VALINOR

I am frequently being asked by business people, ‘what are the costs involved in building me a website?’ .

So in answer to that let me give you an overview of what is involved and the typical costs. Before doing that, let me say, you may have seen on the internet various deals or packages to simplify things for people ie 1 to 5 pages GBP 497, 6 to 10 GBP 1000 etc. Those deals would have been costed on a basis of estimated costs and time expected to complete the job.

The process:

• you decide on a domain name ( your internet address ) and lease it
  - allow GBP 10 per year
• you get hosting ( somewhere to site your address )
  - variable, depends on needs. For business hosting say GBP 120 per year
• we design the structure of your website
  - variable / negotiable hours * rate
• we build your website on the host based on your content
  - variable / negotiable hours * rate
• you test the website and feed back any changes
  - your time
• we make the changes
  - variable / negotiable hours * rate
• we make the website live

The changes and testing steps maybe repeated several times. A typical hourly rate would be GBP 25 – 35. Costs would also be higher if the designer has to provide or create the content for the site. Whether it be for sourcing images or researching the niche / subject to write content that makes sense to the type of person who will be reading the site.

So from above you can see there are annual charges for domain leasing and hosting and also one off build costs which involve a number of man hours.