Website Development Cost

Website Development Cost Explained

There are three (3) major groupings or categories of website development cost.

1. Website Design is the one-time cost to custom design and build your website.
2. Website Hosting is the cost to have your website hosted on our commercial business web server.
3. Website Maintenance covers the ongoing licensing costs, technical maintenance, monitoring, and  client requested changes or additions.

Each of these three website development cost components are detailed below.

1. Website Design

Website design is the one-time website development cost to design, develop, optimize, and build your website. The cost can vary depending on the number of hours it takes to develop the new website and the complexity.  The design cost for a starter website is less than $800. The design cost for a small business website with 6 pages averages around $1500.

Recommendation – Contact us and give us an idea of what you want. We will prepare a free no obligation website development  quote in writing. No sales pressure and no hassle. Why not find out exactly what it would cost? IT’S FREE!

Besides our competitive website development costs, here are some important reasons to choose WizardsWebs Design to design, build and maintain your business website:

•  No Outsourcing – We don’t outsource to cheap labor overseas. The person you speak with is the person building your website and  we know our business.
• SEO is Included – The On-Page SEO (search engine optimization) is included in the web design cost. Most design firms charge extra for this work (a lot extra).
• No Templates – We don’t use prebuilt themes or templates. Every website that we build is unique and tailored to our clients needs and preferences.
• We are Experienced – Besides over 40 years in marketing, we have been designing websites since the beginning of the Internet. We utilize cutting edge design tools and SEO software.

  3. Website Maintenance

Many people seem to think that once their website is live the work is over. The truth is that websites need attention every week. While other agencies charge $1000 per month or more for this level of services, our regular website maintenance is less than $100 per month.

Website Maintenance is an important and necessary service that takes care of 3 critical requirements:

(1) Your Annual Licensing costs – If you had to purchase the premium plugin licenses, SSL Certificate and other services we pay for and provide you, your cost would typically be more than $600 per year or $50 per month. Most licenses are annual licenses and have to be re-purchased every year.

WizardsWebs is purchasing licensing for over 70 websites and is able to purchase multiple site or unlimited site licensing. Our per website cost is much lower than you if you had to purchase them. Website Maintenance gives you our purchasing power.

(2) Your Technical Maintenance – The list of all the things we do as part of technical maintenance is extensive. The list includes services such as performing weekly plugin updates, weekly site backups / restorations, periodic full site exports, monitoring 404 logs and maintaining redirects, monitoring local search ranking, site security hardening, improvements to on-page SEO / Local SEO, and much more.

(3) Client Requested Work – Need pictures added, a new project added, prices changed, or another mailbox set up? Most requests are completed the day we receive the request. By the way, Google like fresh content. In our experience, updating old content results in 2X as many pageviews in a year.

By far, the biggest complaint we hear is from folks that had some guy build their websites and now when they need changes, they either can’t find him or he is unresponsive to their requests for changes to their website.

WizardsWebs provides up to 2 hours of developer time per month for technical maintenance and client requested work. 

Other agencies charge over $1000 per month for this level of website maintenance. 

Summary

Website Maintenance is an important factor in website development. We take care of our client’s licensing costs. We take care of their Technical Maintenance. We take care of their Client Requested Work. Beyond that, our clients benefit from additional services we pay for including bulk image optimization, Vimeo video streaming services,  the many Gravity Forms Add-Ons that come with Elite membership, Keyword Research services, BrightLocal SEO, RankMath Premium SEO tools, and more.

We have a long-standing reputation for making our small business clients successful at the lowest possible website development cost.  We have clients that have been with us for over 20 years.

WizardsWebs Design only designs and builds websites for clients that use our hosting and maintenance.

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