Prices

Our fees to build a website are variable and customisations are extra. You will pay the build cost as a one-off charge, some basic examples shown below. For instance, a Shoestring budget site would use a free WordPress.org theme. Premium themes, are extra but very useful to cater for a complex website. Other costs you need to budget for are adding Social Media, SEO tags, and submitting your site Google as well as adding Google Analytics.

Other separate costs – you will also need to purchase domain name and webhosting on a yearly renewing basis; We can recommend a good hosting provider, which you will pay per year. For an extra fee, I can be contracted to assist with site updates and maintenance.

Shoestring starter site: Using a free template we can build you a one-pager or simple 3-pager site in HTML5 for $290. Extra pages are $95 per page. You will need to provide us your own content which we insert for you. You will not have access to admin to edit this site yourself; you would have to get us to update it for you. With this package you will also need to purchase: Hosting, and Domain name.

We configure a basic WordPress CMS, theme, and add up to 10 pages of your provided content. We optimise all your photos, create pages, sliders, menus, footers and widgets. If you require more than 10 pages you would either load the rest yourself, or for an extra fee we will load everything for you. We provide 2 hrs free training to teach you to add and edit. With this package you will also need to purchase: SEO, Hosting, Domain name, and a PremiumTheme..

This package is for a simple basic 5 paged WordPress site using a free theme. You would provide your own content and we would insert it for you. Extra pages (that we configure,) are $95 per page. You will be able to edit this site yourself for the future. Training for how to manage the admin is $50 per hr. Optionals: Premium Themes are from $50-80 extra. You will also need a Domain name, Hosting, and we recommend our SEO & Social links package.

Add this combo package to the basic 10 paged WordPress Package, (instead of adding the SEO only package,) in order to add an extra 10 extra pages content to be loaded by us. We will also load all the SEO.

All 20 pages content added for you and SEO optimised as well as Social Media links and Google Products applied to your site.

Purchase this SEO Optimisation Package so that up to 10 pages can be properly optimised and submitted to Google – this package includes SEO metatags, descriptions and keywords, and add Google Analytics Tracking.

We activate all the recommended Google Products such as webmaster tools, sitemaps, social pages like Google My Business, and Google + and Facebook,
LinkedIn (if required).
We create posts on these sites so they can count on Google Directory as an indexed link.

Add this Catalogue Package if you have up to 30 products to be displayed. You can use this for the purpose of display without showing price or purchasing. To get the shop active, entails variable extra costs.
To activate e-commerce, prices start at a further $480, although actual cost is negotiated at our meeting.

We recommend you pay direct to FastComet.com hosting. You can choose to pay them monthly or yearly. However please contact me before you choose a hoster, as they may not provide sufficient space or tools to manage WordPress sites.

Your site will require maintenance and upgrades applied throughout the year. Some updates are small and some are major, requiring more time – so if we have to spend extra time fixing technical issues with the server, then our charge is $50 per hour, as when required.
We also offer to train you in a $50 one-off session so you can do the future updates yourself.

We review old sites and make recommendations to improve. This could mean a brand new site, or just improving SEO or adding new content here and there.
We also check you have Social Media inbound links, https, and SafeWeb verification. Cost of 1 hour Review: $50.

You will need to purchase a domain name and renew it yearly. You should search for a Domain Registrar company on Google or get us to purchase it on your behalf. (price is approx $25 p.a.
Webdesinz can take care of the set up of the domain on your hosting.

If you are too busy to update your site, then we can be hired as your editor or Virtual Assistant at $50 per hour. We can also be hired to come on site and take photos, gather and write content, (copywriting).

Training is at the rate of $50 per hour. We have a Special Offer rate of four hours for the price of three.

Optional Variable Costs

Themes: These vary in cost from free, through to $80 – 90 NZ. www.wordpress.org for the free downloads, or www.themeforest.net for the premium themes.

Website Hosting: We recommend FastComet.com which you would pay direct to them. However you still need an admin person to perform system updates and maintenance on your website, and I can provide that service @ $50 per hour.

Royalty Free images: You may decide to provide your own copyrighted images. If extra images are needed, then you could purchase some at your own extra cost: www.photodune.net There are many other websites providing images such as www.123RF.com, Istockphoto.com.

Shopping Cart Checkout hook up to Paypal: We can connect your Woocommerce catalogue to Paypal Standard checkout for $490. You may need to contact your Bank to arrange a Bank Merchant Account and we leave that part to you.

Each shopping cart plugin to be configured: $100 per plugin. Some plugins must be separately purchased -an example are Windcave payment gateways, Xero, PoliPay. We would work out the overall costs upon consultation.

Mailchimp Newsletters plugin:
To set up a Mailchimp account and configure lists and web form plugin $100. You will get a free account for up to 2000 subscribers and thereafter Mailchimp charge for higher numbers.

Get Timely Online Appointment System
$100 -200 depending on the number of services you require us to list.

Ad-hoc costs $50 per hour.

If you wish to hire my services by the hour, then casual ad-hoc content uploading and editing, copy writing, PDF creations, design of Business Cards for print; SEO tasks: $50 per hour.

Onsite visits/consultations for 1 hour, $60. (the extra $10 is for travelling up to half an hour). Visits are for consultations and gathering content, and might include photographing or videoing material to go on your website.