How much is to much for website Design ?

Question

Hi

There are many website design companies, or all shapes and sizes.

There is a growing trendy that even companies using templated designs that they have bought itn or small bedroom run concerns are charging upwards of £1000 for their simplest brochure websites or £2000/£2500 for standard CMS and Ecommerce setups.

Is it the case that you as prospective clients would feel if a web design company charges say from £300 for a static 3 page website, or £500 for a 4 page self editable web presence and Ecommerce from £500 they are in someway not professional. And that it doesn't quite add up ?

Simply put, do you think a website design company can price itselfs out of the market, by charging to little ?

Answer 1

£500 for a 4 page website, which is the same as a 3 page website with a few more clicks is REDICULOUS. If you know anything about HTML/XHTML w/ CSS, you can build yourself one. Considering they're just taking an old site they've used before and changing the text in it. A short 30 minute process.

I could make you one, [e-mail]. I'd love £500. ☺But seriously. anything more than $200 is a crazy ripoff.

Answer 2

It depends on the website type. For example we charge for a 4 page personal website £40 average, then £6 for extra page. A customer may need an extra feature, e.g. a contact form there is an extra £15.99 just for the form, or a photo gallery with blending an extra £24.99. See examples: http://www.instantbooks.info/add_functions_web_form.php

Other companies may charge £100s or 1000s for the same quality work. At www.instantbooks.info while we calculate the cost of building a website on the time spent and the market price we are tied by the tough competition and the handy information on web design; today most people are able to build their websites by themselves.

I agree 100% with your point when potential customers see low prices they are reluctant to choose our service thinking the price matches low quality design or poor ecommerce store. On the other hand, customers who tested the service and have enjoyed the low-cost always come back for after service.

I think web design companies who are ripping off customers are not considering the opportunities forgiven and long-term relationship. While marketing managers in these companies can be doing a good role in profit making their pricing strategy can be unfair for many customers. Despite this they succeed because they are financially able to advertise and promote their services.

Answer 3

You probably will need someone to update the website for you. Or, you could have the people you hired do all the work and then have them teach you how to update it. Depending on how to want to update it, you should have the person you hired to it for you. You see, web design is very very broad. Some web designers go though a LOTTTT of coding which would be the hardest and longest way of making a website, or they can use a program like dreamweaver to make it. They are very difficult programs to use but if you know how to use them, USE THEM. But if you don't, again; have them do it for you.

Answer 4

What you are saying is correct. there is no rule of thumb in this game. Any one can set up as a web page designer, that is the easy bit. its the migration of that web site onto the internet that is the real trick. knowing how to publish a web site and getting it to migrate is the real issue. DNS plays a major role with the correct zone record information with a correct script that has no errors combined with reverse DNS zone file.

And then it will migrate out but will take at least 48 hours to achieve this to happen. You generally have to get some kind of sponsorship to achieve a good result and that is what really costs the money the sponsorship is what you are paying for.

Answer 5

Difficult one



Some companies expect to £50 and get a full shopping cart with secure certificate. Other's EXPECT to pay £20,000 for a few raw pages. Others expect to pay £100 an hour for a management consultant, and others expect you to be doing them a favour for free. I guess it really comes down to the 'Perceived Benefit' of employing a particular company.

Answer 6

It depends on supply vs demand , if I need some web designing to be done , I post it in freelance websites like http://definitivelab.com/ , http://getafreelnacer.com/ , http://scriptlance.biz/ , http://rentacoder.co.in/ ,etc and let many web designers bid for my projects , then I hire whoever is good and cheap.