Calling all web designers!

[Merc fan]

Hi all,

Thinking of starting a business. Very, very early stages.

What does it cost to design and set up a website that will allow me to trade my products with all the appropriate branding, allow customers to use their credit cards, allow data to be extracted and input and to communicate with other companies' websites?

I know. Without going into a lot more detail, it's difficult to answer but I am just looking for help as to a range of cost and where to look to get this type of expertise.

Your help is really appreciated. Thanks a lot!

James

[Gruffy]

I'm sure by the time this thread reaches page 2 we'll have a page of posts eschewing the 99designs model of sourcing design work. My only contribution is to remind you that you get what you pay for and encourage you to seek out a designer who will help you achieve business objectives rather than simply stamp out something pretty.

[LivinLaVidaLotus]

One of our customers does all our design work - www.websq.co.uk - from meory they have pricing on their site for their e-commerce store setup (they do quite a lot of them).

[j1]

I believe there are grants for SME's websites available from Tourist Information Centres. From what I understand the grant is for 2.7k towards design and build and you then have to pay a monthly hosting fee, I'm not sure exactly how much but it isn't that much IIRC.

I think you are tied in for 2 years but then you own the copyright to the site. I'm told they will do upto 4 revamps every year aswell FOC.

They do webshops aswell as static pages, so maybe an option to look into to keep your costs down.

ETA linky http://www.websitegrants.com/

Edited by j1 on Tuesday 3rd March 18:01

[geoffd]

3internet.co.uk have done some good work for some of my customers. Phone Matt on 020 7100 9818.

Geoff