You will no doubt be able to find cheaper prices (a lot of developers will say yes to anything with just to get you in the door). But you usually get what you pay for. You've heard of horror stories of projects running half a year over schedule, not working, being full of bugs, etc. Web design, like most other services, comes in hugely varying degrees of quality both in terms of service and work product. And as such, prices vary just as much. We've got a lot of experience with a lot of aspects of development and marketing and just dealing with clients.
Fly by night developers can't afford to spend an hour responding to a first contact sales lead. And they can't afford to invest the time and personal attention along the way. They often are too small to absorb multiple clients at once, so that's why delays are so common. They also commit to prices that aren't feasible, but they figure close the deal now, get in the deposit, and worry about the rest later. We don't work like that!
Our typical hourly rate is $85, but we usually (and prefer to) price per project which comes out to be considerably less than doing things hourly. Just to give you an idea, here is a very broad sampling of price ranges based on the nature of the project:
* All prices in US Dollars
Again these prices aren't firm, just guidelines, but remember when it comes to pricing, you usually get what you pay for in web design. At our price levels, a certain degree of common sense is built in. For instance, if the scope of work calls for a login module, we would just include a 'forgot password' function as well, whether it was specified or not. When you're buying low-end programming, the labor often doesn't apply logic or common sense to round out the functionality. Again, you get what you pay for.
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