This is the public-facing site for a dotcom that I have run since 2001.
Well, I'm always telling my clients that, if at all possible, they should show pricing on their Web sites. After all, it's one of the main reasons people go to your site -- "How much are those skis? Jeez, really?"
It's not an easy thing to give pricing for Web development in the absence of a scope definition, and you should always be skeptical of developers who quote you a "per page" rate. One of the great things about developing with a content management system is that adding 50 more pages is no big deal, as long as those pages follow the same rules you've already set up. But there are a lot of factors which can complicate price quoting:
- How many types of content will be on the site?
- How will they be interrelated?
- How many people will be managing content, and how complex is that workflow? How many roles do we need to define?
- How fussy is the visual design going to be?
- What out-of-the-ordinary functionality are we going to have to implement?
And so on. But, to answer the most basic question, a very simple Drupal site can be as little as $3000 to develop from concept to "going live," and take only a couple of weeks. More complex sites can range from $5K to $15K, and sites with a lot of advanced functionality can go significantly higher (when we start getting into custom module development to support very specific non-standard functionality, like interfacing with back-end legacy systems).
There, how's that?
