Web Design Prices - How Much Will A Website Cost?

It is difficult to provide specific prices for you as the requirements of every website are different.  However, we can give you examples of sites and how much we might charge for each to give you a good guide.  Please bare in mind, that the cost of hosting and a domain name are a cost that applies to all sites whether they be a single "holding" page or an elaborate e-commerce site.  Therefore whilst the cost of creating and hosting one page may seem quite expensive, the price of subsequent pages is far cheaper as the cost of hosting, domain name and basic design has already been covered in the cost of the main or "home" page.
 

A Single Page Website, or "Holding Page"

Some businesses will not benefit massively from having a website, or sometimes the owner of a business may not have the time available to devote to having a complex site created and therefore a holding page or single page site is ideal for showing basic contact details and maybe a company overview.

This example of a basic holding page without links is simple to construct and together with hosting, a domain name, 5 email addresses and the creation of the page could be done from as little as £34.99 for the first year and £24.99 there after.

A good example of a single page site is Norman Stephens Unlimited Builders from Balsall Common.  The client's colours are beige and red, and we were asked to create a very simple clean site with a "contact" tab pointing to the company's email address.  Including the design of the site, the cost of re-creating the company logo from a letterhead, 12 months hosting, 2 year domain name and email setup could be done from as little as £100.

A Two Page Website With Contact Form and Social Media Integration

Only slightly more elaborate than the above example, our own SONA Publishing website is a good example of a site that offers the basic information of a company together with links to other sites, further information and social media integration plus custom contact form, protected from spam by Google's Re-Captcha.  Including the design of the site, Re-Captcha account creation, 12 months hosting, 2 year domain name and email setup could be done from as little as £150.

Multiple Page Sites

Once we move on from two page sites, they become more complicated depending on the requirements of the individual client.  As a rough guide, we would say allow £100 for the first page as above, and between £30 and £50 for subsequent pages there after.  Complex pages such as forums, directories and blogs are essentially only one page however the time involved in setting these up initially is considerable and a guide price of £50-£100 for one of these features is a good place to start.  Despite the extra expense, these can of course prove to be invaluable in attracting visitors to your site.

Examples include a site we created for free for local charity The Shakespeare Hospice, called The Great Shakespeare Ride and a site we created for our own SONA Publishing magazine The Stratford Directory.

E-Commerce Sites

Selling products online is a complicated business.  Creating a site that has a secure checkout facilities, interacts with the customer, tracks stock and notifies the client of orders etc. is time consuming to both set-up and test.  It is therefore very difficult to indicate how much an e-commerce site costs to design etc. and very much depends on the number of products to be sold and the level of services offered.  This site for Inner Tubes Direct sells over a hundred products, offers secure checkout by credit card or PayPal, a customer account section where orders can be tracked, automated notifications by email and a host of other facilities.  As a guide this site cost in excess of £1,000 to produce, but a site selling only a few items via PayPal could cost the same as a multiple page site.

Hosting for our websites

All websites require "hosting", or in layman's terms, space on a remote computer known as a server.  Simple websites, even those with hundreds of pages, can be hosted on "shared hosting" which is relatively cheap and economical.  If a website has extra functions or a huge user demand that puts a great load on the shared sever, the site will have to use a dedicated server so that performance is not impacted.  We generally will start all websites on "shared hosting" in the first instance, however it may become necessary to move a site to a dedicated server once it becomes very popular.  Where we feel this may be an unavoidable eventuality, we will make you aware of this possible future need before we start work on your website.

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