The world of communication has been changing rapidly and the use of websites has become widespread. Most companies and individuals are using websites to get to their potential clients. However, most people are unaware of the cost of web design until such a time when they need to design a website. Websites can be quite expensive and affordability of the client matters a lot. Different web designers have different packages with varying fees. There are several crucial stages detailed in this article that influence how much you will spend on your web design.

The first thing you need to look at is the web hosting and domain name prices. Webhosting is the least expensive part of the entire web design process. Good hosting package can be obtained at between seven and twelve sterling pounds. There are some hosting companies that offer free hosting packages from time to time and this could be very advantageous to the webmaster. You can always look for such hosting companies because you will be saving the cost incurred in hosting every month. In case you will need to pay for hosting services, you can consider the packages being offered by the various hosting companies and their prices before you settle on your hosting service provider. Once you have a good hosting company, you can proceed with the creation process.

A good web design should charge between 80 and 100 sterling pounds per page and rarely will the charges be above this. However, the cost is dependent on what you would like to include in your website. If you have a lot of graphics for instance images and videos in your site, you may need to spend more. Graphics and images require more work thus inflating cost. The target of your audience also matters a lot. If for example you have an ecommerce site, you would need to spend about sterling pounds 2,500 per page. If your site is one that needs to use forms, the cost should be about sterling pounds 100 per page.

Another important factor you need to consider is the search engine optimization. There is need to pay enough money for SEO especially when targeting major search engines like Yahoo and Google.  If you do not know how to go about SEO, you can add an approximately 100 sterling pounds per page to the web designer to take care of SEO for you. You can also  consider paying for the Online SEO presence which costs between 80 and 300 sterling pounds per page per month especially if you need your content to be available online at all times. You cannot finalize on your web design without considering the marketing prices. The budget for marketing should not be higher than 200 sterling pounds. However, the budget could be between 200 and 300 sterling pounds if you have a huge customer base. It is important to emphasize on SEO and marketing if you use web site to get to your target audience. After all, you cannot succeed in this field without these two factors.