any good value website designer company?

durain

anyone know roughly how much to do a professional website for a small company? nothing fancy but have to look professional.

also, any recommendation?

NellyLock

i doubt there would be a fixed value, how often does it change/how big is it to begin with etc if the site remains static after it is built i would imagine that there will be a monthly cost to host price but then there will be additional costs for man hours for design/build/updates.

all depends on scale of what you want really...

whyhellothere

durain wrote:

anyone know roughly how much to do a professional website for a small company? nothing fancy but have to look professional.

also, any recommendation?

Just a Recommendation maybe worth a try very good designs not sure on price

https://www.consistentmedia.co.uk

hth :beer:

lellie

as a freelance web designer.. (I'm a student and web design is something I love and do in my spare time.. - have a look at sonance for an example of my work.. )

It really depends on the work.. PM if you want an idea of what *I'd* charge..

It also depends on the company. They vary so much. If you got quotes from say 10 freelancers and 10 agencies - I bet you would get quotes ranging from about £100 - 10,000!!! I'm serious too.

A professional with a lot of experience will charge a HELL OF A LOT more than a freelance student like myself.. Often it's worth finding a friend or individual freelancer - as they will often need the work more than a company/agency would so will charge less - they will offer a more personalised service too - so will often produce the better work. Just because they don't do it full time doesn't mean they're not talented - and I'm not just saying this because I design - I have many friends who also web design and the ones that work for themselves and not for companies always produce the best value work

wolfman

Not the most professional looking site though.

Try these guys, http://www.assertia.net. Friends from my uni days, not sure if they are still operating but it can't hurt trying to contact them.

lellie

wolfman wrote:

Not the most professional looking site though.

Try these guys, http://www.assertia.net. Friends from my uni days, not sure if they are still operating but it can't hurt trying to contact them.

Their site breaks in mozilla firefox with 1024*768.. if they can't even manage to make their homepage work in all browsers - or at least downgrade nicely - I wouldn't trust them to produce a professional website.. the design is smart but yeah crossbrowser is necessary!

durain

thanks for all your response.

i will get my own domain and hosting. just need the web pages done. probably wont be more than 15 pages and will be mostly information on the pages, so i guessed it's going to be static.

oh... probably need some ideas on the company's logo as well

lellie, i might take you on your offer. let me get some rough ideas of what i want in the website, etc.

1jim

Hi
We used http://www.uksitebuilder.net/ simon is the guy who runs/owns this company. We cant praise Simon enougth for his work on our site
Jim

wolfman

lellie wrote:

Their site breaks in mozilla firefox with 1024*768.. if they can't even manage to make their homepage work in all browsers - or at least downgrade nicely. I wouldn't trust them to produce a professional website.. the design is smart but yeah crossbrowser is necessary!

Breaks down is a bit of an overexageration. One of their DIV tags is off on a few pages meaning the scroll window sticks out by 75 pixels, an easy change in the style sheet by the looks of how they coded it.

Like I said it's back from my days at uni and I don't think they have been maintaining or updating it, but worth contacting them if you can. Also, if you have a look at any of their client work you'll see it's cross browser compliant.

lellie

wolfman wrote:

Breaks down is a bit of an overexageration. One of their DIV tags is off on a few pages meaning the scroll window sticks out by 75 pixels, an easy change in the style sheet by the looks of how they coded it.

Like I said it's back from my days at uni and I don't think they have been maintaining or updating it, but worth contacting them if you can. Also, if you have a look at any of their client work you'll see it's cross browser compliant.

well yes.. I know it's only minor breakage - it suffers from broken box syndrome - (mozilla treats padding differently to IE) but there are 404s and things too - I understand it's old but it's about a good impression isn't it? The main page should work - and broken box is so well documented that designers should cater for it.

wendy05

durain wrote:

anyone know roughly how much to do a professional website for a small company? nothing fancy but have to look professional.

also, any recommendation?

give me a pm and ill knock something up for you if you like ... in return for a small donation to a breast cancer charity / hospice.

in fact ill offer that to to anyone else too ..