How Much Should I Pay for Website Design?

In this industry, you may as well ask - how long is a piece of string? There are so many factors involved.

You will see prices from a couple of hundred pounds, to the other extreme of tens of thousands of pounds.

Here are just some of the elements that will make one quote more expensive than another:

• Large Site vs Small Site
• Custom Design vs Template Design
• Enhanced or Customised Template vs Basic Template Design
• Feature Rich Static Site vs Basic Static Site
• Dynamic Database Driven website vs Static Website
• E-commerce enabled vs Static Website
• Custom Graphics vs Client Supplied Images
• Copywriting (full or Partial) vs Customer compiled copy
• Custom Meta-Tags on every page vs None, duplicate or minimal
• Extras (eg custom Favicon, email address obfuscation etc) vs No Extras
• Site Visits vs Remote Working
• Standards based vs Anything else
• Accessible website vs  Anything else
• Satisfaction Promises vs Anything else
• SEO package vs No SEO package
• SEM package vs No SEM package
• Link Building package vs No Link Building package
• Hand Search Engine / Directory submission vs None or automated
• Highly skilled Designer / Developer vs Hobbyist or New start-up

For a ball bark figure, you might expect to pay between £1500 and £2800 for a good;

• Standards based
• Accessible
• 10-15 page
• Feature rich
• Custom static design

 with

•  Extras
• Custom meta-tags on every page
• Hand submission to major directories and search engines.

from a quality designer/developer.