Website design rates and development costs vary dependent upon exact requirements, and people seeking to have websites developed often do not know what to expect when they make an enquiry. 121webconsultancy likes to be up front about standard rates, because in the past unrealistic enquirers have expected to pay no more than £100 for an 'all singing and dancing', fully optimised, professional website. If you were not already aware, you can be assured that this is very much an unreasonable requirement. If you just want cheap rates and you are not concerned about quality then 121webconsultancy is definately not the website design company for you.

What is on offer from 121webconsultancy is cost effective, functional websites created via valid industry standard methods and techniques, at highly competitive rates. The website designer has many years professional website development experience, and offers website advice, consultancy and a personal service throughout.

Good website design, application development, and search engine optimisation takes a lot of time and experience, so, whilst 121webconsultancy does try to keep website design and development rates as low as possible, the charges must be realistic. 121webconsultancy's marketplace is amongst SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) and self employed individuals where large budgets are seldom available, so rates are priced accordingly.

1. Single Page 'Business Card' Website
Most businesses now recognise that they need a website. But some businesses are not ready for a full website or they have no real content to place there. In this situation 121webconsultancy can create a single page website, with some information about what you do and your full contact details, including an email link.
Single page website: £199

Please note: The cost of a website is not proportionate to the number of pages required. A single page website still requires layout and graphic design. Developing the standard "look" and the graphics for a single page can take as long as it does for 100 pages.

2. Basic 'Brochure' Website
This is a basic 3-5 page website with an enquiry form, where you provide the required content. 121webconsultancy can customise the design using your own company logo, etc, or by creating a simple website brand for you. Suitable images can also be sourced.
Basic brochure website: £250-£400

Please note: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is not included. A basic SEO package covering 2-3 relevant keyword phrases can be included in the build of your website for £50 - £100.

3. Advanced 'Brochure' Website
A step-on from a basic brochure website, this may simply be further pages illustrating service or product ranges. You may wish to include an image gallery, document downloads, a password protected area, or perhaps a specific server-side/database application.
Advanced brochure website: £450-£800

Please note: Server-side/database applications (i.e: booking systems, property rentals, job vacancies, etc) are varied in complexity and costing. £500 should be your absolute minimum website design budget with the possibility that this could run much higher, dependent upon your exact requirements.

4. Basic Ecommerce Website
Perhaps you require a brochure website but you also need to sell a single item or very small number of items online using PayPal or a similar payment processing service? Or perhaps you need to take variable payments online for services you provide?
Basic Ecommerce website: £400-£700

5. Full Ecommerce Website
In order to create websites with full ecommerce capability, bespoke front-end design, content management and a host of client side functionality and capability, 121webconsultancy customises and develops a number of ecommerce systems, including the very flexible shopping cart software – Zen Cart™ and ClickCartPro®. These are open source applications, which deliver fully functioning ecommerce solutions, simply requiring an experienced web developer, like 121webconsultancy, to customise for you. This will supply you with a fantastic shopping cart website, which runs on the latest technology (.php and MySQL) with full back-end administration, and everything else you require. i.e: customer accounts, order tracking, newsletter, gift certificates, discount coupons, sale prices, and much more...

Learn more about Zen Cart™ at: www.zen-cart.com
Learn more about ClickCartPro® at: www.clickcartpro.co.uk

Zen Cart™ Ecommerce Website: Start from £700
ClickCartPro® Ecommerce Website: Start from £1,200

Please note: Full ecommerce websites may have extra costs dependent upon the payment gateway used. i.e: Merchant accounts require set-up and ongoing transaction costs from the provider, and dedicated SSL certificates providing 128-bit encryption have an annual charge if required. Please contact 121webconsultancy for details.

6. Content Management System (CMS)
If you are investing in any type of database application or full ecommerce website then you will almost certainly have access to a CMS as part of this development. However, if required, 121webconsultancy can make any basic brochure website user updateable via a simple to use CMS with a MS Word type interface allowing admin to login online and update content when required.
Content Management System: add £200

Please note: It is suggested that you only consider a CMS if necessary. i.e: If you are making regular updates to content. (See 7. Website Updates) Also, if you are planning Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for your website, then keyword based content needs to be safeguarded and not randomly edited.

7. Website Updates
The annual 121webconsultancy hosting & support package includes 4 hours of updates per year. If you have very small changes and do not utilise the support package then 121webconsultancy will still carry these out for you free of charge. Non-hosted websites and/or major changes to site structure (i.e: adding new pages to navigation) will quoted upon on an minimum hourly rate of only £25.00 per hour.

121webconsultancy hopes that the above information and competitive costs give you some indication of what you can expect to pay for a website design project. However, please appreciate that it is difficult to generalise on website prices. Each person's requirement is different and website design prices can vary tremendously.

If you have any queries relating to any aspect of your project or the services provided, then please do not hesitate to contact 121webconsultancy.