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This article helps you evaluate or justify the projected cost for your Web Development project. If you have been thinking about developing a web based application or even a simple website but are not sure about its costs then this article will help you come to a price range or even exact costs.

First and foremost it is important to know few technical terms. So I’ll try to give you one liners for help as they will provide clarity on costing.

Website – Collection of html pages. These are usually static pages with fixed contents

Web application – Any software that runs on a web browser.

Web Development – Any kind of programming done for a web application. There are few popular languages today e.g. php, aspx, jsp etc for programming a website

If you need an online presence for your company and need a simple and elegant website then it is very easy to evaluate the costs. The main portion of costing here is for designing a custom layout for your website and translating it into an html page. This cost varies depending upon who is designing it for you. It should cost you in the range of $75 – $ 200 at max for this work. Oh yes, there are few websites which sell ready made templates and they are as low as $50 for each template. Then comes the costing for inner pages on your website like ‘contact us’ page or ‘about us’ page. This should range from $10 – $30 for each page. This way, you can come to a very close estimate on what your website should cost if you need to establish a basic online identity.

The task gets tougher when you have programming involved on your website. This essentially means that you have few pages that pull data from the backend database.

The complexity of the programming needed will usually depend upon how big is your database and what are the dependencies involved between different sets of data.

On larger websites or web applications there are various components that contribute for its costing. The easy part is to separate out the static pages, which are like simple html pages with no database. These pages usually have fixed text or image based contents. Their costing can be estimated based on number of such pages you need on the website.

You can apply the costing formula given in above paragraph for this costing. Do not forget to add the cost for custom design of home page or the template here. It will be needed regardless of any programmable pages on your website.

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