Web Design Agency in Sydney

The cost to develop a website can vary on the size of the website, design complexity, type of CMS required and any third party integrations that are required.

When discussing the size of the website, this is often referred to as the amount of pages within the site. The more pages you have to integrate the more time it will take to get these live. To save costs here, you can often ask your web design company to implement core pages and have your internal team integrate the remaining pages.

Design complexity refers to how in depth you want the design of the website. For example buying stock illustrations will save you much more money than having a designer uniquely design each illustration.

A component which greatly effects the cost of the website is your content management system choice. Developing on an open source platform like WordPress which is widely used developers across the globe will often cost less than commercial platforms where you have to purchase a license.

Third party integrations will often increase the cost of development. The most common third party integration would be with your CRM to allow website leads to automatically be imported into your CRM of choice.

Often standard development periods for websites range between 6 to 8 weeks. This is however dependent on the amount of content you want to integrate, the amount of custom features and third party integrations and the level of search engine optimisation that is deployed. Often the larger the website, the more time it will take to develop and import all the content.

In the web hosting game, it’s a true fact that you often get what you pay for. Purchasing cheap hosting may seem attractive at first but take note, with cheaper hosting products you are often hosted on a shared server with hundreds if not thousands of other websites which may impact the performance of your website. Cheaper hosting solutions are often offshore and not local, so support and latency becomes difficult.

If you conduct business within Australia, we recommend that you purchase local Australian web hosting. This will ensure your website is faster for locals as well as giving you access to local support team which is in the same timezone as your business.

A content management system or often referred to as a CMS is the software engine that is used to manage and modify your website. CMS’s are much more common these days as businesses often like to modify text and embed graphics, photos, video, audio, maps and with ease and often without the help of a web developer. Some popular content management Systems include WordPress, Concrete5 & Drupal.