Web Design

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Website Design Fees

Web design fees start at $1500 for a straightforward project. Every custom built website is unique and differs in complexity, use of dynamic content, navigation, layout, text to image ratio, graphic animation and size. Answers to these questions usually help determine the price. To give you better idea of my going rate before you request a quote, here are some sample offers.

Small Custom Website

$1500

Under ten pages. Custom web design from scratch. Custom graphic design. Style sheet. Header. Top menu. Footer. Body. Layout. Images. Contact form. XHTML. CSS. Basic optimization. Setup. Testing. Troubleshooting. Search engine submission. Hosting and maintenance is optional.

Medium Size Custom Website

$2250

Under twenty pages. Custom web design. Custom graphic design. Style sheet. Header. Top menu. Side menu. Footer. Body. Layout. Lots of images. Photo gallery or menu. Service or product list. Contact form. News links. Sitemap. XHTML. CSS. Basic optimization. Setup. Testing. Troubleshooting. Search engine submission. Hosting and maintenance is optional.

Web Design for Product Catalogue

$3000

Custom look design for a third-party online product catalogue system's visitor interface side. Style sheet. Graphic design. Header. Footer. Common elements. Content inputting up to 20 products 2,000 words. Product photos are extra unless you provide them - $20 per product photo right here in my light tent or $20 per product on location, with a $200 minimum per session. XHTML. CSS. Setup. Testing. Troubleshooting. Search engine submission. Hosting and maintenance is optional.

Web Design for ProStores

$2750

Custom look design for ProStores and or such ready third-party hosted, secured and managed ecommerce system. Product photos are $20 per product photo right here in our light tent or $20 per product on location, with $200 minimum per session. If you provide the product descriptions in file format and ready photos in proper pixel dimensions, it's $5 for product description pasted into the system up to five hundred words and $5 per photo inputted, minimum ten products. Any photo that requires additional cropping and/or resizing will add $5 to the total. Text content inputting by hand is $15 per product, maximum average of hundred and fifty words per product, minimum ten products.

More About Ecommerce

If you are interested in ecommerce, I only design looks for either ProStores (US and Canada), WebStores by Amazon (US Only), or static websites with PayPal buttons or PayPal cart and optional inventory tracking. My design fees for ProStores and WebStores start at $2750, or $2000 for the static website under ten pages with PayPal options and under ten products.

I can design custom look for CubeCart, osCommerce and ZenCart, but only if you have these carts hosted elsewhere and supported by their own respective software developer or support professional—when it comes to ecommerce, I just want to stick to designing the looks. Please also note, I do not help with federal, provincial or state retail tax issues, retail license application processes or shipping fee calculations for your store items. Don't be suprised that you may have to administer the thing, respond to clients, ship items, answer phone and do some serious marketing. My design fees for CubeCart, osCommerce, ZenCart, and such start at $3500.

Web Design for Basic Content Management System

$3500

Custom design from scratch for a select content management system. Graphic design. Header. Footer. Common elements. Content inputting up to 2,000 words manually or up to 10,000 words through conversion and up to 40 images of content you provide. XHTML. CSS. Setup. Testing. Troubleshooting. Search engine submission. Hosting and maintenance is optional.

Organization Resource Website - Static

$4500

Custom web design for a resource website under fourty pages (or under 20,000 words and under 80 images) of content you provide. Custom graphic design. Style sheet. Header. Top menu. Side menu. Footer. Body. Layout. Indexer. Search box. Search results. Up to ten contact or other forms. Up to 40 links to PDF or DOC documents for download. Sitemap. XHTML. CSS. Basic optimization. Setup. Testing. Troubleshooting. Search engine submission. Managed hosting and content updates are optional. (Search script requires dynamic hosting unless you prefer a popular search engine based custom script integration.)

Organization Resource Website - CMS

$5500

A resource website for under fourty pages (or under 20,000 words and under 80 images) of content you provide. Custom web design. Custom graphic design. Style sheet. Header. Top menu. Side menu. Footer. Body. Layout. Up to ten contact forms. News links. Sitemap. XHTML. CSS. Basic optimization. Setup. Testing. Troubleshooting. Search engine submission. Dynamic hosting is required and can be provided for a fee.

(Content must be provided already organized into titles & headings in .doc (Word, AbiWord etc.), .rtf or .htm.)

Extras & Options

Photo Field Trip

Half-day of photo-taking, selection, post-processing, cropping and resizing for your website.
+$300

Writing

If you need some writing for a small project, you can have me work with you on your copy, that is, if anything on this website makes you feel confident about my writing skills.

+$0.50 per word +$45 per hour for interviewing or information gathering.

Or I can recommend a talented and widely published local professional or three to help you with wordsmithing the right words. You negotiate directly with her, him or them and when all's done, send me the text.

+$0.50 to $1.50 per word +$45 to $60 per hour for interviewing or information gathering.

Add Logo Redesign (Same concept new visual direction or simple refinement)

You provide current logo on paper or in a file.
+$325

Add Logo Design (If not already included)

You provide idea or concept on paper or in a file.
+$475

Add a Slide Show Script (If not already included)

+$250

Add a Photo Gallery Page (If not already included)

+$175

Add a News Scroll Script (If not already included)

+$250

Content Management Training (A walk-through)

One on one at your office. Three hours, before noon or after.
+$250

Add Search Script (Requires dynamic hosting)

Search script including indexer and search results template.
+$500

Add Google Custom Search (Google fees may apply)

Integration of the popular Google based custom search service & help with setting up the account.
+$200

Domain Name Registration (.ca, .com, .net, .org, .info, .us)

$20 annually

Managed Hosting, Static

•half-hour of my labour for content updates you request
•ten mailboxes with POP and webmail

$25 a month paid quarterly, semi-annually, or annually.

Managed Hosting, Static or Dynamic (for CMS or server side scripts)

•one hour for content updates you request
•twenty mailboxes with POP and webmail
•double the bandwidth and space

$45 a month paid semi-annually, or annually.

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