Prices

Price List

Website Creation Packages

We offer a wide range of standard web design, build and hosting packages to suit most needs and budgets. From one-page landing sites to shopping-cart sites to bespoke e-commerce system, we have the skills, experience and pricing to turn your dream into an online business showcase. Please see details of individual packages and price ranges in our web design section.

If the packaged option doesn't fully meet your needs, or if it's time to upgrade your presence, the following guideline prices may help you to plan to make the most of your budget.

Web Design

Designer web pages - complex, feature-rich professional page design. From £125.
Bespoke page design - straightforward, uniquely designed web pages: less demanding than "Designer" pages but with customized strong, graphical backgrounds / features. From £79.
Paper-Based Design Reproduction - Creation of a web page from a detailed "paper" based blueprint (including any non-HTML electronic format such as PDF, Word, Flash, images). From £199.99. (It is generally technically complicated to transfer a design from one medium to another.)
HTML Design Revision - (requiring restructuring, e.g. to convert an existing site into the DIY online editor). From £79.99.

Further Web Elements

Professional picture preparation - sizing, cropping, optimizing, retouching / correcting defects and adjusting levels, precise positioning in the final page. From £40 per unit.
Standard picture upload - basic resizing, cropping, optimizing and simple placement on the page, including use in straightforward backgrounding (such as non-keyed tiling). From £4 per unit (bulk quantities / single job).
Professional Logo Creation - Highlight your business name / initials / message with a catchy graphical device. From £125.
Basic Logo Creation - a graphical-effect rendering of your text, such as lighting / textures, with no or minimal or suitable user-provided graphics. From £15.
Custom Link Buttons - plain text / colour effects as an alternative to the standard "block" buttons, per set. £7.50.
Graphical Link Buttons - custom-built in consultation with the customer. Example: the set of links on the left of some of the pages on this site. Per set, from £35.
Detailed Graphical Buttons - individually designed to specification; each, from £35.
Text Setting - placement or revision of text, from customer-provided .TXT file, per block. £3.
E-Shop: Product Upload - (typical product, max. 1 picture). £4.50 each.
Editorial - Text creation, per 100 words, minimal research / expertise; from £25.
Basic Sub-editing - Simple textual revision (typsetting, placement, paging) per 100 words. £15.
Pagination - Brisk textual arrangement (paging, paragraphing, headings). £20 per unit.
Simple Flash Movie - standardized, purely textual. £25.
Custom Flash Movies - including graphical elements, links, etc. From £75.
Standard Web Banners - standard (not highly customized) graphics with HTML link code. From £25.

Pricing of Web Elements

These charges are for work actually undertaken. Some degree of provisional drafting and approval is to be expected, but within such a low budget this has to be rather limited - so it is important to clarify important requirements from the outset to prevent any unexpected charges.

Extensive re-drafting, whether starting from scratch or finessing, will indeed tend to produce better results - which is why design tends to be so expensive. There's no way around this: a job that's going to take longer to do is going to cost more. If your needs are very exacting and re-drafts can be expected, it may be best to agree a specific overall cost with us - generally 2 to 3 times the above charges - beforehand.

Note also that a "unit" is the average of the inputs and outputs of a job. For example, the number of units in a job to re-work 2 pages of text into 4 is (2+4) /2 = 3. The number of units involved in a job to combine 3 pictures into one composite one is (3+1) /2 = 2. They are charged accordingly.

Web Facilities

Basic Picture Resizing Software - free to all customers.
Easy-Edit Content Management Facilities - update your web site without any technical / HTML etc. skills. FREE when built-in from the outset (as is standard).
Expanded Web Reply Forms - customized fields / checks; from £25.
Autoresponder (basic) - collect email addresses from your visitors; from £25.
E-commerce Payment Button - single or "open" price. £15.
Basic E-commerce Upgrade - simple paypal basket (but no catalogue or easy-upkeep facilities) plus 4 items. £50.
10GB Hosting - monthly limit (up to a million pages if low-graphics). Only £3 / month. (First year free on all standard packages.)

High-Level Database / Application Support

For corporate contract work we charge according to the average industry rates for DBA skills. This currently comes to £350 a day (or £27.50 an hour for longer-term contracts). Very short-term work coming in without notice can be undertaken for double the standard hourly rate (i.e. for £55 an hour; minimum one hour) but this is not an ideal way of working and generally it is far better to book at least a week ahead.