Website cost calculator

Creating a Sitemap - First Step In Getting Your Website Cost Estimate

A well-designed website should have a goal and a purpose.  A sitemap clarifies your site's goals before you start designing or creating content.  This is a crucial step in planning any website, by deciding precisely what you want from your site and then mapping it out, reinforcing your goals, and creating a website that becomes embedded in the sales process.  During the development of your sitemap, we research competitive sites (helps with SEO and PPC), identify technologies to add to your website, and what type of content needs to be developed.  For a small website, you can leave this a "zero."  Most small business sites (10 pages or so) select 1.  Complex sites that draw a lot of traffic (2-3) or if you are spending a lot of marketing dollars to drive traffic more planning and competitive research might be required (4).

Graphic Artist

Graphic designers can combine text, graphics, and business acumen to inform, persuade, direct, organize, entertain, and attract attention with their designs. They are combining art and technology to communicate a message. They do this through the strategic placement of images and text. Most websites with less than 20 pages require only a mock-up of the homepage and interior page. Sites with more than 20 pages will likely need category pages to aid with navigation.

Number of Pages

A standard 10-page website package includes ten pages at no additional cost, but as the number of pages increases, so does time needed to manage the content.  The other work includes: further testing, spell checking, navigation, menus, and necessary template changes — how much extra will that cost? A good rule of thumb is to add about $95/page for each page over and above what’s included in the standard website package. Every situation is different but at least you will have a reasonable cost estimate based on common pricing.

Programming Your Site

We are fortunate to have a great team of developers. Our development team might need to invest just a few hours of time or many more, depending on your site.

Stock Templates: WordPress offers many pre-made themes that serve to be useful universally for companies. Stock templates, while limited, can be effective, efficient, and adaptable for some design needs. You would need between 8-12 hours of programming time on average.
Semi-custom Themes: Pretty much anything can go anywhere and look like whatever you want. This requires a few more steps and planning than a stock template to incorporate your business’ design preferences, business intentions, user flow, and so on. 95% of sites we design are semi-custom. In general, you can expect 25-40 hours of programming.

We also provide programming services for JAVA, Python, Ruby, SQL, and others.

Miscellaneous Add-ons for your website estimate

Any software that is an add-on or sometimes referred to as an "extension" is any third-party software program or script (code snippet) added to your website to give it additional features and abilities.  The following add-ons provide layers of site protection and usage information and help gather leads essential to having a well-rounded and valuable website.  For 90% of all websites, the basic installation is more than adequate.  Of course, more advanced versions of these add-ons are available for high-traffic sites, mission-critical web applications, and will command a higher price to install and set up, and some may require small monthly fees.