One of the most common questions that we get asked by people is how much will a website cost? This question cannot be answered until the designer has a good understanding of the customer’s requirements. If you do a search for web designer in Ireland you will find quite a few sponsored listings with website design from €99 to €299. We can create websites from as little as €350 and the most expensive website retails close to €2,000. Still a lot cheaper than  what other designers in Ireland are charging.

Most people who call me have no idea about how a site is designed. I have no idea how their business works either but I can help them deliver a website solution that will help their business. When we get a call from a potential client looking for a website designed we usually first ask them for is an idea of other sites they are trying to emulate for their own business. This helps save time for us to get a general idea of what the clients expectations are. The price for a website really depends on how large the site is, the number of pages, the content and complexity of the design, no matter what we try to tailer our designs to meet all our clients budget.

The following will give you a clear indication of the designing process.

The Designing Stage:

  1. Meet with client and briefly go over the type of design and layout for a new website
  2. Send over a quote/client agrees on a price for the project, receive deposit
  3. Review website content, and sketch out a  layout with the content given for each page.
  4. Design an inital mockup which gives us the general ‘look’ of the site.
  5. Some of our clients will require more than 2 designs to choose from.
  6. Send send client first mockup and wait for their approval.
  7. If client is happy with the design the designer will follow the same layout for all other pages.
  8. Add finishing touches send over to client for further approval before HTML conversion

 

The Coding Stage:

Designer has to slice up the final design in photoshop before converting it to HTML.

Add targeted list of  keywords within the content of each page on the website

Upload the website to a temporary server so client gets a complete preview of what the website will look like before publishing live under their own domain.

The website will be tested and viewed in different browers

All text to be fully spelled checked including no grammer errors.

 

Setup and Maintenance Stage:

  1. Preparing the agreed design for the CMS integration.
  2. Website files to be uploaded to clients server.
  3. Send instructions how to use CMS/set up a meeting and explain how it works.

There is more work that goes into a website than people think which include a whole bunch of tasks which include javascript integration, flash, multimedia, SEO, etc.

We hope this information gives you a good idea of a complete affordable and professional web design service.