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How much does a business site cost?

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Dan from small business web design agency Web Circle runs through some of the costs to think about when setting up your normal website.

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Some of the biggest run of the mill questions I get asked as an internet designer is how much would a basic site cost?

First of all there are a few things to regard.

Your web address - The first step is to get a domain. this is a small cost that the reader pay every year or every two years and can be as small as about 9 dollars / year or perhaps more for a localised extension (i.e. .co.uk).

Hosting setup - The next step is to arrange hosting. This makes you able you to use the domain for your e-mail and for your website. Hosting can range upwards from / month however for most acceptable plans it should be around 10 dollars or perhaps more.

Website management system - Your website really should be built on a CMS and usually there will sometimes be expenses associated with the cms. If the reader likes to use a public website management system like Drupal, Joomla and or The popular wordpress there can not be any ongoing licensing type costs associated with it though this is not the case with non-open source systems.

Website design and development - The actual web design and construction of your site might be the highest up-front outlay. Depending on who you source, it could be 100s, thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. For a standard small biz WordPress site you should be under a couple of $1000.

Necessary costs

In addition to these outlays, there are more things you might want to keep some funds for.

Online marketing or Adwords marketing

search engine optimisation

Merchant facility expenses (if you are selling via the site)

Other systems like an email system for sending out emails

hopefully this has been a wide-ranging paper but has given you some great ideas about the principal outlays in getting up your own website.

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Dan Norris runs Web Circle, a team of <a href="http://awebsitedesigner.com.au">web designers</a> in Australia who are passionate about helping small business owners succeed online.