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Just thought I'd ask. I've been shopping around and still researching web design/web hosting companies. Besides the top ones on the web I contact a few locally...one contacted me back and said they offer to do a 10 page web design (it included some other features but I was taken by the price-I forgot) for $4500-$5000 I think a 5 page was $950. This does not sound reasonable, but then again I know nothing about the business, but I didnt think it would be that expensive???

It's impossible to discuss this meaningfully without comparing like with like, which means that a pretty detailed specification must be given before anyone can really comment meaningfully, I think: otherwise it's all just opinion, general impression, and a series of assumptions and guesses.

For that price I would expect a really awesome custom design AND some sort of system to power the website - a CMS (content management system) or shopping cart. I honestly cannot see paying that kind of money for a static HTML site.

Design price does vary depending on the needs of the website and the functionality required. However, I generally charge way less than that for a 10 page website - even with ecommerce added.

Teresa :)

Pricing depends on your specific requirements.

However, in general, you'll get a price range of that nature if you contact a company (with several employees) for your web design needs.

You'll get a cheaper quote if you stick with a freelance web designer. He can do the same quality of job for much lesser price. He doesn't have as much overhead as a company does.

Ditto on Bryan's post. Plus, I've found that if you don't provide enough information on the kind of website along with features needed, some companies will give you a quote that's on the higher end. It is definitely best to go with a freelancer.

This thread pretty much sums up why everything I said in this one http://www.wahm.com/forum/wahms-web-design-48/459574-post-prices-not-post-prices.html is true. Customer doesn't think it should cost to much, but doesn't know anything about the business. "10 page web design (it included some other features but I was taken by the price-I forgot)" the other features could have been the CMS system someone else mentioned above. This is why people shouldn't post prices on their site, but it also sounds like they didn't get enough information from you before giving you a quote.


MCW, contact me, let me know what you want done, I'll probably have some questions for you, but I'd be more than happy to give you a quote for your site design. I will tell you up front that it's $45/hr(just uped my rates last week), but that's a little over 21 hours worth of work compared to the other company and if its just web site design (no programming) then it's very highly unlikely that it will take that long.

I hate to say it but after talking to him about what he wants, they were correct in the price they gave him.

This is just based off of what I charge, which I'm finding out is low.

My rate is $45/hr. They wanted to charge $5000 total.

$5000/$45 = 111.11 man hours or almost 3 full work weeks. You should give a minimum of a week to do just the design, these includes mockup, conversion from HTML/CSS, testing in multiple browsers, plus feedback and response from the client. Already down to 2 weeks. A week of testing after the programming is done, plus more client feedback, down to 1 week (note this isn't browser testing to make sure it looks ok, this is real world use case scenarios for the site, trying to break the site, cross site scripting attacks, etc.). That only leaves < a week to do all the programming, and it would take a day or two just to get the database setup and designed. I hate to harp on it, but all of the above is exactly why I don't do blanket prices on my site, there's to many variables that factor into the final price.