How much is the going rate to produce a site similar to this?

[bacon333]

If I were to have a page similar to http://www.fashion-hair-jewelry.com built from the ground up, how much would it cost?

Assume that a database also needs to be created. All product descriptions, cost, names, etc are on paper (so they would need to be typed into a database).

I was thinking around $3,500 - $4,000. I'm not quite sure how much it usually costs.

Anyone know?

 

[dquan97]

if you already have the text and pictures, I don't think it should cost more than $1,000-$2,000 to build. Most of your cost will be on the registration and login pages...the rest are static pages.

 

[bacon333]

Wow, I would think the database alone would cost over a grand.

 

[MadPeriot]

dquan97 is right. Given the fact if you have the content/graphics/pictures up front. That website is just static 1 page design with same frames.

 

[bacon333]

and this estimate is assuming the coding is done from scratch and not through some ecommerce package?

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: bacon333
and this estimate is assuming the coding is done from scratch and not through some ecommerce package?

wait a minute, you didn't mention that there is ecommerce capabilities. Might want to update your linkage to http://www.fashion-hair-jewelry.com/shop/default.php

Knowing that, your cost depends if you can outsource the coding overseas. If not, your cost may exceed $4K for a custom shopping cart, SSL, and individual member pages.

 

[bacon333]

Thank you.

 

[dwil]

I put up www.bigjimsrims.com using OSCommerce. It was something I was able to do myself. A little PHP and database work. All the customization took a little longer, but I didn't put $4k worth of time into it.

It can be done cheaper.

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: dwil
I put up www.bigjimsrims.com using OSCommerce. It was something I was able to do myself. A little PHP and database work. All the customization took a little longer, but I didn't put $4k worth of time into it.

It can be done cheaper.

Nice, but you may want to consider putting actual photoshopped thumbnails of the rims on the frontpage, not just HTML-resized pics. What you are doing now makes your site load a lot slower, and the aliasing also looks like ass.