The costs depend entirely on what you need - we've got something for everyone. Essentially there are two types of costs: Initial Design and a Monthly Subscription. You can mix and match to find the perfect combination for your needs. INITIAL DESIGN With our Free Lite version, you can select an existing design template from our free design skins library, so there is no design cost involved. Or you can invest in a Custom Design, which is the ideal situation for most organizations. We will work with you to develop your own customized web design from scratch, based on your vision and preferences. Costs will vary, but we generally estimate about $3,500 for a nicely-designed medium-sized website with a little bit of motion graphics. A third option is a Hybrid Design, in which you select one of our designs that for one reason or another never made it to production. You would then use it as a starting point for your design, thereby saving you about half of the regular custom design and install costs (so probably about $1500). MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION Your ongoing monthly costs will also depend on the options that best fit your needs. Take a look at the chart below for an overview cost comparison of our packages. Visit the Packages page or click on the package names for more information. Package Comparison
SETUP & MAINTENANCE COST COMPARISON
(1) Reflects an estimate cost for installing a hybrid design (savings from bypassing the design phase).
(2) Reflects our General Tso Package at $80 per month. The "Look Ma No Hands" Package would reduce your yearly operating costs by $540/yr, reducing the 5 year total by $2,100.
(3) Reflects average custom design costs. Of course, there are no setup costs associated with our free templates.
(4) $25,000 is a general estimate of what it would cost to build a website, with a Content Management System and all the functionality you will get with your Gutensite, from the ground up. This is a very conservative estimate, based on our experience building sites just like this. Custom development is intricate and time consuming, and when you add up the hours the costs are simply astounding. This is why development projects for small businesses usually opt to start with an existing CMS, which can save a lot of the basic work. The budget can then be spent on customization. The problem is, commercial CMS's can be expensive, and together with free Open Source solutions, both are often not easily customizable, which results in high costs for anyone that wants to do anything beyond the basic default setup. Our Gutensite CMS was built as a flexible framework, that allows us to easily customize every aspect of a site, for a fraction of the cost of normal custom development.
(5) Average Maintenance, support, and server costs for an independent site. $2,000 is a general estimate of the costs associated with running an independent CMS driven website, assuming very minimal support needs. A traditional HTML website, which requires a developer to implement every text change on your site, would be considerably higher. Our estimate is assuming a conservative $15/mo for hosting ($168/yr), and a mere 2 hours of support and development costs a month (at a modest $75/hr). If you are running an independent site, you will need to be the webmaster (or hire someone to function in this capacity which would cost extra). The webmaster will need to interface with the server and email support at the hosting company, troubleshoot problems with the site or figure out how to use the features of the CMS, apply upgrades and security patches to your CMS when necessary, etc. If you are on your own, and you need help, the support costs could easily exceed this estimate.
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