Introduction
Perhaps you’re an entrepreneur about to launch a brand new business. On the other hand, you might be an established company that’s been operating in Wales for over 30 years. We have a wide range of businesses contact us for our web design services.
One of the most frequent questions is why web design quotes vary significantly.
Customers sometimes feel like they’re comparing apples with pears when one e-mail quotes £1k for a 7-page website while another business quotes over £ 5k.
So, it’s hard for some businesses to decide which web design company to choose.
However, as highly experienced web designers, we can help explain why web design quotes differ so much here in Cardiff.
Would you like a freelancer to design your new website?
Freelancers by a country mile are often the cheapest option when designing a new website for your business. The reason for this is simple: usually, the large agencies have such high overhead due to fancy offices in an inner city area, and often, they will have admin staff, front of house, and also many other costs.
With a freelancer, you’re taking all the costs away, especially if the freelancer works from home. So, what you’re getting is a website that can be well designed and often look brilliant at less cost.
The downside is that web designers often get very busy at two periods during the year. Those timeframes are during Christmas and the build-up to it and also before the summer. Often, these are key times for, say, construction businesses or e-commerce businesses in the lead-up to Christmas.
A freelancer can often get overwhelmed with too much work and enquiries, so the turnaround time to complete the web design might sometimes take too long. However, this becomes much simpler to manage with an agency of ten-plus staff.
Also, some freelancers might be one trick ponies, meaning they only design websites in WordPress, Drupal or Wix. However, when you pick a web design agency, they will often have multiple web designers who are highly experienced at designing websites using various content management systems.
Small agency
A small web design agency often offers the best of both worlds. You often don’t have to wait as long to get a website designed as you would if you were to pick a freelancer.
At the same time, a small web design agency with, say, seven or fewer staff doesn’t have the same overheads as a web design agency in Cardiff city centre or Cardiff Bay, which employs 50+ staff. Therefore, it has massive overheads. Regardless of the design, the brochure website often has to have a minimum pricing structure of 5k before they agree to design a brand new website.
A large agency
Some businesses often have no option but to choose a large agency. The reason is that if they are a medium to large company, they will often have fierce online competition. For example, an online electrical retailer will face massive competition, and a few leading brands might dominate the market.
Therefore, a company that wants to compete with these often needs help with its digital marketing, such as improving the business’s organic search engine optimisation, helping with the company’s branding, and using split testing, sometimes called A/B testing, to refine and improve the website.
Therefore, in large web design agencies, you often have SEO consultants, web developers, web designers, social media account managers, account coordinators, PPC or Google Adwords experts, and managers to keep everything on track. So, as you can see, these web design businesses often can’t even come close to the cost that a freelancer can offer to design a website.
In conclusion
We hope that this article clarifies why web design costs can vary so much here in South Wales. As highly experienced web designers, we can assist you if your company requires a brand-new website.
We design the following websites:
-Drupal website
– Joomlas websites
– WordPress websites
Why not contact us for a free and no-obligation quote:
We have an amiable team of staff on hand to help you if your business needs help to improve its search engine optimisation or if you require a brand new website to be designed.