websites

[elfinwood saws]

I.m going to get a website made for me and i have been quoted £500 for it! it seem a lot to me. How much have you payed for your site?

cheers mark.

[Frank]

Depends on what your getting for £500. Give us a link to another website that has been designed by the same company for the same money and we can say wether it is value or not.

[Tonythetree]

Hi does the £500 include hosting and domain name reg?

Tony

[Alinicoll]

£500 is reasonably "budget", you can pay a lot more than that. As said, see what else they have produced.

[armchairarborist]

mines getting paid for in firewood..

[Hodge]

mine cost £275 plus a bit for the web address and hosting, £300 tops. the guy that did it is called matt and is sound. inteligent internet. give him a try.

[chestnut]

i think the saying goes - you get what you pay for - £500 sounds middle of the road sort of price to me

 

as a guide - my domains (.co.uk and .com) cost about £25 for 2 yrs - so domain names are only expensive if you are going through a middle man

 

a friend of mine hosts the site (for free) - i built it myself using very basic web publishing software - it's a simple site - but then it does not need to be flash - it does what it says on the tin

[peckerwoo]

Get yourself a copy of Dreamweaver (this wouldn`t cost you a penny if you know where to go ) and create your own site with the flashiest of tools currently available, then just fork out around £20 a year for the hosting (1&1 etc.?)

The only cost would be your time building it but that can also be a fun thing?

If only building a website was as easy as passing my 38&39 next week then life would be kinda ok

[sihart100]

i did mine myself and cost £55 to host for a year with 123-reg and use iweb on my mac to do all the designing etc.

 

But took me 2 days of pulling my hair out to get it sorted and will still needs finishing off.

 

so £500 for a professionally designed website not that bad at all.

[Stevie Mac]

A part from the cost of hosting my web site cost zero, my wife done it. She said it all depends on what you are wanting the web site to do, I dont think you need to spend that much on web sites for our trade.