Get an instant estimate on your web design project
We took it upon ourselves to break down all the different things that we’re doing when designing a website so that you could easily figure out the approximate cost of web design. Take a look below at the very simple questions you can answer to get instant pricing on a new website. Keep in mind that this is just an estimate. Typically web design pricing ends up being 20% more or less than the estimate given at the end of the form.
Easily estimate the cost of a website
Pick some features
We can set up your Google Analytics for you.
Sell your products online
Set up a blog on your site.
(applies for e-commerce sites only)
We can write the content for you and add stock images
How many images do you think you'll need?
Every page will have a minimum of 300 words
Typically up to 100 words
For e-commerce sites
We can set up your Google Analytics for you.
Sell your products online
Set up a blog for your site.
Here's a couple more addons
3 logos + 2 revisions
Create up to 5 social profiles
Connect your products to Google Merchant Center
How many products would you like to add to your Google Merchant Center?
We can write the content for you and add stock images
How many images do you think you'll need?
Every page will have a minimum of 300 words
Typically less than 100 words
Choose how you'd like us to build your site
WordPress themes are an inexpensive way to go. It's also easy for you to manage your site.
Custom made sites are coded and programmed from scratch. You can still get a custom coded WordPress site.
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See that guy to the left? That’s Tim Berners-Lee. He created the first web browser and called it the WorldWideWeb. He also built the first ever website which really didn’t look like much more than some words and links. Back then there wasn’t really “design” as we know it today. Anything designed mostly had to do with functionality rather than looks and aesthetics. You weren’t really paid as a “web designer”, but more than likely you could get paid as a web developer/computer programmer.
You can take a look at the first ever website here. That was Tim’s website and throughout the years he’s managed to build up an estimated $50,000,000 net worth. You’d think that the guy who made the first ever web browser and website might be worth a bit more, however we’re sure he’s not complaining.
In 1995 JavaScript was introduced by a guy named Brendan Eich. Back then it was called “Mocha” and it eventually became called “JavaScript”. It was a language used to compensate for the limitations of HTML. There were many things you could do with JavaScript to bypass extraneous coding in HTML.
Today JavaScript is mostly avoided where CSS can be used. However back in the mid-90’s if you knew JavaScript and HTML, you could be hired to program websites. Some freelance web designers in the 90’s reported having made as much as $10,000 for two weeks worth of web design work. However it should be noted here that not every web designer was making that kind of money. If you worked for a company you were likely making much less (the equivalent to $20 – $50/hour today).
In 1996 we started seeing some actual web design occurring. But just like anything else in the 90’s, web design was generally less than aesthetically pleasing. For the most part it was a lot nicer to have a change from simple links, black text and a white background. Companies paid tens of thousands of dollars to have a website that stuck out from the rest of the crowd.
Imagine that in a world full of black and white websites (at least most of them were black and white in the beginning) you’ve got the site that has vibrant colors. It definitely sticks out. In addition to colors, GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) were introduced. This was certainly an era of many GIFs. Coincidentally, GIFs have recently become popularized again through social media platforms such as Facebook and Tumblr.
In 1998 Cascading Style Sheets (more commonly known as CSS) was becoming popular. The idea behind CSS was to have the presentation or design of a website be separate from the content. You could create a better presentation of your content by using CSS. As a web designer you were at the top of your game if you knew CSS and could use it in building a website. This also meant that people paid more for what you knew.
So the content was created in HTML while the look and format of your site was in CSS. It was less than perfect in the beginning. Because of how new it was, it took time for people to adapt to it. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon to encounter bugs in the beginning. Today CSS isn’t considered to be a “must know” language for every web designer. It’s mostly considered important for every web designer to know about it. However if you’re fluent in CSS, it’s definitely a bonus.
Although Flash was introduced earlier than 2000, it was in heavy use by businesses. In fact, in the earlier years of Flash it wasn’t uncommon that you would encounter websites that were so heavily animated it would slow down your computer and take forever to get anywhere on the website. However that wasn’t the case with all web design. Flash has been used for many years to provide a more aesthetically pleasing web experience. However, when it’s used in excess it will certainly slow you down and create an opposite effect of what you’re trying to accomplish.
In the early 2000’s web design was booming. There was high demand from businesses to have a beautifully designed website. This was how people would get to know your brand and remember you. If you had a beautiful website it was a pretty big deal. Web design agencies charged good money to code your site. A lot of work and knowledge went into every website that was built! The idea of paying less than $1,000 for a website was laughable at this time.
2002 was when the web 2.0 boom occurred. Sites were using excessive intro animations which made it take forever to get into a website, blogging was becoming a huge thing, micro blogging (such as Twitter) was introduced and expanding, and social media was becoming popular. In fact, Myspace (if you remember that old thing) came shortly after in 2003.
Websites were very interactive and required heavy design, however some business owners felt that they didn’t have a need for web design if they simply had a social media page or a blogging page set up. This wasn’t common, but it happened. In fact, believe it or not there are actually business owners today who still hold onto that mindset.
Web design was still flourishing at this time. With new online concepts came a demand for designers. It’s estimated that to build a site as successful as Twitter might cost you nearly $100,000.
Around 2005 single page websites were kind of a big thing. You still find them fairly often today. These were websites that had a navigation bar at the top which would take you to a section of that page. Often times these websites would also have a “back to top” button. This design concept was new and became very popular, very fast.
Web design was very well established as an industry by this time. In the earlier years of websites it didn’t matter too much if you were on the internet. With the advent of search engines, websites and web design became more and more popular. Thus there was an increase in demand for web designers.
Facebook was created just a year earlier, in 2004. The cost to make Facebook. It took millions of dollars to create the Facebook we have today, however if you were to get a quote on such a website you would be looking at somewhere around $500,000 to $1,000,000 and anywhere form 9 months to a year and a half.
In 2011 web designers started using parallax scrolling in their designs to create a more visually appealing experience for users. The concept behind parallax scrolling is to create dimension on a website and give off the appearance of having layers. You’ll notice in the GIF to the right that there’s a foreground which is moving more rapidly than the background. This creates depth which is a cool effect to have on a site.
This among many other design concepts have been introduced since 2010. Responsive web design had been introduced as an alternative to having a mobile website, textures were introduced as layers to images to create neat effects, and many other innovative designs have blossomed since.
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