How much cost for a website maintenance ?

Question

Hi all,

I am a little confuse about that if i want to get make website how much its cost should be. Is the cost of making website is more than maintenance of website?

Answer 1

It depends upon whether the website is created correctly in the first place and if so; the maintenance cost should be very little (in proportion) - depending upon nature of the project.

However, quite a lot of people end-up buying website designs (that sound low-cost) that are so badly made so that to "repeatability" alter them it costs the earth.

Poor site design leads to sites that are difficult to use, difficult to maintain, and expensive. Too often, site design gets very little attention until these problems manifest themselves.

Therefore make sure the main cost is the ground-up design and not constant updating. Although like was mentioned maintenance usually occurs over a "long-term" period.

Answer 2

How many hours will it take you to make the first five pages? (where most of the design effort goes). What do you want to earn per hour? That's your minimum starting figure (whether its 2, 4, or 5 pages). Scaling up to bigger sites, some people charge by the page, others by the hour. Large sites can involve two or three sections with different features, so sometimes extra pages will be at a similar rate to the initial pages, but extra pages with an identical layout are usually a little bit cheaper (just a little bit, not a lot) Maintenance is usually by the hour - I have an editing rate for existing pages (easy money, it's just typing) and a higher rate for creating new pages. It's all up to you.

Answer 3

Also from the point of the maintainer; what's involved in the maintenance? This can range from "adding 1000 products a month, including all the photoshop isolation work" to "just be at the other end of an instant messenger in case I get into trouble". Costs can vary wildly, and is usually based on the amount of time that is needed.