I have found that people can be surprised when quoted our price for web design, but the simple matter is that our services are worked out at $100.00 an hour which is, more or less, an industry standard. Web design, and then redesign, can greatly increase the price when you take in the fact that a page design, by itself, can take eight hours or more to create. Add together coding and all the other bells and whistles that make up a unique site and you have your price.
In the end you get a site, tailored to you and your business, which is unique. Your site becomes your front line in marketing your business and can generate you thousands upon thousand of dollars over the life of the site. Is that not worth paying for?
Two web sites, both belonging to design companies, were sent to me this morning that really show that you get what you pay for. One is in English and the other is German but both could be one and the same. The both want your business and both are cheaper than LinkArtist Multimedia, way cheaper.
I’ll talk mostly about the one in English as I can read their site but it’s not that hard to navigate the German site for reasons I will point out.
OK, example 1. Joyvill Inc.
On first impressions, Joyvill’s site is nice and clean. It’s jam packed full of all those buzz word that you expect to find from some of our competitors. Straight away you know where they are located and that they know what Search Engine Optimizations is.
The front page then goes on to things you should already expect, like a site that will impress your competition and your clients will be able to use. Would you expect anything else?
OK so sounds pretty good huh? A cheap easy to use, pretty site from a ‘Web Design’ company! Where do I sign? Not so fast!
Example 2 Design Bits
Have you clicked on the link yet? Notice anything? I’ll make it easier.
Kinda similar huh! There is a reason for this. They use templates for their ‘design’. Both sites come from the same template then are populated with content specific to their own site. If I had a template to use, I’m pretty sure that I could knock up that site in five hours or so. Five times $100.00 equals $500.00 not ‘from $1600.00′! So it’s easy to see where the profit is.
But what if both businesses are connected and or owned by the same group? I did consider that and it could be true. Instead I took a look at their previous work. Now using what you know about internet templates, do you see any similarities?
Basically it comes down to this. You get what you pay for. If you like what these guys are selling then how about this.
1. Go to Template Monster , Free Site Templates or one of the many other thousands of template sites on the net.
2. Pay between $25 and $65 for a basic template.
3. Using Google or any other search engine to hunt out step by step information you need to upload and populate your very own site!
4. Enjoy. Just don’t worry when you see a copy of your site somewhere else.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
heh, those guys are geniuses!
Sell $35 template sites for $1500. SWEEEEET.
Bugger this 20 hour workday stuff