Website – how much does it cost to make a website and what is worth investing in when creating one?
Do you want to open an online store, or are you thinking of running your own advice blog? Or maybe you want to showcase your company and brand online? To present yourself and your activities on the Internet, you should think about creating a professional website. So how to choose the right contractor and what is the cost of creating a website? What domain and hosting should you opt for?
Web development offers available on the web cannot always clearly and comprehensibly help you choose the right contractor. A proper UX and UI approach in designing a site tailored to the needs of both the project itself and the viewer is a guarantee of success and the assurance that the cost of making a website will converge with the necessary online functionality.
The website and its cost
We often wonder what the cost of creating a website might be. What budget to allocate for it? It all depends on what we want to show on the site, what features we want to run and how extensive our site is to be. The cost of a website can be a few hundred zlotys, but it can also oscillate in the tens of thousands. It all depends on how complex the structure of the site will be, how much functionality it will contain and how complex the technical preparation process will be. To correctly estimate these costs, it is worth consulting an expert in the field of web design. If we need a more sophisticated site, and we do not have a specific audience, it is advisable to do a focus study that will determine the personae without which the designed website may not be successful. The cost of making the simplest company website starts from 2000 PLN net. It all depends on how many subpages the site is to have and what functions we want to provide to the recipients who will use the site. If we want to use forms, newsletters or provide a comment section for Internet users, the price will always be higher. So how can we judge whether the choice of a particular bid and a particular contractor will be a success in the form of a properly functioning website? What affects the price of making a website?
Website – what to keep in mind before deciding to make one?
In order to order the development of a website, it is necessary to define all expectations from the site, as well as to prepare a list of technical features to take care of when designing a website.
Website – basic expectations and needs of the site owner:
- Do we only care about basic visibility on the web and thus will be satisfied with a home page, a sub-page or several sub-pages with our offerings and contact information?
- Does the nature of your business require a broader presentation of your products or services, with detailed descriptions and photos?
- How extensive do we want our website to be? What number of sub-pages do we anticipate?
- Will we do marketing automation and use forms?
- Do we want to strengthen our brand through advice content published on the blog?
Website – technical functionality of the website:
- Do we want the site to be accessible to all Internet users, or to some of them after registration and login?
- Do we want to include an interactive Google map and show the company’s location?
- Should there be a search engine, filtering and sorting on the site?
- Do we want users to be able to use online calculators, be able to download sample documents or upload their own documents from the site?
- Will the site need to include a contact/notification form?
- Do we want the site to be integrated with social media, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, or YouTube?
If we are preparing to discuss the creation of a website and we do not include all the questions in the above list, as well as do not find the answers to them, certainly the group of specialists who will be responsible for the creation of our site will raise the required issues, such as, for example, the installation of an SSL certificate, CSS styles, CTA buttons, or responsiveness of the site. Gathering the most important information and guidelines will be a big help for the website design team/.
Website – how to choose a contractor?
When choosing a website contractor, it is worth paying attention to how he presents his own offer, whether he makes his projects available and has an extensive portfolio. This will allow you to familiarize yourself with the sites of clients for whom the sites were designed. You can then evaluate the style, color scheme, functionality and many technical elements that have been implemented on a given project. When choosing a website contractor, it is also worth considering the creation of a graphic design. It is important that users recognize your brand and remember the visual elements of the site. At the design stage, there is always an opportunity to make changes and apply graphics that will enhance the aesthetic qualities of the site. When placing an order for the creation of a website, it is good to have our own examples of websites that are close to our expectations and meet our needs. When choosing a contractor, do not forget about legal issues as well. All the terms discussed with the website contractor should be included in the contract, which always specifies the type of work, the completion date and the cost.
Website – what is the time to create a website?
How much time it takes to implement a website in terms of UX and UI depends on what work is included in the contract with your website provider. Most often, the implementation of a website involves the following elements:
- Discuss needs and gather guidelines.
- Preparation of a dedicated offer and signing of a contract.
- Preparation of graphic designs, if any in the contract.
- Implementation of all elements according to the backlog and online testing.
- Making the site accessible to users.
The elements indicated above will vary depending on the size of the project and individual technical requirements. However, on average, the time in which you should expect results in the form of a finished website is:
- Business card of the company – completion time of about 1 week.
- Landing Page – completion time of 1 to 2 weeks.
