Let us first speak to the advantages of having your site constructed - be it a simple landing page or a fully integrated site with applications (like online appointment booking, e-commerce, e-learning, helpdesk features, viewer forums, and instantaneous live-chatting with prospects).  First, everything become scalable. What does this mean? 

A site becomes 'scalable' when it can begin as a single page but have the underpinning to seamlessly add a blog (to increase search engine awareness) or a store (on which to sell products or service and collect immediate payment), or an e-learning center or helpdesk from which to run your training or service divisions. When we begin a site, we are looking for the end from the beginning. Now there is a bold statement!

The cost for these sites is really dependent to a degree on how ready you are to share a well-thought-out business plan. Can you describe where you are now and where exactly you want to go? Do you have good quality digital images? Do you have a logo, a tagline, a mission statement, list of services or products you want to promote? The better you are prepared, the more money you will save. Now, some of these verbal statements - your tagline, mission statement, product or service descriptions will need to be compared with industry keywords, but this will only happen should you wish to be prepared to eventually 'scale-up' your operation to include Search Engine Optimization. In short: 

• A quick landing page, with marketing statements, images, list of services and contact form can cost as little as $495.00. 
• A 3-4 page site can be produced for $995.00- $1295.00.
• A full site with blogs or geographic landing pages (basically introductory pages with town-specific keywords embedded) for still under $1995.00. 

When speaking of our Integrated site with applications, the application subscriptions are 'per user' and the site construction and integration is produced at a rate of $65.00 per hour. Whereas the possibilities are so limitless, we can only provide: 

• A 'not to exceed' estimate based upon the scope of work, and
• A commitment to get everything running and humming to your absolute satisfaction. 

WordPress is an 'open source' platform where themes, builders and plugins (the bits and pieces of a website) are all independently produced and must be monitored for smooth integration and malicious attack protection. This can be done manually or with a device we use to monitor all sites for performance. This, like the cost for hardware hosting, costs us, as a firm, many thousands of dollars per year. This cost is divided among our clients but what it comes down to is this...

If you have a WordPress site with us, we charge you $89.00 per site, per quarter for hosting, web security and theme/builder/plugin maintenance. Minor updates to your site (up to 2 hour/year) are included with this price. 

If you use our Integrated site-application subscription program, which is paid either monthly or annually to our hosting partner, then all of this is included. The price for this subscription is per user/per month, and we can discuss this further during a discovery discussion.