Hi all,

can you guess the cost of this website?

http://www.gillingdod.com/

I might add it wasn't done by myself but some friends of mine who are professional web designers.

I am doing this as an experiment to see what peoples perception of web design as costs are, and try to explain why some sites cost a lot and others don't.

no idea whatsoever ...guestimate £2250.00


ambx

Will let you know once some more posts have been recieved....

i just got hubby to have a look as he is an IT master enginear and he also designs web sites (hes so busy doing sites for everyone else im still waiting for mine, lol,) im waiting to see if he gets back to me with a guess as to howmuch it cost, is that cheeting geting hubby to tell me??

It depends how good you hubby is doesn't it lol....All answers from whoever are equally welcome....

The price of the domain name/registration and nothing else

Don't have a clue! Its not what I think of when I visit a website. I find ease of use more important factor when looking on the web.
Would be interesting to find out tho!
I mean my website only cost me £8.00 inc vat!

he is very very good, he just mailed me to say he doesnt think it cost very much at all but it would vary as to what you paid etc for graphix if they are copyrite and so on but he will have a beter look when hes not so busy

this is more or less the same as hubby has said, i dont have a clue with web sites etc,

Most companies I go to are thinking of their corporate image, If you look at your website as your shop front you have to get customers inside your door first before you can show them your goods. If your shop looks tatty/run down then chances are they may decide to shop next door (hope I am making sense).

Its not just down to ease of use/navigation etc (although it certainly helps), if you give your customers the confidence to step into your shop in the first place you are on to a winning formula.

Some of my clients appear to be much larger businesses online merely because of how their website looks. If a business is perceived to be large and successful then the customer is more inclined to buy/visit that business.

Still no-one close to the answer.....

Id say circa £300. I only quickly browsed the flash site, but bailed when the news section (which hadnt been updated for 9 months) went buggy.

The figure though - totally depends. Everything appears to be static (ie no backend to draw info from) and the look and feel is pretty template like.
At the end of the day I could see someone paying £100 - £1000 depending on their budget and tech savvy-ness.

Just my 2 cents

I think it's a bit 'how long is this piece of string' Techygeek.......

Husband is subscribed to Swishmax and there are hundreds of free templates on there of a similar calibre to that (and better and worse!) and there are loads of others to buy, and prices range from $10 upwards

Rough guess:
Domain name £5
Hosting (12 months - depending on web site size of course) £100
Web designers time - 2 days - if given all the pictures etc. in the right format - Again dependant on designers experience & costs, but I would pay no more than £250

£355 ish

Trin
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Sam way out M8....I think you will all be shocked at the final answer.....

Oh look at that......Me & GMG in the same ball park