your existing/new company logo throughout
* Linking the web pages together
* Writing the content for each page (if applicable)
* Scanning your photos, sizing them, and optimizing them for downloading
* Customizing the graphics and editing the photos for optimum downloading
are the most time-consuming parts of the work. A site that is graphics-intensive
costs more per page than a text-oriented site.
* Building the technically correct HTML code for each page, or css and xhtml validation to give
the same perfect appearance in which ever browsers your customers are
using
* Initial submission of your site to the search engines
Price is Based on size and complexity of project.
Website Design and Pricing details
Use the On-Line Site Estimator
Web Site Design: **First or Primary Page of Design - $400.00
This covers the first year hosting package, design and your layout, colors, logo, and flow or navigation of your website. It also covers the search engine research and all meta tag and keyword research coding, submission of your website.
**Additional Page Cost - $35.00 and higher, Why?
Some pages simply do not take as long to design and therefore would be discounted to pricing that could be as little as $50-$75 per page, while other pages may be priced at closer to $100 or more.
**Once we receive your website request form we can communicate with you to work a strong estimate price to fit your budget.
You can get an immediate online estimate of the cost of your website here.
The VAST majority of time involved in the process of designing a website is in designing THE FIRST page, otherwise known as the index page, the concept, layout, and the all-important search engine research and coding. The initial look, flow and feel of the FRONT PAGE can often take eight-to-twelve hours or more to create, while subsequent pages can take as little as two hours, adding in the supportive, polished images and handling of the subsequent subject matter search engine coding.
Most web design companies charge by the hour and we believe that promotes slow work! Also, a designer can tell you that they took 20 hours to design something that actually only took 10 hours.
Our pricing is fair, based on industry standards and the fact that we will work closely with you to ensure your satisfaction.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
To make sure that you are comfortable with your internet experience, we have detailed what's needed to get started in 5 simple steps.
1. You need a DOMAIN NAME. This is your web address (www.whatever.com). We recommend that you have us (or the web design company of your choice) register your name for you. Yes, you can do it...but we can save you money and handle the DNS (technical) setup to "point the name" to whatever website we design for you. Additionally, too many people forget about this once a year bill and can potentially lose their name. Having us handle it makes sense - we will register it in your name and set it up on the servers.
Initial Setup: Free with new Web Design
Cost: depends on the domain registration company you choose.
2. Someone must build your site.
3. Hosting. Someone must host your domain name and data to display the website so that whoever types in your address or finds your link in the search engines will see the website.
Hosting Company for your web site:
We recommend IPOWER. Go to: http://ipower.com/ and take your time and read what they have to offer. We use Ipower because of their uncompromising customer support and professionalism not to mention their package prices.
Know also that we are very familiar with many of the reputable major and minor hosting companies and can work closley with them on your behalf.
4. Search Engine Optimization.
We will code and submit your site manually, if required, to the major search engines including DMOZ.
5. E-COMMERCE, ONLINE STORES, AND SHOPPING CARTS
A great deal of work must go into this portion of your
business,
not only for looks and ease of operation for your customers but for
security of the transactions by your customer. In choosing a merchant
account we recommend you thoroughly investigate the many providers and
package options available. Remember that most merchants charge monthly
fees as well as percentage fees for transactions.
Type in "online merchant account review" in your browser and study
some of the merchants and what they offer.
In e-commerce web design, online stores and shopping carts we will assist
in setting up full online e-commerce gateways that make it possible
for sales to go smoothly from online purchase to direct deposits into
your business account.
Below are a few examples of merchant accounts and fees involved for accepting
credit cards from the high end to the more down to earth.
1) Full Service Merchant:
Cardservice International
Online Merchant Account
Setup Fee: none
Monthly Fee: $10.00
Discount Rate: 2.47%
Per Transaction Fee: 25¢
Monthly Gateway Fee: $19.95
Shopping Cart: not included
SSL Certificate: required
2) Popular and easy:
PayPal.com
Buy and Sell using
PayPal's online merchant account
Setup Fee: none
Monthly Fee: none
Discount Rate: 2.99%
(less as sales dollar volume goes up)
Per Transaction Fee: 30¢
Gateway Fees: included
Shopping Cart: easy links
(PayPal.com collects data)
SSL Certificate: not required
Although we can assist in an online store to meet your needs,
we have provided a short
list of some of the most popular e-commerce features below.
Some of the key features our online stores provide:
o Unlimited products and categories
o Thumbnail and full size product display
o Advanced search options
o Shipping prices and tax calculated in order
o Ability to add/edit/delete products
o Email notifications
Pricing estimates:
Option One: We can set up the store - YOU input your products. We can set up the store and store management with scripting that allows you to add, edit or delete products, product categories, descriptions, pricing, etc.
Pricing for a fully automated shopping cart on line store to move your products can be as little as $500.
Option Two: Same as above, except that we input all of your initial products
and you subsequently add, edit and delete products and/or product categories
as needed thereafter. Pricing would include the base design cost of $500 PLUS
additional fees for inputting all images, descriptions, pricing, etc.
You may opt to have the customer send a check or money order to an address,
which is fine but remember we live in a NOW society and when a person purchases
something they expect it now. Please consider your product and or services to
see if this option could be incorporated into your site.
There may be terms and words you have never seen before like 'DNS' and 'Domain
register'. Don't be alarmed, just type the term in your browser search and find
out what they mean.
Hope this info makes your decision making site design experience more pleasant.
**Additional site requirements and or requests will increase
total costs. (Example: Custom Animation and or Custom Flash Design, etc.)
Hourly rates: $60.00 per hr - 1 hr minimum.
Creativity is crucial to being unique
Providing creative services related
to web and printed media design. The aim is on professional and original
designs created for the customer's need.
Uniqueness is the outcome of Creativity
Being unique carries traits of individual
ideas or identity. Uniqueness portrays professionalism, so that you do
not fall into the category of a "cookie-cutter" pattern. To reach these
goals collaboration between client and designer is crucial.
