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Brett Davis Website Design

EFFECTIVE, DISTINCTIVE AND INEXPENSIVE WEBSITES FOR SMALL BUSINESS

HOW MUCH WILL MY WEBSITE COST?

There are three basic cost components in websites - the domain name, the hosting and the design.

1. DOMAIN NAME

I recommend that Australian small businesses should register a domain name like mybusiness.com.au because this is the type of web address that most people will be looking for online. Your domain name must be related to the registered name of your business.

Domain names can be obtained at a variety of prices from a variety of registrars. All .com.au domain names must be registered for two years. Since 2007 I have been recommending a registrar called Hostess which is currently charging only $25 for .com.au domain names for two years.

2. HOSTING

Your website has to reside on a server which the world can access, and this is achieved through the use of a hosting service. As with registrars, there are many hosting companies and a large variety of prices. Australian hosts tend to charge a lot for not much - typically about $200 or more per year for a small site.

I can provide no-fuss hosting for your website for $50 per annum - less than a dollar per week! If you would like another company to host your site, that is okay as well, but you will have to arrange that yourself.

3. DESIGN

This is where I come in. Costs will vary according to the complexity of the site. My minimum charge is now $500. Most of the examples displayed here (with three exceptions) cost no more than this.