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No matter how good your point is, its never good enough.
Did you ever get the feeling that no matter how hard you tried, no-one was listening to your opinion? Blogs can be much the same. It is very easy to mis-read / mis-interpret a post or to simply miss the point entirely. Sometimes people get the point, but choose to ignore it and argue relentlessly nevertheless. I guess some people are just like that.
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1. A Pro Will Do It Within A Timescale.
Professional web design firms will often state a timescale within which your site will be finished. Getting a friend to do your site often means getting it done ‘in spare time’ which means you could be waiting a lot longer for your site to be finished. Read the rest of this entry »
As a web designer and having experience in B2B lead generation for web designers, I find it increasingly frustrating when clients come looking for web design services without really having looked into budgets properly.
Now, I’m not suggesting that everyone has to spend £450,000 on a design (unlike the 2012 Olympic logo), however, it seems that many small and medium sized businesses greatly under estimate the cost, and value, of a well designed web presence.
A £500 budget is all well and good for a small brochure site, but for anything more than that (and lets face it, with business sites there is SO much more that you can do) you are probably looking at something in the region of 1k plus.
For example; recently we had an enquiry from someone who wanted to setup a website to sell various pieces of art from various artists. Now if the pages were static with simple images of the product and a number to call to purchase, the budget of £500 is looking reasonable. But they wanted a cart system, a database for all the products, visitor and artist logins and a tracking system to work out commission for each artist etc.
Is it just me or do clients genuinely believe that they can still get a professional job done for less than £500? Perhaps its because people still don’t value the potential a website has for their business or perhaps I’m just being cynical.
Whatever it is - you can’t have that website for £500. OK?