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I tend to focus on smaller scale, cheaper designs rather
than get involved in large scale web projects. Most of my customers are
small businesses looking for cost-effective, functional, navigable web
pages and are not interested in Flash-animated "artistic" sites,
which cannot be produced as cheaply and also tend not to perform so well
on search engines. Some other designers will also try and cut corners
by using commercial web templates to keep their designs as cheap to produce
as possible. Unfortunately this can make the design look cheap
too because of the popularity of these boilerplate sites around the web.
I don't use templates other than perhaps as a starting point for a discussion
about site colours and layouts, but your finished site will be a bespoke
creation just for you.
Web designs
Priced on a per-page basis,
plus a set-up fee. A "page"
is roughly an A4 equivalent. Price includes as much text and graphics
as can be fitted on the page, although large amounts of image
or text scanning, coding (e.g. Javascript), and animations, are charged
extra at the hourly rate. As a rough guide, the cheapest 3 page
static site would be £235+VAT, 5 pages £325+VAT, and
10 pages £550+VAT. Content-managed/dynamic or e-commerce sites
tend to start at around £500+VAT (additional software costs are
incurred). Remember, if you qualify for Connecting
Somerset grant funding then the cost can be up to 50% cheaper.
Web space
Starting from 10MB of web space managed
on your behalf by myself, for £85+VAT per annum. I buy the web space
in bulk to enable me to re-sell it at the cheapest prices to customers.
Plenty of space for basic sites and some clients run two or three static
sites within this quota at no extra charge. For larger sites, 50MB or 100MB
chunks are available from £170+VAT
per annum.
Domain name registration, hosting and administration
A two-yearly fee of £60+VAT covers everything
to do with your domain name, from finding a suitable one (if required),
registering it through the appropriate authority, hosting it and setting
up the email routing (including spam filtering), to acting as domain administrator
for ICANN or Nominet matters.
For details of other prices,
please get in touch or visit the main prices page.
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