What Does Website Design Involve?
We can build websites to include different features such as opportunities for clients to subscribe to your email list, include social media plugins like Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter or provide online credit card payments for advertised products or services.
As a rule, the more pages the website, the more the design will cost. However, there is now a lot of software available that allows us to build advanced websites more cheaply than in the early days of web design. Here’s a few guidelines for some common website design costs.
Graphic Design
Website graphics are usually the first step on the way to building your website. The cost of web graphics will vary depending on the type of website and amount of graphic content. A basic graphic design only accounts for a small part of the overall website cost, whereas a fully animated website could be more expensive.
Copy writing
Often, you will already have “copy” you’ve prepared for brochures, advertising or flyers that can be used in the website design. You can save money by writing the website copy yourself but if you are stretched for time, consider asking us to write your website copy for you. Good website copy can make your internet marketing more effective and more profitable.
Design Plan
Preparing a plan for your website design will help the project run closer to your expectations leaving us to construct your website by installing software, design the menus as well as incorporate the graphic design and copywriting into your web pages. It could include special features such as a content manager, online shopping carts, social media plugins and other tools such as RSS (Rich Site Summary) feeds and email marketing that enable clients to stay easily informed with regular changes in your organization.
Content Managed Website Design
We specialize in content managed websites using software that enables you to update your web pages without assistance from your web designer thus saving ongoing costs. This can still include special features such as a content manager, online shopping carts, social media plugins and other tools such as RSS feeds (that include blogs, newsletters, workshop events) and email marketing.
Mobile-Friendly Website Design
As more people use smartphones to browse the internet online, it is important for websites to be easily used on a mobile device. We can convert existing websites to be mobile friendly or create websites that work well on mobile devices.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEO is the difference between being on page one or page ten of a Google search. We usually carry out on-site SEO as part of the website cost.
Minimizing Your Website Design Cost
The more prepared you are, the more effectively your web designer will be able to help you. No preparation means more work for the designer and more cost for you. If you know what pages you want, have an idea of layout and colours and can provide some text and quality photographs, your website cost can be reduced significantly.