How much would I pay to for a custom web design for a site like or better than http://www.deciccohomes.ca ?

I want to pay for original custom web design work only - no templates. Moreover, I don't want to pay more than $25 a month for hosting and maintanance afterwards but I would like the same professional to do this. To be perfectly clear, I would like a serious full time professional with a solid portfolio to do this. I need direct contact and personal attention. I have digital photos and brochures for the designer to draw from.





Note: I build homes, but this does not mean that I would like to be ripped for all I am worth. I had a local studio offer to do this for $12,000 and $300 a month afterwards for hosting and maintenance. I am sure that adding two or three photos every month would not cost this much.





What would a serious professional web designer in Ontario charge for a job like this?





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How much would I pay to for a custom web design for a site like or better than http://www.deciccohomes.ca ?
Why not get more quotes? I doubt you hire anyone else with just one quote. The first quote you have looks a little high unless the $300 includes more than just hosting.
Reply:Well, im going to tell you right now it is going to be a lot more to pay someone to do this for you. It costs at least $30 a month just to host the site alone, let alone have someone update and maintain it. $300 doesnt sound reasonable, especially if they are rarely having to do work. Is it going to have any type of payments on the site? or just a web site to look at your design ideas? If its just a plain website and no money will be exchanged off of it, you can maintain it yourself, make sure and load up the page whenever you can and make sure it still running. Im not sure why you would have to pay someone to add the pictures, you should really pick up a book and learn how to yourself, it might take you only 10 minutes, its quite easy using html. As of starting and putting the stuff together yea someone is going to want a big chunk of change. but 12,000 sounds pretty crazy. Granted we are talking canadian dollars right? i would say $2000 u.s. sounds reasonable. And sorry to tell you but the website you have listed is using a template. There are over 3 million types of templates, general all sites have a template, if they didnt things would just be randomly placed on the page. I take it you dont have to much pc experience. If anything pay for someone to start it up, and then if you really cant figure it out for yourself, pay for the job each time something needs updated, instead of monthly. I just think you should read some html books and get it done yourself.
Reply:I would say $2250 Canadian for designing a static website of this genre and size from scratch - no templates - that is given you really would provide the photos and the text.





$25 a month for hosting and maintenance would be reasonable for the updates you describe but you could end up paying more depending on the uptime you demand and the traffic you use.
Reply:I'm a web-designer/programmer from Rochester, NY. I'm not sure about in Canada, but I can tell you that the going rate for basic web-design is about $250.00 a year here in Rochester. There may be some other fee's applied to the application of such design if you need to buy a domain and a host site.





Regardless, even if you have to have it built from scratch, the overall price should not exceed $300.00 a year.