It’s very important for every business to be online in this ever changing digital world, no matter the size of the business.  Every business owner desires to have a website for their business, whether you have an existing website whose contents has not been updated for years or desire a brand new responsive website for your brand, the first questions that comes to your mind is HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BUILD A BUSINESS WEBSITE?

The truth is, the cost of building a new website depends entirely on the type and complexity of a website. However, that doesn’t answer the question of how much a new website cost, but in this article, I will explain what you should expect with your website budget.

But before we jump into it, you should understand that your company’s website is not something you should be stingy about. Remember, it’s your first stage of digital advancement and many companies are now using website to help them generate more revenue and grow their business than ever before, if you don’t get it right or stingy about it your competitors may take advantage of you.

The cost of building a new website for your business depends on several components of website design and development. These components may include:

• WEB DEVELOPMENT TEAM: will your website be built by an individual, company or group of website development teams will be working on the website?
• DESIGN & BUILDING: Are you going to be working with an existing template or have everything custom-build for you?
• PAGE VOLUME: The number of webpages you wants determines your cost on the website.
• BRANDED IMAGES AND GRAPHICS: Branded images and graphics gives you edge over your competitors but it actually comes with a price.
• CONTENT COPYWRITING: Will you write all of the website’s content yourself or will it be included in the project? If you’re launching a new site but don’t have any content yet, it needs to be developed and you will need an expert in the field to it for you perfectly. As content plays important roles in your business, you will need a compelling and persuasive content to tell your business story to your clients.
• MARKETING: Your budget will dictate how much marketing is integrated in your new website.
• TIMELINE: How soon do you want the project? A website with a limited timeline can be little costly than the one with long time to deliver.

As a business owner in Nigeria what should be your budget for a website and what you should expect with your budget.

IF YOUR BUDGET FOR A WEBSITE IS AROUND ₦100,000

If the money budgeted for your new website is around N100,000, then be rest assure assured that your new website design and development will be through an individual, freelancer, or an amateur in development.

With this type of budget all your website will done using and existing free template, which may expose your company to threat or ruin your company online reputation. You must keep in mind that with a budget of N100,000 for a new website you’re solely relying on one person to do all design, coding, and writing all of your content which will not be compelling at all, except in a rare case of one pager website.

The customization of your website will be poor, may be a free platform and also not really secure. With this type of budget the website won’t have features most business website should have and content inside may be poor as it will not be written by expect in the field.

The only good thing about this time of web project is that it won’t time to deliver as the entire website won’t be more than three of four pages. But it’s very important for you as a business owner to have clear understanding of what you want and how it will compete with your competitors in this digital age.

IF YOUR BUDGET FOR A NEW WEBSITE IS BETWEEN ₦200,000- ₦500,000

For a basic business website that will include attractive features, fast, search engine friendly and generate sales in the competitive market. This type of budget will do it.

With a budget like this, you will able to work with team of designer, developer, and have your content written by a competent copywriter.

You will get more custom business website that will stand you out in the crowd. The functionality of the project will be able to compete and attract potential clients to your business, though the site might still might on CMS but with an advance customization and security. You frown at CMS? Many multinationals companies bigger than your brand use them.

With this higher level of budget, the developing team will involve you in every step of the website creation process to ensure that you are both on the right track. Your website will be attractive, search engine friendly and certain marketing strategies and tracking will be integrated.

IF YOUR BUDGET FOR A NEW WEBSITE IS BETWEEN ₦500,000 – ₦5,000,000

With this kind of budget, you are sure of a professional website. As they say, ‘you get what you pay for’. With this kind of budget in place, you will enjoy an advanced custom website designs that that will give your brand a frog-leap among its equal.

Your website will be built with the cutting-edge technology and best practice in the industry, with advanced functionality, fast, secure and interactive. Virtually every needed marketing and tracking strategies will be embedded.

Your design company will get you involve from the initial planning process to the last minute that the website will be deploy to your public domain. The quality assurance team will benchmark your site for loading, responsiveness, and speed, while also ensuring that it works reliably on all web browsers and mobile devices. Some design companies will also train your team on how to use the site, while they still perform aftersales maintenance free for a period of one year.

IF YOUR BUDGET IS MORE THAN ₦10, 000,000

With kind of higher level of budget, you are certain to get a striking visual website that makes you stand out among your competitors, a site that understands and addresses the interests of your potential clients and grow your brand online. Your design company or teams will design a sophisticated websites and interface that will capture the mind of your clients.

With this kind of budget you will get highly custom and unique interface designs because you have multiple talented people working on your project. The team may include project Manager, designers, developers, digital marketers, copywriters, quality assurance teams and many more to ensure scalability because of its complexity.

With this kind of budget, you’ll have an attractive high-performance web application that gives users the flexibility to search to do anything without looking elsewhere. Your enterprise websites will be taking care of with this kind of budget, no matter the complexity of your projects.

FINAL THOUGHT

There are actually two factors that determine how much your website will cost and there are size of the website and complexity of the website. Having a beautiful website does not mean it costly but what the website is capable of doing says a lot about the website.

No matter the size of your budget, the most important thing for you as a business owner in this present is to have your business online. The way people transact business has really changed drastically now to the extent that any business that’s not online will soon be out of show. But when choosing a web design partner be very careful with budget pricing. Remember, you will always get what you pay for. If your budget is extremely low chances are that your company website will be design by an amateur and that may even ruin your business.

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