After the decision of a company to launch a website, it searches for all different ways and methods to get the website developed in a limited budget while getting it made altogether with high-end features and the most user-friendly content available. They have to investigate and learn from their competitors and make a site that not only challenges them but, also leaves a professional impact on their customers. A website is essential for all companies and organizations, since the beginning of online marketing and the rate of how it expanded. An online presence via a website or a social media page is the fastest way for a company to spread and educate their customers about the different services that their company provides. Nowadays, having such a high demand for online presence, different website development agencies do not charge a lot to get a website developed. Having a digital presence is an essential investment, especially if the company is just a startup because it can easily market and advertise their services to their customers in the most affordable rates and spread their own being in a matter of days.
Average Cost for Website Development
Since the beginning of online marketing, the cost of designing, developing, and building a website has changed swiftly over time. The existence of different types of interactive websites has played a vital role in more demand for digital presence of a company. Cost of different websites varies. Websites having more features tend to cost more because of the required services, like keeping up with the SEO algorithm, which is constantly changing, creating, and maintaining new ideas on how to make the website modern, more appealing, and easily accessible for all their customers that can be highly beneficial yet, a costly expenditure for a company. A cost of a website can be ranging from as low as $2000 to as high as $100,000+. It highly depends on the type of business you require the site for and the features you want to be integrated into it.
Website development companies in Dubai tend to compare this with the example of cars. Not everyone has the resources to buy a Ferrari but, they can always buy a low budget car, which might not be exactly what they need but it is the best option available for them to be on the road.
“A car is an expense but a website is an investment…a high-performance website will be the biggest source of revenue for your business”
Tips on Building a Cost-Efficient Website
There are many features that altogether make a website more expensive to maintain. Each feature costs on the basis of the efforts required to modify it according to its needs. There are some tips and tricks to cut down the expenses of developed websites.
- Content or Data Entry
It is advised best if the company have a high amount of data related to articles, blogs or even a list of customers or daily based records of any sort, which can be regarded as an essential data to be on the website, be entered manually by own self. In the events of hiring a website developer to do that for you could result in an unnecessary expense. As data entry requires a high amount of efforts and a lot of time the developer will charge more, accordingly.
- Customized Features
There are a lot of features, like integrating videos, forums, and online chatbot to provide data, which are available via extensions or plugins. These features are easily available and are affordable to integrate into a website. However, modifying them according to your needs is where the expense starts.
- Generic Websites
All sorts of websites have a different interface or user experience. Clients of website developers usually tend to point at different websites that they like and not realize the efforts and the costs that were spent to make it. To make a website that is inexpensive, impressionable and professional enough, it is recommended to choose from the different generic web pages available and then modify it and add new features to your desired needs. This may not lead to the unique website but, this method will cut down many expenses.
AUTHOR BIO:
Hina Eni is a specialist web designer associated with web designing company in Dubai for 2 years. She design websites on WordPress and PHP and can also work on bootstrap templates. She has good command on Adobe products as well. You can follow her on FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN