The costs to develop a website vary greatly based on the clients functionality and content needs. There are several planning steps required to have enough information to provide an estimate.

STEP 1 - Question: Does your current website reflect all the content that is needed for the new website?

• If not, what additional content is needed?
• Do you need professional copywriting services?

STEP 2 -  Provide more info about the new website.

• Have you written an outline detailing the sections and page titles for the website.
• How many pages of content will the new site require?
• Does website need content managed functionality allowing "in house" content changes.
• How many contact forms are needed.
• Does site need commerce abilities to accept donations or sell items.
• Does the site need a secure area(s) accessible only to users with a log-in and password
• Does the website need advanced database content? Example: we developed the Lawyer referral area for akronbar.org. This is an interactive database of attorneys that allows users to be referred to sequentially selected attorneys.
• Is an events calendar needed?
• Would you like to tie in social networking links?
• What other functionality or content needs do you have?

STEP 3 - Discovery meeting with Client

• Once client has provided us with the information from steps 1 and 2 we schedule a discovery meeting to review (in detail) the development objectives.
• After this meeting we can provide a ballpark range for the cost of development.
• If the ballpark is in-line with your budget, we request a project deposit and and write a detailed project "spec" that will enable us to provide more accurate development costs.

Many clients are able to provide a budget number which is very helpful for us to determine what is and what may not be feasible. If you have a budget number you're able to share it would be very helpful.