The cost to having a website made

[DMR]

I was wondering how much it would cost to create a site from scratch. I was thinking of a site that sells clothing so it would be simple and clean, think of clothing websites. How much would that cost me?

 

[Virtual]

~$50-$500 - the design depending on what you're looking for (one time)
~$15 a domain (yearly)
~$7 for hosting (monthly)

 

[DMR]

So $500 can get me a glitch-free clothing-themed website (think of clothing websites) where people can order securely? Does it include the coding along the theme?

 

[Virtual]

Well the price generally depends on the coder, if you're going to get a professional with a degree it might go up to $5000 but yeah that's the general idea if you're interested pm me I can fix you a good price.

 

[Panda-Splosion]

You can easily outsource this to India, there's plenty of good Indian developers that can do this at a fairly decent price.

Domain can be gotten for $1.5 or so with GoDaddy coupon, hosting can be done even cheaper than $7/month but that's fairly average for a decent host like HostGator.

As for the actual cost for the site, like I mentioned above, it would be cheapest to go with an Indian developer. Price will vary though depending on how you want your site built, using a CMS and a customized theme, or building from scratch with HTML. A responsive WordPress theme will run at around $150, but if you want to use Magento it's usually a minimum of $350 from last time I checked to around an upwards of $800.

It honestly depends on the functions you want your site to have. If you want it as a fully functioning ecommerce site, complete with checkout and cart, you're probably looking around $500 at the minimum.

Edit: This is if you are outsourcing to independent contractors or other countries. Using a U.S firm or an actual brick and mortar one will run you into the low $X,XXX range most likely.

 

[Pain]

I'm having a site built for $320 atm, just saying.

 

[DMR]

Virtual, I checked out your services on your thread. You seem talented but I'm only getting a general idea for now but when I do decide to get it started, I'll definitely contact you. Would you be able to do the whole secure checkout and cart thing? From scratch to finish or would I have to get someone to finish what you cannot do? I have absolutely no clue on how these things are made from the ground up so pardon my ignorance.

Panda, can you tell me where I can contact these Indian developers? I'm a little weary of trying them out because I have no references or know anything about their service. Maybe, my paranoia will lessen as I see the professionalism of their business.

Thank you for the responses.

 

I could do it all for you. My rates on something like this start at about $800+ depending on features needed.

 

[Virtual]

Virtual, I checked out your services on your thread. You seem talented but I'm only getting a general idea for now but when I do decide to get it started, I'll definitely contact you. Would you be able to do the whole secure checkout and cart thing? From scratch to finish or would I have to get someone to finish what you cannot do? I have absolutely no clue on how these things are made from the ground up so pardon my ignorance.

Panda, can you tell me where I can contact these Indian developers? I'm a little weary of trying them out because I have no references or know anything about their service. Maybe, my paranoia will lessen as I see the professionalism of their business.

Thank you for the responses.

I can build the whole thing from scratch, feel free to contact me in future.