My Top 5 Reasons why Web Design is so expensive

May 29th, 2008

So recently I have inquired into getting a custom design for my blog. After
many quotes, the starting price for most web designers is around $2000.

While i could spend the money and get stand-out unique website, i would rather
not drop $2000 on this blog. So i have made the layout myself, and i am getting
it coded. Now coding can range from $50-$400. Which is chump change compared to
$2000 for a whole design.

Why are these designs to expensive you might ask? Well heres my top 5 reasons why.

5. Platform/CMS,
depending on which CMS you use, you could be paying out your ass for a design.

4. Quality
This ties in with everything, the more you pay, the better quality coding and
web design you are going to get. And another thing: Having it XHTML and CSS Valid.

3. Paying for knowledge.
They had to learn the language, and have to know it inside and out to
be a top quality designer. You dont want some 15 year old kid who just picked up
a css/xhtml book designing your website.

2. Coding takes time. time=money
man hours for creating a website for you.

And my number 1 reason is!

1. There are 162 million websites on the internet
and they are making a unique one just for you!

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