Average Price of UK website designed?

Three things you need for a web presence:

1) domain name ..... price depends on the extension (6 - 25 per annum) 2) hosting ..... lets say 4 per month (starter package) 3) pages ..... do them yourself or contract them out (depends on time spent etc. Usual to quote when the graphics and text content has been seen.)

From there you go into added extras like MSfrontpage extensions, java, php, mysql, that type of stuff.... probably not needed in your case, but who knows until discussed.

Cheers, Dave

Thanks for all the input, that was a very eloquent tale, and sounds very true. Do you know who got the job in the end? Probably you, as you where a freind of a freind ...

In article , Cuthbert Higginbottom writes

£30pa will get you a domain name, emails addresses and hosting - I use Claranet.

The site you describe could be £250-£300 if you provide all the text and there's not too much work to do on creating / editing images, otherwise up to about £500.

For this you should expect to have a purpose-built design, not one where your business is dumped into a template design. It assumes you have a company style/log for the website designer to work from. Budget about £50pa for maintenance and simple updates to the site.

I believe that one of the biggest concerns people have when thinking about having their own website is that they don't really know whether they are going to get a design they like at a high quality before they are asked to commit their money - even if the designer has been recommended.

This is why I always design the outline of a page for potential clients up front and before they decide if they want me to do the site or not.

I also currently offer to set up domain names, emails and hosting for free - just passing on the third party costs of £30.

01903 248463 if you (or anyone!) wants to chat, or you might find it useful to read the following for more basic information:

Regards,

I would do that for about 300 plus expenses. I get the expenses, the

300 (ish) is your donation to the Alzheimer's Society.

See my website for details. :-)

In message , Big Bill writes

What sort of world have woken in after my snooze?! "ONE RUN BY CHILDREN WITH SIGNAL MUMMY'S"???"

But I do like: >>>>>>>>>

BRILLIANT!!!

Thank God the stupid ill-informed "catering class" have left us still with those that can still see and understand "Common Seance" as my mum was always referring to it 1/2 a century ago.

GROTTO

PS If you can not even set up a web sight! You should not contemplate being in a responsible situation in business with other's dependent on you!

If you already have a brochure that the site data can be taken from and good pictures for the website you can expect to pay anywhere from £150 to £15,000 depending upon who does the work for you.

You could also do a simple site yourself.

Do make sure that whoever designs the site provides you with documentation and that you own copyright in the site design so that you can change it yourself later.

We don't do website design.

We charge £50.00 for hosting. Others charge more and a few charge a little less.

You'll also want to register a domain name for your business - ie example.com or example.co.uk. It's often a good idea to get all of the relevant alternatives registered to prevent anyone else from putting up a site to benefit from your reputation.

Domains cost from £5 a year for a .co.uk domain or £12.50 a year for .COM domains. Again others may charge more or a little less.

Do watch out for extra charges such as transfer or administration charges on domain registration/renewals though. We don't make such charges but lots of other companies do.

Also make sure that you are the domain registrant and you own the hosting account yourself. Lots of rogue design and hosting companies offer low prices (or even high prices) and then register everything in their own name which means you can have a lot of trouble with very high renewal fees and extortional fees to transfer to someone else.

Jason Clifford

Presumably, the company might even get tax back on the donation.

Thom

Very little, £100>£200 tops

Even less if you get a local kid to do it as a school project, or do it yourself.

I charge £30/year for my basic package and a .co.uk is £10, and a .com is £15 other domain names vary in price.

In article , Alex Threlfall writes

What?

Would you also get this "local kid" (or some of his mates) to write your business plan, develop your products, decide your marketing strategy, deal with your customers, do your book-keeping, ......... ?

School projects and schools in general can be supported, but not by outsourcing parts of your business to them!

Chalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cheese

I agree with Alan regarding DIY websites, they might be cheap, and even nice, but ultimately they look DIY or as if a school boy student has done one.Thanks for your suggestions though. Seems there is an awfully large difference in prices for ultimately the same thing.

Cheers

Very little, 100>200 tops

Even less if you get a local kid to do it as a school project, or do it yourself.

It could work out if you found an exceptionally tallented person, but DIY is out of the window, most of them look fine for a home website or amatuer hoby or club, but for a serious business I would think something more professional would be needed. Thanks for your input. .

I charge 30/year for my basic package and a .co.uk is 10, and a .com is 15 other domain names vary in price.

What do you call your basic package if I may ask?

In message , Cuthbert Higginbottom writes

What a child like (ILL-INFORMED) input!!!!!!!

I bet it comes from some nutters after sex with children!!!!!!

It was on TV about those wicked people. Yes even women now!!!!!

This is a little supercillious.

A domain is a web adrees on a server which points a specific directory containing all the files and subfolders for that particular site. It will have a unique addressing ending in the likes of.com, .net, co.uk etc. That adress may, of course, contain the firm name of the proprietor of the site or the brand name of the product or service it is selling.

A virtual domain is in fact a subfolder on a domain and uses the domain's address as its identifier with a username added. eg wwww.website.tiscali,co.uk/~avtax (which is an ancient site I used to maintain but do so no longer).

Most free web space from ISPs is in this format.

The disadvantage is, of course, that the user has an almost unintelligible and over long address to type into his browser and it gives away imediately just how great a cheapskate you really are!

I always thought it meant you shared a server with other domains, rather than having your own dedicated server with just your domain on it.

Agreed 100%.

Another thing that I have not seen mentioned in this thread is how to get the web site into the popular search engines. A good web design & hosting company may charge substantially more than a DIY web page and ISP disk space on a webserver, but if they are worth their salt they will also get your web site into the top few hits of the search engines.

It is arguably the most important factor if your web site is going to attract new customers.

A guy I know who owns a car hire company got a three-fold increase in business after his web site was re-hosted by a company that knew how to get it to come up when searches for such services were conducted. The URL did not change, nor did the web pages.

There are so many variables that it is impossible to give a figure. Depending on the answers to a number of questions I could quote you anything from £100 a year all-in, to ten times that.

The secret is to find someone who will talk things over with you and explain all the ins-and-outs and the costs involved, then you can make up your mind how much you want to spend to achieve the goals you set for the site.

One secret I will give you as a starter - don't spend too much to start with. It takes time to get sites listed in search engines, it takes time to build hits. Start with a simple site and you can grow. Start with a complex (and therefore costly site) and by the time you are getting the level of hits that make it worth while it will be old hat and need replacing.

Virtually however much you are willing to pay, there will be someone willing to charge that amount.

Here are a few prices close to the minimum:

Domain + Hosting: $35 one-off or $18 per year with a domain from

(very reliable) or (less reliable) - their site is down so I can't get the current prices.

Design: Do it yourself for $0. If you can use MS Word, you can use something like Macromedia Dreamweaver. MS Word has the facility to "save as" html pages, but this is not efficient. If you don't do it yourself, work it out on an hourly basis based on what how long you think it would take to put it on to a word processing package. Add a few hours for the graphics and you're there. More than 40 per hour would, in my view, be expensive.

In article , David writes

It would be interesting to hear some views on what hourly rate web designers are expected to be working for.

Take a figure towards the lower end of the figures quoted - £200 for a site.

How many hours work are people assuming are involved in that?

And would you expect to pay more per hour for a web designer, a car mechanic or a plumber?

Just that, my basic package ;) More info is available on my website, feel free to e-mail me for more information.