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Website Cost Calculator

How Much does a website cost?

You are wondering what a website costs.

Maybe you’ve gone through the ridiculous process of getting website bids and discovered that the amount a website costs is all over the place!

One time I had a request for proposal generate website bids between $350 and $40,000! Not even kidding!

So here I try to help you make sense of it all by giving you this quick website cost calculator!

Note: There are lots of things that affect the cost of websites from:

the value of local currency (it’s a lot cheaper to hire website labor in India)
the overhead of the business providing the bid (big agencies have to pay account people/project managers/marketing people/etc)
the business model of the business (value-based or hourly)

In this website cost calculator, I do my best to help you understand some of those costs.

Please email me with ideas & feedback!

Website Cost Calculator

Wondering how much a new website will cost?
Get an answer fast with our Website Cost Calculator!
Your quote will be calculated in real time based on your answers to the questions below...
LEGAL: Projects contain a lot of variables. This quote is intended as a rough estimate and is not to be used as a binding quote for any project.
How large is your organization?
- Mom & Pop small business, one decision maker
- Small to Medium sized business: 2 or more employees
- Corporation or Nonprofit Organization with a board
Business or nonprofit with a board
Price:
How many pages of content will be on the site?
These are pages like "About Us" or "Our Services" etc but also other pages like landing pages, call to action pages, and staff directories. You can always add/delete pages later, this is only used to get a rough count of how many pages we will be adding for you for launch.
- Just a few (up to 5-6)
- More than 5-6
Please estimate how many pages of content you will have
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Content
Base Price
Price: $0.00
The Design Process:
This is what your website will look like. The difference is how much time we will spend fine-tuning the look and feel of the site (apart from functionality). Regardless of your choice, your website will be custom for your business, attractive, and mobile-friendly/responsive to look good on all screen sizes.
How involved will the design process be?*
- Custom Rapid Design Process Ideal for most clients, especially those with relatively straightforward goals with their site. We will begin by meeting with you to gain and understanding of your wants/needs and preferences, and we will design and create a custom website which takes these into account. You will have the opportunity to provide input, but you will mostly be relying on our recommendations and judgement.
- Custom In-Depth Website Design Process: For serious websites, or individuals that have a specific design vision. During this phase we will spend extra time designing your website -- the visual theme, calls to action, and layout of elements on the pages. You will get to see detailed high-quality design mockups of what they key pages of your website will look like, and then we’ll iterate back and forth with changes based on your feedback until you love the design (generally requires one-to-two rounds of changes).
How many pages of content will there be? Quantity*
Price: $25.00
Add-ons and Functionality:
Home Page Design:
- Slider to highlight the most important things you want people to see/do while at your site
- Have the home page pull latest events, news, or any type of info such as products
- Separate sections to serve as springboards for the site content they are most likely to want
Home Page Extras
Basic Features
- Testimonials -- boost your credibility! We will display one on every page, plus one page that lists them all
- Appointment Scheduler (requires a third party service which may have their own fees)
- Event Calendar
- Photo Gallery (up to 15-20 images)
- Mailing list sign-up
- Optimize site for viewing in older browsers (recommended for those with clients in medical or corporate fields)
- Auto-post new blog posts to your social media accounts
- Staff Directory for less than 10 staff members - We will list your staff on one page
- Staff Directory for more than 10 staff members - Each staff member gets their own page with an extended bio, plus one page that lists them all.
Basic Features
Special Functionality
- Long Form (like a job application, or something like this form you are using right now) -- (cost may increase with complexity)
- Event Ticketing and Registration
- Memberships and/or members-only content
- Discussion Forum
- Allow users to narrow down their search by filtering by certain criteria. For example, a website with job postings allows visitors to narrow down their search by salary, location, and job type. (This price is subject to change depending on how many attributes you allow people to sort by)
- MegaMenu - For websites with a large number of pages or complex page structure - a mega-menu allows us to display your sub-pages in a visually attractive way, which makes it easy for users to find what they are looking for.
Special Functionality
E-Commerce:
What kind of e-commerce/shopping cart functionality do you need?
If you want to have people pay you money on your website (including paying invoices or making donations), this section is for you. This is the cost of setting up the shopping cart (not including adding products/images)
- Do not need a shopping cart
- Simple -- Good for just a few products. No shipping calculations or product categories.
- Full-featured Shopping Cart -- Good for larger stores. Features product categories, robust shipping calculations and discount codes; Many optional add-ons available for additional features
How many products will you sell in your store?
Note: if you have more than 100 products, just enter 100.
Set up products/images
Price: $0.00
Hosting and Maintenance
Wordpress periodically needs to be updated when new software is released. Who will perform this maintenance?
Hosting and Maintenance
This is billed separately once per year.
- Ongoing Hack Protection, Security, Website Content Updates, Software Maintenance -- Have WizzyWig host your website on our high-quality servers, and perform ongoing maintenance, security and support.
  Includes performance of regular Wordpress software and plugin updates, extra optimization to your site for security and performance, and daily cloud-stored backups, to protect you (and recover) from potential disaster. Also includes support, to be on hand as your “technical officer” for questions and website support requests. Minor text, image, and other content updates taking less than 5 minutes are included free -- just email/call, and we’ll take care of it!
- I have my own third party host, and I will perform all Wordpress software updates and make regular off-site backups myself. I will set up and use my own plugin licenses to keep premium plugins up to date, and if something breaks, I know how to troubleshoot or if needed, restore from a backup to recover from disaster.
Hosting and Maintenance
Web Content and Performance
Help with your site's content
Price:
Get help with your site's content
- Web Copy-Editing: You provide us with first draft copy and images for all your web pages (board bios, history/about info, contact, etc), and we will polish up the writing to so that it meets people’s expectations for the web. If you need help writing the first drafts of any web pages , we will recommend a copywriter who can write this content from scratch. (That more in-depth copywriting scenario is not included in this estimate.)
- Photos and images: A good website needs to have pictures and images for visual interest. If you are not able to provide images, we can help you select high-quality photos/artwork to help communicate what your organization is all about, and place those images strategically throughout the website. (the cost of the stock photos themselves is not included here; those usually are around $5-$10 a piece, though we can also recommend some sources of free images)
Search Engine Optimization & Data Performance:
- Submit the website to various search engine crawlers so that you appear in search results, and setting up website tracking (Google Analytics) so you can monitor site performance with visitors. We will also add your organization to Google Business so that you appear on the Google map. (This does not include any work to guarantee first-page placement on Google search results. If needed, we are happy to recommend a third party SEO-Marketing specialist to help you with that)
- No SEO work
Branding
Do you have a logo already (that you like)?*
- Yes I have a logo that I like
- No I don't have a logo that I like
Should we design a logo for you?
Your new website will be most effective if you have a good logo/branding.
- Custom designed logo for your brand or business (includes at least 4 unique ideas and up to 2 rounds of revisions). We will begin by understanding your organization’s goals, mission, and users, and identify your preferences when it comes to your logo/branding (and subsequent website) design. The final deliverable will consist of vector-based artwork for print, raster (pixel) based artwork for on-screen, as well as a written style guide.
- I do not have and do not want a logo. I understand that my website will be less effective this way.
Total
$0.00
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