Website Pricing
My base price of 600.00 for a starter website includes the layout and design of your home page, which will establish the design of the rest of your site, plus 2 additional pages and one basic slideshow of 15 or fewer images. If you don't require a slideshow we can add another page to your site instead. If you need more pages you can add them for 125.00 each page.
If you are planning a site that's more substantial than this, please to discuss your requirements and I'll give you a personalized quote.
Domain Registration and Website Hosting
We have used iPower Web Hosting since 2003 and suggest you do, too! Click on the banner below for more information on the excellent service, pricing and bonuses iPower has to offer, such as FREE domain name registration/transfer with the purchase of a year or more of hosting services. For individuals preparing to post a personal website, please consider the iPower Starter Plan ($3.95/mo). We use the iPower Pro solution - only 7.95/month (95.40/year). On occasion iPower offers specials which can take 30% off this price; sites hosted with a special price will renew at the regular rate. In addition, you can investigate IPOWER Virtual Private Servers, IPOWER Dedicated Servers and IPOWER Windows Hosting for those businesses with more specific needs. Some of these services include a dedicated Customer Service representative for your convenience. Please click on the banner at the bottom of this page to learn more about iPower's services, register or transfer your domain name AND setup or transfer your website hosting service to iPower.Slideshows
Slideshows built in Flash are stylish and effective elements that will benefit almost any site, but the time required to build them can vary greatly according to your individual needs. A presentation of your sequence with no additional styling and 15 or fewer images can cost as little as 50.00! You can see one example at the site I've made for Blue Mind Designs, and another at Full Circle Retreats, a site I maintain for Full Circle Pilates in Hermosa Beach, CA.
Customized slideshows such as the one appearing on Revelation Cafe's home page and the one I recently designed for Hummingbird Arts add a real touch of class, integrating your image presentation into the overall design of your site. These start at 250.00.
Strip slideshows add an animated border which can greatly enhance your page's text content. These can be oriented vertically, as in Full Circle's Retreat pages, or horizontally like the one at seasidewomen.org's About Us page. These start at 150.00.
Some sites require a slideshow that can handle a substantial number of images, as in seasidewomen.org's Photo Album page or my own gallery of images from this year's snowstorms, or multiple slideshows like Jennifer Winters Photography and Revelation Cafe's Revelation Art Gallery. If this sounds like something you require, so I can give you a custom quote.
Online Sales
If you intend to offer your visitors the opportunity to purchase products or services directly from your site, we can integrate secure online credit/debit card transaction capability into your site using PayPal, the industry leader in secure online payment processing solutions. This can add the benefit of accessibility to your products by visitors from other countries as Paypal can receive foreign funds and convert them according to the current exchange rate. If you already have a personal PayPal account, you'll need to upgrade to or add a business account; additional benefits include free electronic transfers to your bank account and the opportunity to apply for a debit card drawn on your online account, giving you immediate access to cash and 1% cash back on purchases. If you already have a credit card merchant account, it may still be worth investigating PayPal's services, as their rates are much better than most credit card processing banks. You can find more information and open/upgrade to a business account by clicking on the banner at the bottom of this page. If you decide you want to do this but have some trouble with the process you can contact me and I'll be able to set you up with one phone call.Website Maintenance and Updates
Whether you're launching a new site or have one established, your website is going to need updates from time to time. This is where things can get tricky out there. I have heard some horror stories from people whose designers haven't made themselves available for the "care and feeding" part of their client's needs. One woman told me she went through 3 webmasters over the 15 years since she launched her site, and not one of them took the time to correct the incredible number of typographical errors in every page! One of them was charging her 135.00/hour! I find this unconscionable and unprofessional and I want you to know that my work is thorough and I care about the details. If you see a typo, or something else I've missed, please let me know and I'll fix it.
As to updates that concern additional pages, changes to the style or content of existing pages and new elements of any kind, I try to keep my prices reasonable and my work timely. Some changes take little time, others require a lot of work, and I'm flexible. In general, changes to an existing page are 25.00 and new pages are 100.00 each. Where the work involved in creating a new page or editing an existing page is substantially beyond what I can do for these prices, I may need the leeway of adding 25.00/hour. Style changes are usually more painless than one might expect, and new elements such as slideshows, static image galleries, custom Flash presentations and product ordering pages are priced by quotation.
