Costs and Rewriting Existing Sites

Typical Costs

Costs of course vary with your requirements. For a basic web site the typical costs would be £160 for a new 12 page site or £80 for a 4 page site.

Factors that could increase costs would be dynamic effects (usually motion) or designing complex graphics. If you can supply your own graphics this will help keep costs low.

If that all over the top for you or more than you wish to pay, for a simple page to put your basic details online. Try the single page web site option.

After your web site goes live

Simple wording changes are usually not charged but after several of this type of change you may be charged £10.

To give an idea of what you get for your money for £10: You would get 20 minutes coding time enough to make very significant changes to a page or indeed several pages. A single change to a style sheet for example, would change all pages using the style sheet - thats usually every page on smaller web sites.

Rewriting Existing Sites

Changes can be to individual page(s) or:

• Cosmetic changes to a whole site to refresh the look and feel of a site but leave the basic text unchanged.
• Complete site rewrite service. Salvaging existing pages that work, rewriting or scrapping problem pages and adding completely new material. Note that access to the web site logs are needed to analysis what pages are successful or not. see the site statistics page for more on this.
• While you are the expert on the material published on your web site. I can often also supply new content (both text and images) for your site.

Contact Bristol PC to discuss any of these options.

How many pages should you have on your web site?

There is no single answer of course, it is a balance of costs against results and equally how much material you have and how it can be split into the topics that you wish to promote.

Sites with few or even only one page, are easier (and so cheaper and quicker) to set-up, they can be a good value for money option.

If you have good material to put online, that is material of interest to potential visitors on many topics. Then you can dedicate each page to one or two of the topics that you wish to promote, giving your website multiple chances of being visited.

The home page usually has the largest share of visitors but each page on the site is an opportunity to get more visitors to your web site.

Consider splitting longer pages with multiple topics, as information well down the page may not be seen at all by human visitors and will also be given less significance (and so appear lower in the listing) of the search engines.

Contact Methods

For more information ask for Peter by :-

• Phone UK  0117 3789 546
• E-mail:       Peter Frost.