Lower Your Web Development Costs- Here’s How!
Sent by Maneet Puri on July 25th 2008 source
The world of web development is taking a serious turn. With competitive marketplace and the rat race to surpass others, professional web development services are on an all time high.
And in a bid to get cheaper deals, people often end up with an unprofessional website design that fails to impress. However, with a little labor from your end you can have your cake and eat it too.
Here are some tips that will help you keep your costs to the minimum at the same time ensuring a professional website.
Know What Exactly You Want
Many web development companies quote flat rate for a website development project. The inflated rates cover all the additional costs that may apply to the project or any expenses that may arise in due course of the project.
However, if you have a clear idea about what exactly you want, you can compromise on the price. Tell your developer what your requirements are and ask for an hourly rate. This wouldn’t get you big savings but when you talk about huge projects, you save a chunk of money.
Therefore, before you and hire your website developer, chart out a website plan yourself. Make a list of all your requirements and define the essential purpose of the website.
Provide the Design Material
This works best for the designers. If you can do the designing part yourself, provide the web development company with that and pay them for only the development costs. This way, you’ll get exactly what you want and the development costs will be reduced drastically! Moreover, you can launch your website in lesser time than what it would have taken you after the design & development process.
But don’t confuse the developer instead of easing his task. It’s no use providing a design that needs to be redone completely. Make sure the design is professional and you have keen knowledge about its details like page widths, colors, and typography.
Keep the Content Ready
A great way to ensure this is to prepare you content before you get onto to the development process. To make up for the missing content, web developers need to work a little more and that translates into more costs.
Use the Free Stuff There are several open source software packages available on the internet that you can use for your website. Blogs, forums, wiki… there are several things that can bring down your development. Consider using these tools and bring down the costs associated with development.
About the author:
maneet puri is the managing director of LeXolution IT Services, a premier web development company that caters its clients with powerful webiste design services and KPO services. with over 10 years of experience in the industry he has substantial expertise in the industr
