Wow, wow, wow! This is great information. Thank you very much Rich. I'd especially like to thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to convey so much information in this message. I'm hoping I might be able to ask follow-up information as it occurs.
Big huge thanks Matthew----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricks Place" <OFBGMail@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:13 AM Subject: Re: Information Request for Web design web site Creation Costs
Hi:The costs vary widely depending on everything. You can get up a nice site for a few dollars or build a multi-thousand dollar site. It's pretty cheap to put up a basic business site and several IP Hosts will give you a basic site if you sign up for their services at a very low cost. IE $25 - $50 per month. There are freelancers and the Rent-A-Coder sites that will allow you to get anything coded up for very low costs and some of the coders are good. You can also get the sample E-Commerce Kit if you want it in Asp.net and have someone tweek it and use it commercially. Many IP Hosts offer this for free, not the tweeking but the kit, as a part of their basic service at around $10 to $25 per month. You really don't need anything like a team of Webmasters unless you want to go full-bore out of the gate which I would not recommend. You can start with a basic E-Commerce site and expand it as your client base grows by adding features as you want them and the income from the business grows. I've seen a couple of fellows at U of M start websites only to take them down after spending allot of money and time. Do it as a modular process to keep costs down and to target your client'ts desires, and willingness to pay, for additional features.Here are my recommended steps:Figure out where the money will come from. Who is your client base and are they already accustomed to paying for internet services? Next, you need to determine if you will have a catalog of products, that is need a shopping cart format, or just provide some limited products or services. That is, just a button to click for each product or service.That will determine a basic layout and your DB requirements.Now you have an idea of what you will want on your site when you ask for services:A shopping Cart or not: A inventory Database or not:Also, if you are selling things you will need security so either a Role Management or, at least, Membership Management feature with SSL.So you need:A Welcome Page with links to your Products and services, if not on the opening page. Login / Registration control or link to secure page for Registration / Login: A Payment Processing feature like Paypal or other Payment Service to get the money in your account. You can then add forums, accounting, audio / video and everything else one step at a time. Again the E-Commerce starter kit includes most all of these features and it is free to use, tweek and you can build on it if I read the docs right. You can ask about it to make sure you can do what you want. I think you could use it, tweek it and build upon it, but, not sell it or the modified version under it's copyright rules but I'm not sure about all that. Anyway do it in small steps and plan before you spend hard earned greenbacks.Rick USAmessage, your shopping cart, or short list of offerings, your Registration / Login controlA small Database for Rick Farmington Mich. USA----- Original Message ----- From: "Nimer Jaber" <nimerjaber1@xxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:35 PM Subject: Re: Information Request for Web design web site Creation CostsLet's see. You could go with a CMS such as Drupal, a web host such as dream host, which will provide you with a domain, and probably another at least 50$ an hour.Thanks Nimer J Matthew2007 wrote:Hi all,I've been tossing around the idea of starting a web based business. I'm not interested in selling any merchandise as I am already swamped here at work, but I am interested in selling information. does anyone know if there exists any means of measuring costs in terms of an internet based business? That is, I'm, at this point, requesting information on the costs involved in hiring a web designer/web master to build me a website to my specifications. I guess I'm asking what kind of money can I expect to have to dol out.Some preliminary parameters:1. I want the bandwidth to handle as many people on the site as let's say a my space or facebook.2. I want to give each user about 20 megs of free space3. I'm going to need a method of tracking information for all these accountsI've been tracking the various topics and discussions regarding programming and website production for the last few months and have decided it would take me way too long to learn as much as many of you out there, so I have almost completely concluded that simply hiring someone to do the tough programming and coding stuff would probably yield the biggest bang for my buck as well as leaving me time to focus on those aspects of business which I am much more comfortable taking chances on. With that said, absolutely any and all information is humbly requested and very much appreciated!Sincerely, Matthew __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind-- Nimer M Jaber Confidentiality Notice:The contents found in this email is confidential, and therefore may not be distributed in any way via any means. 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