Web Development Cost

Simple, informational websites generally cost less to build as they have simple architecture and less features & components. These websites serve the purpose of providing information about the company or personnel, product & services it offers and contact details- much like a brochure. These are ideal for small businesses and professional services.

Websites offering services, like e-commerce websites, online stores, portals, and websites used for business processing offer more in terms of functionality, features, and interactivity and cost more as the design and development process of these websites includes more components like Programming, Database Management, Content Management System (CMS) and Security Features.

Design and development involves bringing together various elements of the website like design elements, content, navigation and other features to be integrated with the website. The design process focuses on creating the visual aesthetics or the look and feel of the website, selecting color palettes and font styles, creating layouts or templates and overall styling.

Content of a website can be broadly defined as everything that goes into making a webpage - images, text, audio, video, animation etc. Content creation includes:

• • Creating Brand Identity
• • Content/ Copy Writing
• • Photography or sourcing stock photos
• • Documents, fact sheets, reports, e-brochures etc. that may be included in the website.

A website may require several features in order to engage the visitor or make the website more interactive. This involves additional coding and programming and hence will add to the website costs. Some of the features your website may require are:

• • Contact/ Feedback Forms, Quotes, Registrations, Service Requests etc.
• • Shopping Cart/ E-commerce/ Payment Gateway
• • User Log-in, Permissions, Management & Security features
• • Search Functions, Tags
• • Online Chat, Customer Support
• • News, Events & Calendars
• • Blogs, Forums, Newsletters etc.
• • Portfolio/ Image Gallery
• • Social Media Integration
• • Online Promotions, Gift Coupons

Your website will need a Domain Name (www.example.com) which helps locate your website on the internet. Domain Name is unique to each website and once registered, it needs to be renewed annually. Domain Registration costs vary depending on availability of domain name and the extension (.com, .org, .in, .co.in, .net etc.).

Your website will also require a Hosting Server to store your website's files. You can opt for dedicated hosting or shared-hosting (cheaper) depending on disk-space or bandwidth required. Domain Registration and Hosting charges are recurring charges and add to your yearly maintenance costs.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of maximizing the number of visitors to your website by ensuring that your website figures prominently in results generated by Search Engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo!. Optimizing a website may involve editing and evaluating content, keywords & metatags, creating new content or pages and ensuring that the code and content of the website is conductive to indexing activities of search engines.

Search Engine Optimization is a continuous process and will add to your website's maintenance costs.