Web design fees

Sample fees for simple design projects

Approximate web design fees for clean simple sites start as follows: under 10 pages - $1750, under 15 pages - $2000, under 20 pages - $2250. Custom design for client-updateable websites based on popular proprietary or free/open-source content management systems - $3000 (add $500 for each 10 pages of content you provide for inputting - count one page as approximately 250 words and two images on average; inputting text by hand is double that rate ).

Photos

Half-day of taking photos for your website - add $300. The five hours include time for photo-taking, getting there and back, and for selection, post-processing, cropping and resizing of images for your website. Add $75 for each 100 kilometers out of London or each additional hour taking photos.

Text

If you need text for your website, we can refer you to local professionals, writers and editors, who would be glad to help, or we can work with you on website text for around $0.50 per word if you are willing to put in the time and the necessary information in required detail in person or on the phone within agreed timeframe and during our business hours.

Options

Optional forum with basic visual integration - add $500. Optional event calendar with basic visual integration - add $500. Google Calendar integration - add $100. Help with creating PayPal buttons and with setting up inventory tracking and alerts, $250 per visit; usually one visit is enough.

Stock photos

Stock photo license fees range from less than five dollars each for royalty-free use on your website to several hudred dollars or more, depending on quality and your preference, but add $25 per image for our labour finding, purchasing, and processing each one. Alternatively, provide your own photos, buy your own stock images, hire a photographer or take advantage of our semi-professional photo services.

Videos

If you need videos, we keep in touch with local videographers but also less affordable but talented independent movie directors and television professionals. You hire them, send us the videos, and add $50 for posting each video on your website. Alternatively, upload your videos to YouTube or Vimeo by yourself, and we won't charge you a thing for embedding a few on your site.

Client-updateable product catalogues, ecommerce

Updateable product catalogues start at $3000 - including inputting of up to 20 products; product photos are extra unless you provide them - $20 per product photo right here in our light tent or $20 per product on location, with a $200 minimum per session. If you need product descriptions written up, I know professionals that may be able to work with you on those for a fee. Extra product inputting is $250 per 20 products, up to two images and 150 words per product on average.

If you are interested in ecommerce, we 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. Our 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.

When it comes to ecommerce, we just want to stick to designing the looks. Although, we can design custom look for popular systems such CubeCart, osCommerce and ZenCart, we will only do so if you have these carts hosted and supported elsewhere. Please also note we do not help with federal, provincial or state retail tax issues, retail license application processes or shipping fee calculations for your store items. While the respective cart systems may have modules that help set up tax rates and shipping options, don't be suprised that you have to administer or have someone administer the cart, respond to clients, ship items, answer phone and do some serious marketing. Our design fees for CubeCart, osCommerce, ZenCart, and such start at $3500.

Time Frame

Generally it takes as many working days to have the sites ready as there are pages but add time for consultation, concept selection and revision period. Straightforward projects usually end up taking four to five weeks. Content management systems take longer. Your ability to provide the materials necessary is often the key factor. We can put up a one page business card website to have something up in the meantime. All work to be done and due dates are specified in writing, and after you make up your mind to go with us on the project, we take 40% up front upon signing.

Other fees

Domain Registrations

Domain name registrations are $20 a year per domain for .com .ca .net .org .biz .us. Other TLDs are also available. We register domains through eNom.

Full-service Managed Hosting

Full-service hosting with us is $25 a month and includes half-hour time per month for content updates and such. Full-service managed hosting for dynamic websites is $45 a month and includes one-hour of time per month for content updates and maintenance. See hosting plans for details.

You are always free to take your site elsewhere at anytime. We never lock your domain names unless you request us to do so. Just make sure to allow two months between domain name registrations, renewals and transfers.

Hosting for Dynamic Websites

Dynamic sites such as user updateable websites, forums and online product catalogues require additional server resources and therefore dynamic hosting accounts. Depending on your privacy and security requirements, they may also require additional security options. Please see our hosting plans for details.

Email addresses

Ten mailboxes are included with the $25 managed web hosting and content updates account. The $45 hosting accounts include twenty mailboxes. We can manually set up your email addresses at your domain for you, or we can set up an administrative account and let you set up and manage all the addresses by yourself.