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Website Design Pricing: How Long is a Piece of String?

The first question we are usually asked is "How much is a website?"

Many people think that the cost is related directly to the number of pages - four pages = R2,000 therefore forty pages = R20,000.

How Website Design affects Pricing

This is only partially true because there are several factors in any website that affect the price in a non-arithmetic way regardless of number of pages:

1. 'Setup' involves creating a 'look & feel' that the client is happy with, that enhances the website usability and which reflects the client's business.
2. Functionality - contact forms, slide shows, database support, content management system, product shots, ecommerce etc. will affect the price of a website.
3. The length and complexity of layout of the individual pages together with editing.
4. Finally, the number of pages will obviously affect the price although adding extra pages is relatively inexpensive.

Beware!

Experience has shown that 'nickel and diming' a website is false economy. Such websites do nothing except to soak up hosting fees and direct business to your competition.

A little spent on employing an involved website designer and a regimen of regular maintenance will pay very large dividends.

We are not the cheapest in town, nor are we the most expensive. We produce value for money, quality websites that perform for their owners. Our after sales service is second to none. We even return phone calls!

Our Pricing

A typical professional marketing website for a small/medium sized business will comprise:

• Up to 10 pages (Home, About, Contact, Products, Gallery, Location etc. etc.).
• Original artwork optimized for speed and bandwidth.
• Your content editede and laid out to ensure maximum impact.
• A contact form for people to be more structured in their response.
• Content that is readability addressed.
• International website usability principles.
• Code and content is search engine optimized.
• A Google sitemap to help search engines index your website.
• Similar sites to yours are linked to you to help your search ranking.
• Cascading style sheets (CSS) for good search ranking and speed.

The price: R8,750.00 (no VAT).

Add mySQL Database: R1850.00

Add eCommerce: R2,350.00 (VCS)

Add Joomla CMS: R2,500.00

Add extra pages: R875.00 per page

Free of charge is our unlimited advice!

If you're starting from scratch with a small business website, budget for R15,000 in the first year and R4,000 each year thereafter.

The Number of Visitors you can Expect (the website 'traffic')

This varies on the size of the business. A small operation should attract 300 visitors a month whilst a larger operation will be visited by 1,500 or more.It doesn't take a mathematical genius to work out that only a small proportion of that traffic is needed to generate significant revenue. In the case of the tourist trade, each visitor will be acting on behalf of two or three others. Twenty visitors a day doesn't sound very much but the possible business is around 15,000 visitors annually!