The cost of creating a website

How much does a website cost? It all depends on the tasks set for the website, the target audience, the theme of the site, the software, the volume, and the quality of its content. The price also depends on whether you need a standard site or a completely exclusive project.

What determines the price of website creation?

1. Development of the website concept.

Before starting the website creation process and determining its cost, it is essential to think through the concept of the future site. If this is not done, the resulting resource will not represent a unified and organic product. As a result of a poorly developed website concept, you may end up with just a set of pages that will not attract any interest from the target audience.

Developing a website concept involves finding an idea that expresses individuality and highlights characteristic features. A well-developed website concept makes it unlike other similar thematic resources.

Finding a new idea often takes a lot of time, so the cost of developing the website concept is included in the overall cost of website creation.

2. Website design development.

The cost of good website design is quite high and depends on the amount of time spent by the web studio on design development, approval of the final version with the client, and design optimization. The more time spent on final design approval, the more expensive the design will be.

If you want your site to be unique, easily recognizable, and reflect your company’s corporate style, order a custom website design. It will be specifically developed for you using branded styles and other individual elements. The cost of a custom design is about 40% of the project cost.

An economical option for website design is a template design. By incorporating elements of your corporate identity into the design, a template design can become quite interesting. The cost of a template design is relatively low and is used for sites with a small budget.

3. Website programming.

Website programming ties the website design and its functional components together. Programming includes adapting the site layout for all popular browsers and monitor resolutions, installing the content management system, and writing additional modules and functions necessary to solve the client’s business tasks. This is the most complex and responsible stage in website creation.

In today’s virtual space, there are many browsers that users use to view websites. The most popular are: Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari. Each browser displays a page presented in HTML format differently.

The task of the developer is to code the pages with the design so that they are displayed consistently across all popular web browsers and on monitors with various resolutions and sizes, from large screens to tablets and smartphones.

The cost of website creation depends on the required functionality. Additional modules can be standard, commonly found on various websites, or individual. Standard modules include product catalogs, forums, blogs, news feeds, etc. They usually come with a CMS. Individual modules (such as product and service calculators, modeling and visualization systems) are developed specifically for each project.

4. Information filling.

Information filling is a necessary part of website promotion work. For proper completion of meta tags and ALT and TITLE parameters of objects that will be placed on the website’s pages, one needs HTML programming skills, experience working with CMS, and knowledge of internal website optimization. Content filling is relatively tedious and low-paid work, but mistakes made while placing articles can cost several positions in search engine results for key queries.

5. Testing and deployment.

The cost of website creation includes the fees for domain registration and hosting. The platform where your site will be hosted directly affects site traffic and the quality of its functioning. Quality and reliable hosting will ensure the uninterrupted operation of your newly created resource.