Sams Blog

So far I have only really talked about ServWise and our affordable hosting packages. But this time I want to discuss the Web Design business (My other favourite topic) and specifically the subject of “How much should I expect to pay for a new website?“.

Many people ask me this question, and more than often I am surprise at the perception people have about how little it should cost to produce a professional corporate website. In part I think this is down to the prominent advertising of free or cheap web design systems that give the impression that all web design is easy and takes only minutes.

These systems will generally use pre-programmed templates that in many cases will look quite professional, but you have to remember that you are not buying a personal design, its probably being used by 100’s if not 1000’s of other websites and will be very limited in the amount of customisation you can make.

So in an effort to educate and inform I’ve listed a few example price ranges that I beleave are fare for the most common types of website systems for the typical SME business based on the many years experience that I have had producing high quality web site solutions for these types of client.

Basic website with a pre-made design
Example Technologies : xhtml, css
Pages : 5-10 A4 sized pages.
Price : £200-£500

Basic website with a bespoke design
Example Technologies : xhtml, css
Pages : 5-10 A4 sized pages.
Price : £400-£800

Medium sized website with a bespoke design and features like drop-down menus using javascript (dhtml)
Example Technologies : xhtml, css2, javascript (dhtml)
Pages : 20-30 A4 sized pages.
Price : £700-£1500

CMS (Content management system) driven website using an off the shelf open-source CMS and incorporating a bespoke template design
Example Technologies : SQL, php, xhtml, css, javascript
Pages : Unlimited via CMS
Price : £1200-£2000

CMS (Content management system) driven website using an off the shelf open-source CMS and incorporating a bespoke template design and including eCommerce
Example Technologies : SQL, php, xhtml, css, javascript
Pages / products :Unlimited via CMS
Price : £3000-£5000

Bespoke CMS (Content management system) driven website incorporating a bespoke template design
Example Technologies : SQL, php, xhtml, css, javascript
Pages / products : Unlimited via CMS
Price : £6000-£10000

Bespoke CMS (Content management system) driven website incorporating a bespoke template design including eCommerce
Example Technologies : SQL, php, xhtml, css, javascript
Pages / products : Unlimited via CMS
Price : £8000 and above

As with any competitive market you are likely to get prices ranging wildly based on by who and where the work is done, however the prices listed are what I would say in the UK should get your a fairly decent website. Don’t expect to get a Facebook or Amazon for those prices though.

Anyway that’s all for this post, I hope it provides some valuable information and for those looking for a new website and don’t forget to ask for a FREE quote at WiredEyes.com

back soon.

Okay so I’m more lazy about my blog than anyone I know, Only one post and then my next post is 6 months later. Guess it just goes to show how busy I am, starting a new business from scratch is always a time consuming effort. Anyway I’m back now and hopefully my next post won’t be in another 6 months time. (Although at least it would be consistent)

Anyway so what has happened in the last 6 months. Well we’ve added lots of nice new features to our service offerings, many more cheap as chips domain names  and We’ve increased our “Novice” plan space by a massive 300% to a generous 100MB which you can buy for less than a (Family size ) can of beans.

We’ve upgraded our DotNetPanel Control panel to include some great new reseller features, including full reseller ecommerce so you can literally become a fully blown Hosting company with all the trimmings for only about the price of a medium deep pan pizza per month.

Now your asking why am I comparing our prices to basic food items. Well apart from liking food a lot and living in Italy so obviously liking pizza, quite honestly it’s easier than listing our prices in all 4 currencies that we offer them in. Plus you see just how inexpensive our services are in comparison to common everyday things you really understand the cost off. Anyway it works for me.

In the near future you can expect to find some great deals on SSL certificates and dedicated servers all available at really great prices, for which I’ll find food items to compare them with later.

Anyway thats all I’ve got, back to the grindstone and hope to be back here a little sooner next time.

Ciao for now.

Sam M

Welcome to the first post of many in my new ServWise Blog. If you are reading this then please be kind, I’m not a word-smith and have about the worst spelling of anyone I know. I’m a Programmer / Engineer and IT geek with a personal wish to one day make a good living doing the only thing I know something about, computers.

I’ve spent the last few months organising and preparing (along with the other members of the ServWise team) for the opening day of ServWise. It has been a long slog, with many late nights sometimes till 4am working out the finer details of how this seed of hosting future will look, run, jump and skip for our customers (Which I hope is or at least wiill be you).

A little more about what I do at ServWise before I sign off on this post. I’m a Windows engineer and am responsible for the Windows hosting at ServWise as well as many other things to do with the running of a successful! web hosting company. I’m also and probably more so a Web developer and programmer and have been making the majority of my living for the past 12 years designing and programming websites for a multitude of organisations. I’m also the developer of the ServWise Website so if something doesn’t work or could work better I’m the one to tell.

Anyway thanks for reading my first post, I hope future posts will be a lot more interesting and I’ll be covering lots of stuff about web development, SEO, Graphic Design and hosting obviously