Web Site Development Costs

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Typical costs, development and setup (these fees are necessarily general and minimums, your costs may be higher)

Low-end site: (5-10 pages) . . . . . . . . $2,000+
Static site (no user-tracking or statistics), image mapping, no animation or sound. Creative, illustrations, html coding, virtual hosting, 10mb storage

Mid-level site: (25-100pages) . . . . . . . . $6,000+
Stastics, image maps, frames, animation or sound. Creative, illustrations or stock photography, html coding, CGI programming, virtual hosting, 25mb storage

  • For Real Networks Server, add $1,500
  • For animation, add $2,000+
  • For dedicated hosting, add $5,000+


High-end site: (50 or more pages) . . . . . . . $50,000+
Dynamic site (tracks user movement and origins), statistics, image maps, frames, Flash™ animation, Real Networks or QuickTime™ audio or video, SQL database queries, “shopping cart” web sales, secure-transaction server software. Creative, illustrations, html coding, CGI and javascript programming, dedicated hosting

  • Service contract (required) see below . . . . . . . . $1,500/month
  • For Onsite hosting (hardware and setup), add: . . $10,000+

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Typical costs, ISP hosting: (these fees are necessarily general and minimums, your costs may be higher)

  • Low-end site, standard hosting: $25/month
  • Low-end site, virtual hosting: $35/month
  • One-time DNS setup and server configuration fees: $125-150
     
  • Mid-level site, virtual hosting: $75/month
  • Mid-level site, dedicated hosting: $250/month
  • One-time DNS setup and server configuration fees: $125-150
     
  • High-end site, dedicated hosting: $350/month
  • High-end site, onsite hosting: (does not include Telco connection charges) $1,500/month
  • One-time DNS setup and server configuration fees: $125-150
     
  • Consulting fees, conceptual design/marketing only . . $100/hour

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Typical costs, Content Production and Maintenance: (these fees are necessarily general and minimums, your costs may be higher)

Costs include preparation and repurposing of written content (text), scanning and modifying of photographs or illustrations for the web, building and linking of new pages, and other necessary maintenance. By prepaid contract only; minimum contract period is six months.

  • Low-end site, up to 2-1/2 hours per month: . . . . . . . . . $200/monthly
  • Mid-level site, up to 8 hours per month: . . . . . . . . . . . .$640/monthly
  • High-end site, up to 25 hours per month: . . . . . . . . . . .$2,000/monthly
  • Non-contract Hourly rate: . . $100/hour

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