Pricing A Website

Pricing a website is subject to a number of factors including the techniques and technologies that the webmasters deploy. Pricing of a new website or application is also largely dependant on a website specification.

The more specific your website specification, the more likely you will be able to compare the final proposal pricing provided to you by multiple vendors.

If you meet with several website developers in Calgary and simply describe the functionality that you wish your website to have, you will get pricing back that is all over the board. You will likely find pricing that ranges substantially from web developer to web developer as a result of many factors. For example,

• One developer may have no programmer on staff and as a result will offer a cheaper website that is static HTML as opposed to another developer who will offer you a more sophisticated solution with a database component.


• A developer who quotes custom programming for functionality will likely have to schedule a lot of hours to achieve their goal whereas a more creative web developer may take a different approach to achieve the same results at a substantial savings to the client. This may include the use of existing modules or web applications.


• There are a lot of options for programming and scripting languages that may bind your project to a certain type of web server operating system. The choice of technologies such as scripting languages, the type of server technology, the type of databases selected for your project may impact the initial and ongoing licensing fees for your project. If one developer quotes your project as custom developed with ASP.NET , MSSQL Server and Windows IIS web servers the cost will be different from another develop who may choose Linux, Apache web server, mysql database and PHP for scripting (the LAMP architecture).


• If you do not have a clear and concise flow chart describing both design and function for you website it will be extremely difficult to compare apples to apples.

Ask eKzact to Develop Your "Request for Proposal"

If you are shopping for a new website developer and would like to start with a clear and concise request for proposals, please call eKzact Solutions Inc. and we can help you. It would be our pleasure to develop a specification for your project that you can use to tender to other service providers. We will also provide you with budget numbers based on the specification. While we charge a small fee to develop a request for proposal document for prospective clients, we refund that fee should you choose eKzact as your developer of choice.