| What is the right price for a cheap web design? Well, | | | | What struck me about the request was the person |
| "low" springs to mind, but cost does tend to be a | | | | apologizing in advance to any professional web |
| relative thing. What is cheap in the web design world | | | | designers who were insulted by the request. |
| is going to be obscenely expensive compared to, | | | | I also recall an instance where I was buying some |
| say, fast food, but blissfully negligible stacked up | | | | pay-per-view advertising for one of my earliest sites. |
| against a car. In any case, the very fact that you're | | | | Now, as I am the one who handles the code, not the |
| accepting both a larger share of the work and a less | | | | graphics, my Photoshop skill is quite modest even |
| powerful final product means that you want the | | | | now, and was even less significant back then, so I |
| absolute best price you can get. | | | | purchased a banner along with the ad views. The |
| And in general, that will be in the vicinity of | | | | banner, while certainly a credible one, was a |
| $100-$200. You might very well find a designer that | | | | reasonably simple animated gif, not too terribly far |
| provides such websites for less, and you would be | | | | outside my current graphics capability. The cost, |
| wise to avoid those who charge more. Even in the | | | | $100, which for those keeping score at home is in |
| $200 case, the price is starting to get up there, and I | | | | the lower range of my listing for a cheap web design. |
| would expect at least some Java navigation aids | | | | The point is, cheap is always going to be a fairly |
| included in such a site, or maybe even a simple | | | | qualitative term, and the prices for such services and |
| graphic. | | | | website and graphic design are going to be at or near |
| Now, to some of us, that might be sounding a bit | | | | the triple digits at the least. Even so, if you support |
| outside the range of cheap. Templates do it for free, | | | | the design with some nice images and well-written, |
| after all. Well, that may be true, but it must be | | | | informative text, you can have a useful website for |
| remembered that web design is a highly technical | | | | a reasonably minor investment. So if you can turn |
| profession, which will naturally mean an overall higher | | | | your website into a valuable resource for your |
| pricing curve than less complex jobs. But perhaps a | | | | customers or a profitable advertisement for your |
| bit of illustration is in order. I recall on one job-finding | | | | company, a mere couple-hundred dollars is certainly |
| site a person's request for a web designer to create | | | | the right price. |
| a simple website. The asking price was fifty dollars. | | | | |