How Much Would A Website Like This Cost?

The site seems to have a few special effects on it, but in my honest opinion I do not believe that you would need to spend even 7,000 to get a site like that.

Personally I believe that there are several developers on this forum who would gladly tackle your project for much less money than what you have been told.

I unfortunately cannot develop wordpress cms type sites, I sure can manipulate them though, graphics and all, but developing from scratch is one of my future goals.

I plan on getting to the point of not only being able to manipulate and do all custom graphics but being able to develop wordpress sites.

I have built my share of sites so far, but nothing too technically challenging, my area of expertise right now is more along the lines of mini-sites, landing pages, squeeze pages, video squeeze pages and custom graphics plus using already developed WP blog themes to design websites.

The little tricks that you like and the graphics on that site are really where the most work will be, because in order to get a fullscale site that looks visually appealing with all the elements and colors and graphics takes some pre-planning for sure. You should already know what you want it to look like exactly before you start that way the coder can code to accomodate your design idea.

Of course the above is just my opinion but I think most people will agree that 15,000 is out of the ballpark, not that people do not charge that much and get it, but that you can get it for less if you know the right people and where to look and I think you are in the right place for that.

I would make sure that you get someone that has a good reputation on this forum and someone whom people would recommend.

I do know a wordpress developer who has a great reputation on this forum, if you would like to know who, please P.M. me and I will give you their user name and you can contact them personally. Believe me this person is extremely good at developing wordpress sites and with programming of all sorts which is what you want in a developer.......

Hey Nancy,
we can help you out with very reasonable price..pls pm me

Hi guys, thanks so much for the responses! As I just joined (have been lurking for months but had no reason to post before this-- what a great community full of knowledgeable and helpful people!), I don't have the ability to send PMs yet, but I'd love to talk to you about this further. Please PM me with another way to get in touch with you and we'll go from there. (EWGQDD, I did get your PM and emailed you in response, thank you!)

I'm rather relieved to hear that my instincts were right on this one.

Pure flash websites fail for 3 main reasons,
- they are hard to update
- they are aweful for seo.
- flash support is terrible on mobiles phones, 1 in 4 website visitors nowadays accesses by a mobile device.

Most companies make the mistake of thinking that a website is simply the internet version of their traditional offline marketing.

6 Key Things

1. Some of the real opportunities the internet offers are:
- constructing a business asset
- collaboration tool
- having a conversation & tracking it
- providing a relevant timely message to the visitor
- branding
- establishing and demonstrating your expertise
- testing message to market match

2. Cost of having website created is no indication of what it will cost you to own that website.
- lots of people host their datafiles on amazons s3 service for file storage however lots of those people forget to actually lockdown access so anyone can get access to anything stored in their bucket.
- people allow the domain name of the website to be purchased by someone other than themselves. The domain name is a vital business asset which you should have control of.

3. CMS's are not all created equal.
- Once you leave something open source & popular like drupal, wordpress or joomla for something that is bespoke you encounter some real issues the most common of which:
- your data is not easily moved to another CMS
- security fixes are not readily available
- often designed with the idea that you have a dedicated technical savvy person on staff to keep it up and running.

4. Just because you have a website does not mean you will get a return on investment from it
5. Most websites are not adequately backed up
6. Performance of the web host and the server which runs your website is important.
- googles search results order is determined in part by how quickly a website loads
- website being down for extended periods of time
- the more stuff a webpage actually does put mores load on the server which hosts the site, if the server is a shared hosted type you can easily break the website simply because the webpage is not rendered to the viewer in time before things start timing out.

If you wish to build a asset for the business then give me a PM i can email you a questionaire i use with my clients to help focus on getting a website asset created.

Roger

PM sent or you can just send me a email to address on my profile page

Something i did miss in my list which i blame on it being 4am when i typed it was consider the users.

Different users have different needs its vital to design something that works with the user and not against them

Roger

Fairly simple site, as has been stated it's a really bad idea to build a site in all-flash, but a very similar site could easily be built with good ol' HTML and CSS (with some Jquery for the effects). Unless I'm missing something huge about the functionality, it seems like a relatively simple site. If I built something like this it would probably be around $2000.

If you're referring to me, I did just sign up today, I'm not trying to get you to hire me, I don't have much time at the moment anyway. Just trying to answer your question the best way I know how, as far as I can see I don't see anything that would cost $14,000 or anywhere near it.

I could also be missing some major functionality but to me it looks like a basic information site with a contact form?

Thanks, Steve, I will definitely keep that in mind, as this is a highly knowledgeable group and any advice I've received here so far (via lurking) has been tremendously helpful. (I found you all because I was looking for reviews on the various press release distribution sites. What I learned here saved me a huge amount of time and got me a key trade publication placement for one of my press releases. I hope to return the favor by posting the results of a little study I'm doing on how effective each one of them is after I've tried each one that was recommended here.)

From what I've seen, there's no reason for a site like this to cost $15,000 unless you like throwing money out the window (or I'm seriously missing something). I don't even understand why the company made a Flash site that looks like a WordPress site. Interesting choice. At any rate, you can get something really comparable from $1500 to about $3500 depending on what other skills the company you hire has such as SEO, social media branding, etc.

Well, building a website is really expensive so must be ready or prepared financially.

i am try but this time no idea in my mind may be as soon as possible i have some good suggestion.

Nancy, I can help, email me, I will send my portfolio. Thanks.

Hey Nancy,
Re: Would this cost $15,000? YES, or even more. I have seen US web firms charging $30,000 for a less basic 5 pages website.

Do you need to pay that amount to have it done? NO.

My point here is that you are a third-party company providing marketing (I'm doing marketing… for a startup company), so if you are looking to profit too, $15,000 is definitely on the spot. You can have it done by around $7,500 and still make a 50% profit.

Are you ripping them off? Hell no. Send some RFPs (request for proposal) to some established US web firms and you will see that $15,000 is actually low.

If you’re not looking to profit, then $7,500 would be the average price a good web firm will charge to provide you with a unique design, CMS, blog, two languages and good lifetime support.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Harrison