I need some advice on website design
Saturday, October 18, 2003 by kona0197 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
He needs a site that will supoort checkout with Visa/Mastercard and he wants the site for retail purposes.
How much does it cost to set all that up? about $3000 I would say?
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Reply #2 Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:30 PM
| retail purposes? - can you explain that? |
he wants a site like amazon.com where people can buy products online.
Reply #3 Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:34 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:38 PM
I have some people that do freelance work if you're interested. My email is [email protected]
Reply #6 Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:43 PM
Personaly I don't like being payed per hour, just because it isn't a good standard etc. If I was that friend of you I would see if I could buy a complete layout and let the coding stuff being done by a coder.
(I am almost sure that you can get an custom build layout for #300-500)
Reply #7 Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:53 PM
Reply #8 Saturday, October 18, 2003 7:07 PM
lets just wait and see what the guys from pixtudio and skinplant think is a fair price.
Reply #9 Saturday, October 18, 2003 7:30 PM
The type of website that Kona described envolves a lot of work. I worked with/for DSLi for sometime and the price for that type of website range between $4,500 - 5,500.
Reply #10 Saturday, October 18, 2003 7:37 PM
Reply #11 Saturday, October 18, 2003 7:42 PM
Also taking under consideration the amount of pages the website will hold. Each new page requires a new set of codes.
Reply #12 Saturday, October 18, 2003 10:50 PM
Man, guys! Are you for real?
A site like Amazon can take a whole team of developers months to complete, and I don't know any web designer/programer who would work for $1,500 or even $5,000 for a few months of work. A site with much of the complexity of Amazon could easily range in the $100,000+.
I do web sites for a living. For a company, and a little on my own. Sure, I charge a lot less than the company cause I don't have all the overheads, but at work, our contracts range around $10,000 to $20,000, WITHOUT any e-commerce features. For a BASIC, yet professional, e-com web site, expect to pay $15,000 and more. If you want more fancy stuff, like a complex databse with a lot of categories, sub categories, order tacking, customer cros-reference, etc, or if you want some flash animation, the price goes up quite rapidly. We charge $100/hour.
When I do it myself, on my own free time, I charge between $50 and $60 depending on the client and the contract. But still, don't expect anything under 7 or 8 thousands for something rather basic for e-commerce.
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Reply #14 Saturday, October 18, 2003 11:37 PM
Building a site of the magnitude such as amazone could easily run up to the 6 figures.
I might be wrong, but I think the idea Kona's friend have is of a simple site with the ability to sell items.
Reply #15 Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:15 AM
| I dont think he wants a website exactly like amazone.com. I think he was using amazon as an example of how his friend wants to sell things thru the site. |
Exactly. Something simple.
Reply #16 Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:51 AM
Well, there are always cheap ways, just not a custom fit.
If your friend has a low budget for a small e-commerce web site, he can get some scripts from hotscripts.com, a gui from GUIStuff.com, and hire an average programmer to put it together for probably the budget he has ($3,000).
A tip though. If I were him, I'd hire a programer from a country with a currency rate lower than the US. A Canadian or Australian developer for example. If a Canadian developer charges $50/hour canadian, the American customer is really paying about $35/hour or less.
Reply #17 Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:56 AM
Reply #18 Sunday, October 19, 2003 1:22 AM
I dunno... I come from a place where friends ARE family!
Reply #19 Sunday, October 19, 2003 3:18 AM
Something that godaddy has on its site that might be relevant for his needs: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/websitecomplete.asp?isc=&se=%2B&from%5Fapp=&app%5Fhdr=&prog%5Fid=GoDaddy
No doubt there are other places where your friend can get something reasonably priced to set up such a thing but this is just something for reference.
Reply #20 Sunday, October 19, 2003 4:01 AM
He puts his stuff online and the buy button brings you to the e-bay link.
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Reply #1 Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:28 PM
First of all, depending if he wants to host the site himself or if he wants to let it hosted. You can get a pretty good host for about $20-30 dollar a month, hosting it yourself is more expensive but easier and a lot of fun.
Buying a domain name is about $50 a year- 2 year. (then you have a www.yourname.com domain)
A good site layout is about $300-500 (as far as I know)