The cost of hiring a web designer in Brisbane to design a new business website for your company can vary widely, with quotes ranging from $750 to $15k. The problem is knowing which website designer is offering you the best value package, and giving you a website that includes all of the features you need.
For example, it’s fair to say that if a website consultant offers to design a professional business site for $750, it’s going to be very low quality with poor coding and won’t include all of the features you need. Even for a good quality, but ‘bare bones’ professional website you can expect to pay at the very least $1000, and probably closer to $2000.
In general, for a quality website that needs to represent your brand, you are looking at $2000 to $5000, depending on the features. Of course, this is just a general guide. You may have a lot of extra requirements (online stores, payments, bookings, integrations with other software) or you may need custom development work. The price would obviously be much higher in these cases, but for a standard website package you would have to question the price if a web designer in Brisbane quoted $15,000, for example.
Why do prices vary so greatly?
The way website packages are quoted can be vastly different from one developer to the next. Some charge by the hour, some bundle it together. Some work from template designs while others design from scratch. The features in each package will also vary considerably, such as the number of design revisions, security features, training, support, and dozens of other items. Some developers will also only offer corporate website packages, while others may be geared towards smaller businesses and therefore only include the absolute essentials in many of their packages.
If you’re in the market for a professional business website and are faced with a variety of different quotes, here is our biggest tip on sorting out the wheat from the chaff.
Break down the costs of each website designer’s quote
There’s no easy way to do this, other than picking one website consultant and asking them to make these comparisons for you. After all, if you have five different quotes with huge price differentials, it makes sense to ask the website designer with the highest quote to justify their costs.
What you want is a detailed breakdown of all the costs in all of the quotes you have received, so that you can compare them side by side and can tick off which web designer in Brisbane covers everything on your list.
When you ask a website consultant to justify their costs, this is where you will really see what you are getting for your money. They should be able to explain each feature and how it benefits you. This will help you understand the process… but don’t go crazy here. No one likes having to justify their prices, so you should just seek a simple explanation.
At GO Creative, we always give you a detailed quote and we are quite happy to help you compare our packages with those from other website designers.
