Costs for Web design / set up

jonwelsh

There is some good advice in this thread and as a few others have mentioned you should shop for a local company. If the company are on your doorstep then the chances are that they won't crap on you and if you do have any problems you can confront them face to face.

Most web design and development companies offer tiered costings from a basic website to full blown bespoke shopping cart solutions. Any company worth their salt will include standard SEO practices (page names, titles, page descriptions, submission to the main search engines and valid coding) as standard practice. Other optional SEO packages including blogging, link building etc should be on a tiered scale.

You could always check out their work by taking a look at their portfolio and contacting some of the companies they have worked for, ask if they were happy with the service, costs etc.. should give you some good info about working with them on your project.

You could as some have mentioned build the website yourself, this would obviously eat in to the time you are devoting to your buisness and when things don't quite work out the way you expected, be prepared for hefty re-development bills or a web company telling you it would be cheaper to start from scratch.

Hope that helps a little...

oldoakey

You could go for the free option getting British business online https://www.gbbo.co.uk.

Its basic but free and you can tweak the design a little and add your own wording. You could use this as a starting point to see if this is the type of website you really need as most that have had websites will tell you its a learning curve and you don't always really know what it is you want at this moment.

steve1980

oldoakey wrote: »

You could go for the free option getting British business online https://www.gbbo.co.uk.

Its basic but free and you can tweak the design a little and add your own wording. You could use this as a starting point to see if this is the type of website you really need as most that have had websites will tell you its a learning curve and you don't always really know what it is you want at this moment.

Noooooooo!

Anthonis

There are 2 ways for this:
1. Business is really profitable and you have lots of spare money, then hire company for all work to do. Before you choose somebody for this type of job check their portfolio and costs. This one will cost you from 200pounds with 1 year hosting.
2. Business on first stage, low profit: Try to make it by yourself.
Buy cheap hosting. Most hostings have now 1 click install feature. Install CMS (WP, Joomla, Drupal...) - can be Wordpress as its easy to use. You can find lot's of free and paid templates online. Lot's of plugins. And it's left to add content to it... This will cost you up to 200 pounds with 2 years hosting.
Hosting costs about 70pounds per year.

steve1980

Anthonis wrote: »

There are 2 ways for this:
1. Business is really profitable and you have lots of spare money, then hire company for all work to do. Before you choose somebody for this type of job check their portfolio and costs. This one will cost you from 200pounds with 1 year hosting.
2. Business on first stage, low profit: Try to make it by yourself.
Buy cheap hosting. Most hostings have now 1 click install feature. Install CMS (WP, Joomla, Drupal...) - can be Wordpress as its easy to use. You can find lot's of free and paid templates online. Lot's of plugins. And it's left to add content to it... This will cost you up to 200 pounds with 2 years hosting.
Hosting costs about 70pounds per year.

I think you should concentrate on the business with your friend rather than giving advice on something you don't know yourself!

flexrider

Acc72 wrote: »

Hi all,

My wife has a small business and is considering having a website - she is looking at a relatively simple 5 page brochure website.

Although technically simple, she wants the actual design, layout and wording etc. to be very sharp and professional.

Could anybody give me an idea of a ball-park cost fur such a website ? (just so we know what to budget)

We are also thinking of using a copywriter to get the most of SEO etc. without expecting the earth.

Do designers/copywiters charge a fixed fee ? - as this is only a small business, we don't want to go down this road only to see costs spiral.

Also, any tips of how to find somebody would be appreciated - I was looking earlier today at a copy writers site that looked good until I spotted a typo ......

Thanks for any any help.

There seem to be a few coming up on MSE asking about website design for business but to be honest(I work in this business also and design/Maintain websites for SME and larger corproatons)

I would have a look at this post i placed on here to another person who asked the same questions. and my replys also

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3520095

As for copywriters and SEO Copywriters are very expensive but if you get a good web devolopler like myself you can get all these services contracted to upload and maintan the site.

best to look at that MSE post in regard to what you require

Thanks
Flex

flexrider

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As for copywriters and SEO Copywriters are very expensive but if you get a good web devolopler like myself you can get all these services contracted to upload and maintan the site. Its best to get yourself a general idea of how you want your site to be and what budget you have by planning out the site with pens and paper or a storyboard using microsoft word or powerpoint,then you can take it to a devolopler and work along the lines of content displayed,Business logo, Contact us page, Order page ect,

best to look at that MSE post in regard to what you require

as for rates? Thats a tricky question because devolopler's can be contracted to support the site fixtures and issues such as update to content per week/Month ect plus take in account the cost for domain and hosting per year and what type of hosting such as VPN(private hosting) or a host such as Bluehost or godaddy ect.


Thanks
Flex[/QUOTE]

flexrider

steve1980 wrote: »

I think you should concentrate on the business with your friend rather than giving advice on something you don't know yourself!

Agree with this the guy who posted Thinks if you get a free template and Hosting you be saving a few quid and the fact is it takes a longer time to modify these templates to a business site using Dreamweaver when their are 1000000000's of other websites that look and feel the same after modifaction, or are using the same template which effects the SEO with the search engines factor, Imagine you took a template from a free hosting like the other sites and just wacked it up (like the other sites may do) To a search engine it just looks like a template again form the other 100000 sites out there and Google see this as a copy of other sites,

Best to use a mixture of colours not hard to do, LIke MSE uses Green Red Blue primary colours all round the site, colours that cheer people up, Some templates online can be too overbearing, Some wordpress plugins can be too complaecated also for users the key is to design your own site yourself with your own users in Mind on when they use it. how will it function, Whats the business message you want to protray forget about the money making like the last person said if you cannot find upon your site withinn two clicks from search engine to your site the info or message you protray for business they want they will not return.

To the op have a look around at websites you would like to be like but do not copy them, Just study them and find out the site layout and how/what/where/why they get vistors daily.

steve1980

Anthonis wrote: »

Mate I know that you have an eye on me. But I am not gay so stop sticking to me.
Again its my friends business not mine.
And I know more about hosting and web than you know about your wife... Oh you might not have her.... Anyways get a life ok:cool:

Get a grip. No need for the personal insult.

You were asking how to run a business the other day so you've amassed a huge amount of knowledge very quickly.

Oh, and your English has improved. Rosetta Stone?

Anthonis

steve1980 wrote:

Get a grip. No need for the personal insult.

You were asking how to run a business the other day so you've amassed a huge amount of knowledge very quickly.

Oh, and your English has improved. Rosetta Stone?

I think you really need friends:D Ok let's sort everything out.
You just don't get the point that I am not new in business. I am new in this country business. I have 5 years experience within businesses. I had my own company.
About web setup/hosting I know also, because I've been doing them for others.
I know lot's of things. The only thing is that I need to know is UK Law, but that has nothing to do with the web hosting.