What
are the costs of designing and operating a Website?
Competitive website Development and Maintenance Rates
By
maintaining strict control
of our overheads and using least cost
components in designing websites, we are able to offer extremely
competitive rates. Actual costs will obviously depend on the amount of
work required to meet our customer's specifications but we have found
that an average 3 page site would cost around R
2000.00 to develop. This
would cover the overall website design theme and navigation, inserting
user provided text (300 words per page) and images (2 per page), upload
and test on-site and initial submission to the search engines.
The use of a pre-defined template could reduce costs considerably - for an example see Monster Templates. There are many suppliers of templates - just Google "website templates". We would be happy to assist in tailoring a template of your choice.
Normally we will give a fixed price quote based on our client's specification - this would be subject to no more than minimal changes during development. If major changes are required we will a revised quote.
Although we are a South African operation, we will gladly accept commissions from
other countries subject to our normal payment conditions. Exchange
rates will be as applicable on the date of the transaction being
processed by our bank.
Our
terms are 50% payable on acceptance by the client of the mutually agreed final specification
and 50% on publication of the completed website to the client's domain.
Subsequent
updating for a website will be subject to either another quote or will
be billed for on a time and material basis. For your information, the
current maintenance rate for 2010 is R
222.00 per hour.
Would
you like to convert rates to your own
currency?
Virtual Tours
The minimum
price for a Virtual Tour in the Johannesburg area is R
1250.00. This includes all
travel, photography, standard web page creation, web hosting and
software licenses for up to 20 panoramas.
Additional panoramas will be charged at R
275.00 each.
N.B. There
are no other recurring charges and our policy for Virtual Tours is that you only pay when you are completely
satisfied with each panoramic
view.
Subject to available resources, we will also undertake projects outside of the Johannesburg area - just ask
us to quote.
Website Hosting
We
do not offer a website hosting service at this time but are happy
to assist our clients enter into a contract with an Internet Service
Provider (ISP). For information and
planning purposes, approximate current costs in South Africa for a
Windows Server host are:
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Domain Registration:
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+- R
230.00
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Domain
Annual fee:
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+- R
70.00
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Hosting - Set up
Charge:
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+- R 175.00
(one-time)
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Hosting - Monthly:
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+- R 50.00
(monthly)
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Search Engine Submission
Websites
developed by Pennyroyal Systems are optimised to incorporate the keywords
defined by the client that are likely to be
used to enter a query into an Internet search engine. These keywords will be
incorporated as far as possible in the copy used on the site pages
either by modifying existing documents or creating new text.
Where
possible we will submit websites using the free services that are
available, however, it should be noted that there is a general trend for
the various Search Engines to only offer chargeable directory entries.
The
initial site submission is included in the initial price quoted for the website
creation. An on-going Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) service involving
the analysis of site statistics and modifications can be undertaken for
an additional fee.
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