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Since90+2
21-02-2015, 02:51 PM
Anyone have any experience of website design and the sort of costs involved?

Sergey
21-02-2015, 04:03 PM
What length is a bit of string? It all depends what you want and how you see the site going forward.

I run a dual language newspaper style site that is updated daily with the minimum of fuss - but the set-up cost me circa £500 and quite a bit of time and effort.

I'm currently putting together a site for a friend who is a landscape gardener. Pretty basic design - Homepage - several sub categories from a drop-down menu with supporting images. I'll probably charge him £200 which will include domain registration and a years hosting.

If you have a brief, drop me a PM and I'll give you an outline guestimate.

You'll also have to factor in SEO and indexing the pages/posts so Google/Bing/Yahoo can find it. That's fairly specialist work that can confuse a novice. It's one thing developing a site - it's another thing marketing it and getting site traffic.

green&left
23-02-2015, 01:16 PM
Anyone have any experience of website design and the sort of costs involved?

If you could do it yourself, or learn to do it yourself via Wordpress you could have a website for a couple of quid a month.

If your looking at getting someone in to do it then your talking £150+ from a student freelancer on Gumtree to a few grand for a professional.

Wordpress really is pretty simple though and the add-ons and themes can easily transfer a standard looking website to someone quite unique and professional looking.

Moulin Yarns
23-02-2015, 02:14 PM
I've used this site for 3 different websites. my own small business, my brother-in-laws self catering cottage and an art tutorial site.

http://uk.mrsite.com/

As Sergey says, it all depends what you want to achieve. If you need to get sales then you need to get it up the top of search engines to get the hits. In which case it is worth paying someone to do it for you.

LALthehibeeGAL
26-02-2015, 03:01 PM
I just noticed this thread my brother does website design

if you are still looking I can send you a link

Cheers

Lal:wink: