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Webdesign is getting better value for money year on year with ever falling online storage and bandwidth costs. Print production is also becoming cheaper with online and national printers providing high quality lithographic print at a fraction of the cost 10 years ago. Web Design Costs There are four main areas to think about when costing a budge for your website: - hosting
- domain name
- website deign and build
- aquiring images
Some of these costs can be kept to a minimum, here are some useful facts: - hosting will continue to get cheaper as he storage and bandwidth costs continue to drop. Unless you are using video or large amounts of audio on your website you can budget just £5 - 10 a month for a small to medium sized businesses website
- domain name - when choosing a domain it is sometimes useful to aquire the .co.uk the .com and some of the other domain derivatives to ensure you do not loose 'traffic' / visitor to other businesses using a similar domain. We purchase most of our domains through 123-reg.co.uk who typically charge less than £6 for a .co.uk domain for 2 years (plus VAT)
- website design and build costs no longer reflect the number of pages you need, more the type of functionality required on a website to best promote or generate revenue for your business. online shops, video, virtual tours, document libraries amongst other things will increase the design and build time of your site and therefore effect costs
- images will cost you nothing if you already have your own or very little if bought fro man online image library. We also have many of our own stock images which we can use without cost, or we can help you choose some from our preferred online stock libraries. Alternatively we can take images for you or you can engage a photographer of your own. Typically we can usually find some suitable images if you have non within a very small budget - usually £15 or less
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