Website designing: breakdown of the costs you pay.
What you’re Paying For
Website designing: breakdown of the costs you pay.When trying to budget for website design costs, you have to know what you need. Several things you have to consider that is to say, do you want a new site or to re-design it? What is your plan on servicing mobile users? Do you want content management functionality or a blog? Who is going to maintain the site? Will you need multimedia on site? What of special features, will you need them? And how much content do you have or need? Now, just continue this article for the details.
New sites costs much more than Redesigns
For new sites, web designers have no earlier created assets to work from, it is starting from nothing and develop what you will love unlike redesigning where you have some idea. This is good because you will work closely with the designer to get exactly what you want within your finances
The Content Creation and Addition
It is cheap to create all of the content and insert it in to the site by your self. Designers are ok with delivering a design template without additional costs. However, if you wish for the design firm to insert the content for you into the site, you have to pay for more costs.
Content Management Tools and Blog
If you’re running a WordPress site you have an advantage of having a form of CMS (content management system) on your website. Tools like Joomla! Drupal and WordPress, have challenges of their own, so integrating a website using them will require extra time than developing a website from scratch with our simple CSS & HTML.
Graphics
Graphics is difficult to build, expensive and also purchasing stock images for the website is expensive too. don’t skimp on this area of your website, but; poor graphics will not do good for you.
Mobile Designs
Mobiles are now the most used devices on accessing the web, so your design must be friendly to mobile customers.ie, it should be responsive to all devices viewing the page.but building the responsive site is more costly than a simple site for the desktop Web browser.
Multimedia
Some multimedia like video & flash are not easy to put together with a website. Therefore, they will raise the cost. You have to budget for them too to get an attractive website.
Don’t Forget Maintenance
Most companies tend to forget budgeting for maintenance and others think they can do it themselves. It is risky, the time you delete your home page by accident, you will lose several hours of sales trying to recover it and there you will regret why you didn’t pay extra costs for maintenance deal. Maintenance costs vary upon what company you are dealing with. If you want designers to do extra work like making new images, maintaining social media putting in new content, and other tasks continuously, expect bigger prices.
Special Features Cost Extra
Special features truly increase the price of the site but also boost / improve your company/ business. Features like;
Site registration and membership
Social media: facebook, Twitter, etc
News feeds of both your content and addition content to the site
Newsletters
SEO: submission to search engines, page optimization etc.
Photo gallery
Forums or chat rooms
Advertising integration
Email addresses for the domain and auto-responders
Contact forms and surveys
Metrics: Google analytics, custom reports, etc.
Ecommerce: catalogs, shopping carts, payment processing