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How much does it cost?
There is no one price for website development
The price of a website development project will definitely vary from project to project. More so, there are also different kinds of websites out there. A blog site is certainly different from an auction site. The charges that a web designer or a web design company will definitely be different. The question of cost is a very broad question when it comes to website development but this question can be rephrased into other more tangible terms. You narrow down website development into how long it will take to build the website and how many tasks are needed to be accomplished in order to make the website run. When you narrow your question down like this, you may have a better chance of estimating the cost of your website development project.
Estimate the total project price by number of hours to complete
When you breakdown your website creation into the number of hours required to build the website, you can already put a price on your own. How much does this web designer charge per hour? If it takes forty eight hours for a website to become up and running and the web designer charges twenty dollars an hour then the total project cost will be nine hundred and sixty dollars. Normally, the web designer will just tell you to pay him or her a thousand dollars to get the website up and running. Novice web designers will probably charge around fifteen to twenty dollars an hour but the highly paid, highly recognized web designers in the market today can charge up to one hundred dollars per hour.
Estimate the total project price by number of tasks
When you breakdown your website building into the number of tasks required to build the website, you can find the total project price by simply adding things up. For example, if it costs three hundred dollars for a writer to produce the articles on the website, two hundred dollars for a graphic designer to make the website logos and the graphics, two hundred dollars for a programmer to encode the website, and another three hundred dollars to optimize the website on the search engines then all in all, you will be able to come up with a total contract price. The total cost will be again, one thousand dollars. It is the same price but a different approach. Website development prices and rates can certainly vary from project to project and the example here is for illustration purposes only.
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