How much does a Website Cost?

Igor Golovachenko
Nov 6 · 3 min read

If you are looking for an answer to this kind of question, it means that the time has come and you need to represent yourself, your company or product in the Digital space.

Design by Oleg Makhno

“How much does a website cost?” — the question is so “wide”, now I will explain why!
Suppose you decided to buy a used car, came to a car dealership and ask a consultant: “How much does a car cost?”

What do you think will happen next?

That’s right! The consultant will start asking clarifying questions:

  1. What brand and model?
  2. What year of production?
  3. Engine volume?
  4. Is mileage important?
  5. Leather or velor?
  6. Etc…

As a result, at your request, the consultant will be able to check the availability of the required car and in case of coincidence in important parameters, tell you the starting price from which you can try to start bargaining.

With the answer to the question “How much does it cost to develop a website?” the situation is similar!

You have decided that you will work with a digital and design agency, have analyzed various options or know for sure that you want to work with a specific agency, left your contact details name, email, phone, skype (the more the better), and look forward to contacting you.

As in the case of a car dealership, Sales Manager answers you, or a Business Development Manager (in simple words, a consultant) and to the question “How much does a website cost?” he will not be able to give you an exact answer without specifying questions such as:

  1. What is your industry and what do you do?
  2. What kind of website? (Landing Page (One-page website), Corporate website, E-commerce, Web-application …)
  3. What is the structure of the website? (number of blocks, screens, pages and their interaction, site logic)
  4. What integration with third-party services do you want?
  5. Calculators, constructors that you want to develop and build into the website?
  6. What kind of design would you like? (Style, animation, illustrations, photos) To answer this question, you can prepare References — this is a collection of what you like or don’t like in other websites, websites of direct competitors and those websites that you are inspired by.
  7. Your competitors?
  8. CMS or Framework and which one?
  9. Etc….

Only after a detailed communication with you, preferably through video communication, the consultant can proceed to the evaluation phase of your request.

What is the evaluation stage?

The evaluation stage implies that the consultant will assemble a group of Designers, Front-end and Back-end developers or developers, will tell them in detail about your project and ask them to make some time estimations to complete this kind of project, if the team appears additional questions, then the consultant will ask them to you.

Based on the data received from the team, the consultant can calculate the project budget and present it to you in the form of a commercial offer.

What else can affect the cost of developing a website?

The level of digital and agency design can directly affect the cost of a website.

If the agency has impressive experience in website development and brand creating, the highest level of customer satisfaction, as well as the company can boast of international awards in the field of design and development, be prepared for relevant hourly rates.

If we talk about the web development market as a whole, then there is a certain gradation of prices for a particular type of service:

  • Landing Page
  • Corporate website
  • Catalog site
  • E-commerce

As you can see, regardless of your budget, the market can offer several options for solving your website issue.

About what else affects the cost of developing websites — read in future articles.

Need a website, want to know how much does it cost?

Digital and Design Agency Nextpage will be happy to help you with this issue, write to igor.g@nextpage.agency

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