How much does a website cost?

It’s the ques­tion all web design­ers /
developers / agen­cies really dread being asked;
“So how much does a web­site cost”? Not because we don’t
get excited at the pro­spect of work­ing on a new pro­ject, not because
web design­ers would rather be off snow­board­ing than work­ing on your web­site,
but simply because …it’s impossible to try and give any­thing like the short answer
that the poten­tial cus­tomer is hop­ing for.

The hon­est answer is: “it depends, ..what sort of web­site do you want?”

The Scope of a Website

Web­sites vary greatly in cost. Web­sites have dif­fer­ent costs because no two web­sites are exactly the same. Web­sites vary massively in size, func­tion­al­ity and design from one to the next, so for a poten­tial cus­tomer we need to estab­lish the extent of ‘size, func­tion­al­ity and design’ in rela­tion to their web­site. This inform­a­tion gath­er­ing pro­cess we cover extens­ively in our “Get­ting to know you” sec­tion.

How to get a Quote for Web Design

We have put together a Pro­ject Ques­tion­naire that you can down­load and fill in. Just email the com­pleted doc­u­ment back to us, or you can use our Con­tact Form to upload the doc­u­ment for our attention.

But what does a basic, very simple web­site cost?

This is usu­ally the second ques­tion that a poten­tial cus­tomer asks! More often than not, after the inform­a­tion gath­er­ing pro­cess, it turns out they aren’t want­ing a basic, very simple web­site, and that their ambi­tions (and sub­sequent costs) are bey­ond ‘basic’, but we guess it lets them get a feel of entry point pri­cing.

These options below can be very use­ful for Small Busi­ness Cus­tom­ers who might just want to get them­selves online with an ini­tial pres­ence, and later on scale up their size, func­tion­al­ity and design as part of a phase 2 development.

Both options above use the Word­Press CMS as the method by which a cus­tomer updates their web­site con­tent for them­selves. Lay­out designs will be provided in jpg format for approval before Word­Press cus­tom­isa­tion begins.

Other cost considerations

You should budget for Domains and Host­ing if you don’t already have them (prices avail­able on request). Also con­sider the cost for images that you might want to use on your site, so budget for Stock Pho­to­graphy costs too.

An art­icle we wrote about using images on your web­site may be use­ful reading.

So what would a web­sites like (example.com) cost?

This is another ques­tion that poten­tial cus­tom­ers always seem to ask us! Using an example web­site is a great way of get­ting a quote. If you find a web­site using fea­tures or ele­ments sim­ilar to the ones you have in mind for your own web­site, or designs and lay­outs that work in a cer­tain way, then tell us the URL(s) of the website(s) and we can quote based on examples.

Almost all of our cus­tom­ers come to us with needs and require­ments that go bey­ond the basics, we have many cus­tom­ers web­sites on show in our Port­fo­lio and News sec­tions that are packed with won­der­ful fea­tures and func­tion­al­ity and are great examples of what’s pos­sible, so feel free to go and get some inspir­a­tion from them, but because we value cli­ent con­fid­en­ti­al­ity so highly, we can never dir­ectly reveal budgets or dis­close the final costs of our cus­tom­ers websites.

And Finally …

We under­stand that get­ting a quote can be quite daunt­ing, we try and keep tech­nical jar­gon down to a min­imum and we try and explain The Key Stages in a Web Pro­ject up front before you even agree to any costs.

If you con­tact us about a quote you’ll only find your­self on our mail­ing list if you’ve spe­cific­ally asked to be on it, and there’s no hard sell - EVER!

If you still need any con­vin­cing that Twenty­four­ten are the web design and devel­op­ment com­pany to trust with your pro­ject, please take a look through the About Us sec­tion and learn a little more.