We have website quote requests all the time, not all of them at taken up but the vast majority of them are as we take time to learn about your requirements and while doing that explain that we can offer you exactly what you want and need plus more to ensure your website actually ‘works’ for you. Here is a recent conversation:
[Essex Website Design Company] Ok we are talking about a 8 page brochure website that you can update yourself (CMS) with a blog (diary) and think that would give you a great grounding for your website. We will be allowing you a CMS system (website pages you can update yourself) where we can create it such as you will have a admin menu and access to all your page’s text when your site is build and put live. You would need to tell us what pages you want to control. This would ensure you got an industry standard / search friendly / easy to update CMS system.
Design of website – Recommend our Premium (8 pages / gallery and CMS) website package – website packages
So as a package price we can work out some discount for it as long as it includes the customised blog option as we will then be able to off you our standard discount of 5% to existing clients to make the price £850 (we will need a deposit of £350 which is required to start work and the final payment at the end of the project when you are happy) This includes the hosting / transfer / email setup / design. It doesn’t include any professional photos / stock images or webcopy (text) you need us to create or provide.
[Website Client] As discussed please find enclosed the completed form which you sent. In order to bring the costs down further I’d like to cut back on certain aspects. The only things we cant move on are the photo gallery and updating of the news/events section. Saying that this will only need to be updated once or twice a year.
Also, I’ve already purchased a domain name which I would be keen to transfer across to you in order for you to create the website. I’ll provide all of the text and images needed but as a starter for 10 we would like the colour scheme to match that of the guide website. Having discussed this with my work colleagues the costs are slightly too much for us to contemplate. For information, the current thinking is to go down the DIY wordpress route. Thanks again for your time and should things change I’ll let you know.
This client failed to give a budget and as such didnt let the website designer build a package suitable for them. At Delicious Webdesign we ask you want you want to spend on your website project to ensure we build something for you that gives you what you want and need and can afford. All websites can be added to or expanded at a later date as its much better to get a small website up early then add to it at a later date, than waiting 1 or 2 years for a larger website.
