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WEBDESIGN SERVICE

How Much Does A Website Cost?

Like any design job, the cost of setting up a website can vary enormously.

Consultancy and Design

Unlike many other web companies, we do not offer "standard packages", where we charge a fixed price for designing a certain number of pages, or

a certain type of site. Our experience is that every customer's needs are different, and to fulfil these needs, the type and amount of work we do varies, even for quite similar sites.We charge in one of two ways - for our time ($100 per hour), or for the job (fixed budget, job rate per job).

Job Rates

If you have a fixed budget and want to work to a particular job-rate, we need to agree in advance exactly what the site will contain, and how the source material will be provided or generated (see 'Keeping Your Costs Down' below).

The most difficult aspect of working to a job-rate is the need to stick to what was agreed. If you have a brilliant idea after the specification has been agreed and the job has started, you may have to accept that you can't just implement your new idea unless we can review the budget. Sometimes, especially on larger projects, we will make changes or add features within the original budget, but generally a fixed price means a fixed specification.

This is where our experience really counts - we see it as our job to make sure that we cover every possible good idea in advance, at the planning stage. Once the schedule and budget is agreed, it should not need to change.

Day Rate Charges

Sometimes projects cannot be done on a job rate. Some customers just can't stop having new ideas and adding to the specification, and some sites require a large amount of graphic design work which is difficult to cost at its inception.

In these cases, we can work on a day-rate. This is usually set at $700 per day ($100 per hour), though it may change for different types of work, or depending on the duration of the project.

Keeping Your Costs Down

Often, the most time-consuming (and therefore expensive) part of the web design job is preparing the source material - the text and the pictures which make up the site content. Some customers have been surprised to find that we can have their website finished in less time, if they provide us with all the source material for their site in a sensible format.

But other customers have ended up paying us $100 per hour for copy-typing from their printed catalogues or brochures. Sometimes this is inevitable, but the more material you can provide in a computerized format, the less time it takes us to prepare it for web publication, and the less you have to pay.

Consulting $100 per hour. (NOK 700)

Design, maintain your website, $100 per hour, (NOK 700)

Copywriting, contact us for price

Budget & Payment For Job Rates

It depends on your needs what your website will cost. To help you figure out what your budget should be we have made a list. This is a guide, for you this might not be right. It could be less or much more, depending on your needs.

When we work on a job-rate budget this is how we get paid. The first 50% of the agreed payment must be paid ahead, before we start the job. The next 25% must be paid when the job is half done (you will be noticed), and the last 25 % must be paid within 10 days after the website is done.

-Very Small websites can cost from $1.200 (NOK 8.400) and up...