If you think a professional is expensive, try hiring an amateur. The difference between hiring a professional and an amateur is that with a professional, the cost is up front. Hiring an amateur is only less expensive at the development stage. If your website does not load quickly and properly for all visitors; if it does not look professional and appeal to your potential customers, you will continue to pay for your choice, in lost sales, long after the invoice has been paid. There are several levels of design to meet all budgets.
When people email me and ask for a quote, I always follow the same process. I visit their current site and determine the following:
- The current CMS platform (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.)
- The scope of the site – how many unique styling elements will be required for specialty pages?
- The perceived complexity of the re-design. Does this person want a graphical masterpiece with all kinds of bells and whistles?
Generally speaking, there’s not a whole lot of variance in these areas from blog to blog, so after checking out the site in question, I usually have a good idea of how much to charge. Now, to answer the question you all want to hear…
How much will my project cost?
This is probably one of the most asked questions. As an honest answer, it depends. How much does a watch cost? Exactly, it depends on the make, model and spec. We build to the highest quality and take time to ensure the best outcome for you. We’ll level with you, we probably wont be the lowest bidder for your project but if you read through our approach you’ll understand why. We want to be as open as possible about the costs involved in hiring. Here are some very rough average prices for you to get an idea.
Website Design/re-design
If you’re talking just design and html then prices start at about $700. It really depends on how much time you want us to spend on the early development. We can knock up a great design quickly but at the same time we have been known to devote 40+ hours just on developing the design. As with most things in life the bigger the budget the better we can make it. Either way we can come up with an elegant solution to suit all wallets. Your completed site will be tested for compatibility in all current browsers and will load in 20 seconds or less.
Blog Design
At this time, blog designs start at $800. This price is for a blog that has minimal graphical complexity, no customized icons, and no logo production. What you do get at this price is rock-solid, hand-crafted, browser-tested CSS, XHTML, and simple (but striking) graphic design.
In most cases, bells and whistles like plugin support, unique page designs, and extra graphics push the price up into the $1100-$1500 range. From there, the price is largely dictated by page-specific CSS/XHTML production and custom graphic design. It’s totally conceivable that a pimped out blog could run as much as $1800.
The major elements of blog design include:
- Graphical comps produced in Photoshop
- Graphical splicing for optimal CSS/XHTML structure
- CSS/XHTML production in standards-compliant fashion
- Unique CSS/XHTML adaptation to CMS platform of choice
- Bell-and-whistle functionality to meet client requirements
All of the steps highlighted above require a certain degree of expertise to be completed in professional fashion. Unfortunately, people who want designs are oftentimes unfamiliar with the amount of knowledge required to pull all this off in seamless fashion. Sometimes I think people see a design and think it’s all just a matter of applying a “look” to stuff that’s already there. In reality, that’s basically what’s going on. In practice, however, things are intensely more complicated. And this is why you hire a professional.
We charge $250 to setup a wordpress system for your website.
Logo Design Starts from $400
Of course this is also a very rough estimate. Before you hire us (or any other design company), you should determine your company’s attitude, vision and goal. Your logo should reflect these elements. Look for logos that you like and don’t like and try to identify the elements of each. Logo prices vary depending on your specific needs and likes. Our logo work includes:
- 2 Logo Concepts – with 1 to 3 variations shown based on each
- Options shown in 2 working days
- Team Size: 2 Top Designers
- Upto 4 revisions of selected logo
- 100% Final Logo Ownership
- Final Logo optimized in 4 web and print ready sizes
- Source Files sent in PNG, EPS and TIFF formats. Logo Images (full color and grayscale) sent as JPEG and transparent GIF files.
Banner Design
In order to get started, we will need the following information:
- Banner size (in pixels)
- Color Preferences (if any)
- Target Audience (primary usage & purpose of the banner)
- Limitations (if any, e.g. file size)
We customize your banner ad to fit your business image and attract your target customers. File size limitations are not a problem.
- Flash banners $250-$450/each
- Animated gif: $200-$300/each
- Static jpg: $100-$200
You’ll get;
- 2 Banner Concepts – with 1 to 3 variations shown based on each
- Options shown in 2 working days
- Upto 4 revisions of selected banner
- 100% Final Banner Ownership
Hourly and Flat Rates
- Print & Web Design: $ 85/hour
- Flash Animation: $ 85/hour
- Programming: $ 125/hour
- Hosting: $ 15/month
- Domain Registration: $ 25
- WordPress Setup: $250
- WordPress Tutorial: $85/hour
- 1 Page WordPress Modification: $85
- Plugin Install / Setup: &120
Ecommerce
If you require an online shop facility in your site we can do this for you. Again it does depend on the functionality you need but prices for this will start at about $3000.
Content management systems (CMS)
So you need to be able to update your site regularly yourself? Not a problem. We can integrate a content management system that allows you to update the content text, images and links in your site. As with Ecommerce it does depend on the exact functionality of the CMS but prices for this will start at around $2500.
Magazine, News Portal, News Room Design
Magazine – News-style websites are so hot and popular right now and they’re popping up all over the web. We help you to offer the mainstream public the opportunity to implement such a website at a very low cost and customize your online newspaper / magazine style website.
Individual Training ($85/hr)
You will receive specialized & focused training on how to manage your blogs content & increase traffic to your blog.
All web, logo, and graphic design services are customized to your specifications. Estimates are provided for your web site or graphic design project in advance of the design and development work (in writing), and we pride ourselves on sticking to them. E-mail us at info@remgo.com to discuss and/or get an estimate.
