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I'm geting a local company to do a website for me and I was wanting to know if they are quoting a fair price.

Layout design process and template build £840+vat
CMS install and set up £560+vat
Annual training and support package (per person, per annum) £150+vat
Annual Business hosting £175+vat
Search engine optomisation (optional)
Initial optomisation including homepage and keyword analysis £200+vat

in total I want 9 pages which will be text and pictures with a reply form and I would like to be able to update it without the need to go back to the web site designer.

I thought it was a bit on the steep side and have knocked them down to £1100+vat for the layout & design and CMS install.
 
I assume your not comfortable with web development yourself, but if you have any friends that are they would have no problem using some open source scripts and whip you up a CMS suitable for your needs.

Can you provide any further details on your needs as a website? What is it for? What traffic do you expect? £175 sounds a lot for hosting. How much is the SEO? You will want that. The site should be designed initially with SEO in mind tbh.

For 9 pages it does sound like quite a bit, but database/CMS skills do pump up the price.
 
Whether it's expensive or not depends on how good they are, and how important the web site is to your business.

You can probably get a friend of a friend or a freelance designer/developer to set you up with something perfectly good for £300-500 initially, and then arrange for your own hosting. :)
 
I have a similar website for my care home which is www.laurelscarehome.co.uk and we are expanding into home home care.

I've pulled some stats from my hosting company and we get anywhere between 10 and 35 unique visits per day in September and between 14 and 76 page views for my care home website. The home care website will look totally different to the care home and will be 9 pages. I dont know how much traffic to expect but I would imagine it will be more than the care home website.

Could you give me a little explanation of what SEO is or point me in the right direction of further infor on SEO.

cheers.
 
daz said:
Whether it's expensive or not depends on how good they are, and how important the web site is to your business.

You can probably get a friend of a friend or a freelance designer/developer to set you up with something perfectly good for £300-500 initially, and then arrange for your own hosting. :)
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I've already asked them about hosting as I thought that was expensive, i'm currently using 1and1 to host my existing website and also to host sharepoint.

I did menton that i already have the hosting the guy said if their was problem with the hosting then I would have to sort it out. But if I went with them then i would have peace of mind that one company was handling everything.

They do seem like a reputable company and their portfolio looks good, they designed and manage our city council website and have won awards for their work. It maybe that I dont realide how much this can cost but money is hard earned and easily spent and I like to stretch it as much as possible. Having said that I know that I must get my website and corporate image spot on and this does cost.
 
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I did menton that i already have the hosting the guy said if their was problem with the hosting then I would have to sort it out. But if I went with them then i would have peace of mind that one company was handling everything.
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They'll probably have a reseller or a managed server with some other company... find out who that other company is, and see whether they're reliable. :)

Alternatively, post the company on here and I think people will be able to look at their portfolio and tell you whether the examples of their work justify the price.
 
wnb said:
I'm geting a local company to do a website for me and I was wanting to know if they are quoting a fair price.

Layout design process and template build £840+vat
CMS install and set up £560+vat
Annual training and support package (per person, per annum) £150+vat
Annual Business hosting £175+vat
Search engine optomisation (optional)
Initial optomisation including homepage and keyword analysis £200+vat

in total I want 9 pages which will be text and pictures with a reply form and I would like to be able to update it without the need to go back to the web site designer.

I thought it was a bit on the steep side and have knocked them down to £1100+vat for the layout & design and CMS install.
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What's the CMS?

and

What does annual training mean, per person?
 
wnb said:
the company is called hydrant which is at www.hydrant.co.uk . eamples of their work are:

www.carlisle.gov.uk
www.cass-cumbria.co.uk
www.system-group.com
www.thecumbrianetwork.co.uk
www.edenha.org.uk
www.creativefuturescumbria.org
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It looks to me like they're simply templating Drupal so theoretically the whole CMS side of things if they're already charging you for templates should be free as it's already built in. Also, they're not that good design wise, there are plenty of other companies you should probably get quotes from instead.
 
Their site is really nice I think, but yeah agreed with some of the peeps already some of the clients sites have got rough edges to them.
 
Without even looking at the code of those sites most of them have at least 1 major design flaw or amateurish element to them.

However, for £1k you're not going to get much better unless you knock on the door of a one man band.
 
If it's Drupal, a really good CMS, then I reckon that's a fair rate, probably on the cheap side of things.

Installing a CMS is very straightforward it's the customisation that takes time.
 
Meh, they aren't great - their own site looks a lot nicer than their client ones which indicates they don't have that much pride in their work.

Having said that, for the money it seems fair. Your budget is right at the bottom of the market. Most agencies will have a day rate of between £300 and £700 a day, so looking at it like that you're getting about 4 days work for your money, so you're not going to be getting anything all that great.

Problem is your budget is falling down the cracks between a good freelancer and a low quality agency. Most decent agencies wouldn't touch a project with such a low budget - account management alone would use most of it up.

You'd get better value for money finding a good freelancer, (even then you'd be pushed finding a quality one that will do a CMS driven site for less than a couple of grand) but then you have issues with reliability and contactability etc, but you pays your money and takes your choice.
 
gord said:
I assume your not comfortable with web development yourself, but if you have any friends that are they would have no problem using some open source scripts and whip you up a CMS suitable for your needs.

Can you provide any further details on your needs as a website? What is it for? What traffic do you expect? £175 sounds a lot for hosting. How much is the SEO? You will want that. The site should be designed initially with SEO in mind tbh.

For 9 pages it does sound like quite a bit, but database/CMS skills do pump up the price.
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Yer that actually my first thought, for close to £900 for the basic layout/design SEO should be designed with that in mind, not as an option.

What are you getting exactly for 'business' hosting, as £175 sounds expensive.
 
suarve said:
Yer that actually my first thought, for close to £900 for the basic layout/design SEO should be designed with that in mind, not as an option.

What are you getting exactly for 'business' hosting, as £175 sounds expensive.
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I dont have any details for business hosting, i've googled another companycalled Webcreationsuk. They seem to be big and say they have 3.5k customers, I have been quoted 895+vat layoutn & design, CMS, search engine optomisation etc. They are cheaper than Hydrant but they are based nowhere near me so all contact would have to be done via phone and email.
 
wnb said:
I dont have any details for business hosting, i've googled another companycalled Webcreationsuk. They seem to be big and say they have 3.5k customers, I have been quoted 895+vat layoutn & design, CMS, search engine optomisation etc. They are cheaper than Hydrant but they are based nowhere near me so all contact would have to be done via phone and email.
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That's definetly moving to the cheap end of things.

You know what they say about cheap though. It's probably a Dreamweaver template build.
 
Thanks for the replys. I'm more confused tha ever! I'm going to look at my budget and get another price locally so I'm comparing like for like.
 
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