- A company website with a small number of pages and uncomplicated technicalities – completion time of 2 to 3 weeks.
- A website with a large number of pages and extensive technical features – completion time of 3 to 4 weeks.
- Company website with a catalog of products or services – completion time from 3 to 4 weeks.
- E-commerce type site and blog – completion time of 4 to 6 weeks.
Any delays resulting from the approval process of the proposed ideas should always be added to the lead time of the website construction project. Therefore, in case of any comments or ambiguities, it is worth asking the supplier about the elements that raise our doubts.
Websites – what is the cost of selected websites?
When we have specified our needs and requirements for our site, it is worth asking several web development companies to send us a quote. We will then easily compare the individual costs of implementing the required stages of the project. What are the costs of websites depending on their size and technical sophistication? Below are examples with discussion.
Business card of a company – how much does it cost to make it?
If you only want to present information about your business on the website, provide basic information about your products or services, and provide contact information, then a company business card will be an ideal solution. The cost of making a company business card is PLN 2,000 – 3,000 net. The price of making a company business card depends, of course, on the complexity of the site.
Landing Page – what is the cost of making a landing page?
If you want to promote a specific product or service, bet on a dedicated landing page that will concentrate the necessary information and help generate sales leads. Landing Page works well in online marketing, so when betting on this type of website, be prepared to spend from 3,500 PLN net upwards. Why such a price? Landing Page type sites use banner ads and other elements to increase traffic, and generate the expected interactions of site users.
Landing page for brewarybydgoskie.pl
Company website – what is the price of comprehensive development of a company website?
Comprehensive website development implies the implementation of the project from A to Z, including graphic design and all technical elements mandated in the contract. Most often, the construction of such a site, preceded by an analysis of personas, requires the work of a larger team, where UX/UI requirements are taken into account and a content area is proposed, which in the future will be used for better indexing and positioning of the site. Very often, the functionality of complex company websites allows for expansion at a later date. For large company websites, with many functionalities and extensive structure and navigation, the cost oscillates in the range of PLN 3,500 – 7,000 net.
Company website with a catalog of products or services – what is the price of making such a website?
If your intention is only to present on the website the products or services you offer without the possibility of purchasing them, then you have the option of creating a website that provides a dedicated catalog. The design and development of a website with a catalog of products or services is from PLN 4,000 to 10,000 net.
E-commerce website – how much does it cost to create a website with an online store?
When your offerings include products and services that you successfully sell stationary, it is worth moving your purchasing propositions to the Internet. It’s also worth launching a stand-alone online store if you plan to do so. Most often, when designing a company website, place special tabs under the online store and blog. Such a layout increases the attractiveness of the site and definitely affects the positioning of the site. The cost you should invest in a site with a store and blog is PLN 7,000 – PLN 15,000 net, depending, of course, on the technological sophistication of the site.
Blog site – how much does it cost to create a site for a blog?
When you want to promote your personal brand or your own business, you should consider creating a blog so you can reach your fans/users with various forms of content. The cost you have to pay when you decide to create a blog is £2,000 – £3,000 net.
Hosting and domain – additional costs associated with running a website
A very important point to keep in mind is the fact of paying annually for the maintenance of the site, that is, the cost of the Internet domain and the cost of hosting, that is, the fee for the server. These costs vary, respectively, for the maintenance of the domain 50-150 zlotys per year, while hosting is the price of 100-500 zlotys per year.
I already have my own website. Do I still need to include any expenses for its maintenance?
After the completion of all work related to the design and launch of the website, it is always possible to make programming changes that will improve the functioning of the site or improve usability as dictated by the requirements of Internet users. Any modifications to an already functioning site are a matter of individual arrangement, and their pricing is dictated by the sophistication of the work and the amount of time that will be spent on the order. These costs range from 130 to 200 PLN net per hour of work of the programmer.
Why invest in a good website?
When we make the decision to make a website, it is worth choosing a good service provider who will professionally assess our needs, help us choose the right site, suggest the necessary functionalities and comprehensively execute it with the possibility of making changes at a later stage if the development of our business requires it. As we wrote about it above, the cost of making websites varies. However, the most important value in itself is the diligence of any commissioned work and the professional approach of the specialists working on your website. Therefore, it is worth paying the higher costs associated with the creation of the site, because we are sure that it will be done at the highest level.
