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Originally Posted by da1prophet  That's part of the problem with web design--there's no real correlation between cost and quality. Obviously if you want a high profile professional design firm you'll pay through the nose. And since "I design websites" has replaced "I'm doing some consulting" as the line unemployed people give when they don't want to say that they're unemployed you can find someone to do it dirt cheap as well.
If you get a local web design firm to do it there's even more of a disconnect between cost and quality. A friend of mine is going into real estate and showed me a brochure for a web design company he was thinking of using. They were charging a ton for very amateurish looking websites, and then were going to gouge him for monthly updates. They were going to host his site for a mere $50 a month (outlandish for a simple, low traffic, non-bandwith intensive site) then hit him up for $5 for every email address he set up and so forth.
If you live in a town with a decent sized college hit up their computer science department. And there's always "rent-a-coder" which I mentioned in my prior post.
And remember as well that the cost of your design will vary greatly depending on your specific requirements. A simple site with a few pictures and links will cost less than a very complex, highly interactive site with a lot of scripting requirements. |
I agree. And not only that, if you dont know much about it, you can be getting some amateur-ish stuff, but paying pro prices.
For example, my friend, who thinks I should apply for web design jobs, though I have been doing it only a short time, showed me
WellMate Pentair Water which looks pretty decent aside from the left aligned design. However if you view the source there are some outdated thinking and coding in there, in multiple ways, not just in terms of archaic ways to do stuff, but there are lots of basic SEO rules broken or ignored...and the site was made a few weeks ago. They get paid to do it too, so its really hard to say what is worth what. Someone could run a firm and still be using tables to layout content, or not testing on multiple browsers, or not doing basic SEO.
It can be a crap shoot. Lots of people know HTML, its an easy language, but websites dont consist of only HTML anymore, its just not how it works. Jump into 2002.
