How to Calculate Website Design Costs: 8 Factors That Determine Price

Website is an important marketing and sales tool in the digital age. Potential customers often tend to visit a business’s Website to explore products before deciding to buy. Understanding the value of a Website, many businesses have focused on investing in making their “online stores” modern, eye-catching, faster, and mobile-friendly.

In a fiercely competitive market, to stand out from your competitors, owning a Sales website, Introduction website to promote your professional brand has become an essential factor. So how much does it cost to design a website? The 8 important factors below will help you somewhat estimate the cost of designing and maintaining your website.

1. Website Interface

The interface is the face of the Website, creating an impression for customers when they first visit your Website. Just like you are “decorating” your store, the Web interface must be designed to be impressive, eye-catching, with sharp images and a clear layout to attract and retain customers on the Website. The interface helps position the brand so it must also be designed in sync with the brand identity. So that when customers just look at the logo, color, and layout, they can recognize which brand’s Website it is.

Currently, there are 2 directions for designing a website interface:

• According to the available interface: SEO-standard website design according to the available interface is favored by many businesses because of its cost savings, diverse designs, and flexible customization. In Adsmo’s template warehouse, the interface templates are diverse in fields and industries with a cost of 1,500,000 VND including domain name and hosting.
• On demand: Website design on demand requires designers and programmers to spend a lot of effort and brainpower to build a professional, exclusive website that reflects the business’s own style, so it takes more time and money. Depending on the customer’s requirements, the cost of website design will have different prices.

2. Website Setup

2.1 Domain Name

The domain name is the address of the website, similar to your house number. The website domain contributes significantly to helping businesses position their brand. Therefore, it is necessary to choose a domain name that is concise and simple, so that customers can immediately know the content of the website when looking at it, but at the same time it must be unique, interesting, and impressive from the first time they see it.

The price of a website domain name depends mainly on the domain name extension. For example: In Vietnam, the domain name .vn, .com.vn will cost more than international domain names such as .com, .net, .org. The cost of a domain is quite cheap, however, if you choose a special domain name that coincides with a large field or a famous brand, the price will also be more expensive.

Domain name costs can be paid monthly or yearly at the following prices:

• Vietnamese domain names will cost about 750,000 VND/year
• International domain names cost only about 299,000 VND/year.

2.2. Hosting Server

Hosting is likened to the “land” where the house (Website) is built. The Hosting Server is responsible for operating and storing all data of the Website on the Internet.

For example: Any customer interaction on the Website such as viewing products, searching,… is also stored on Hosting. Therefore, the larger the scale of the Website, the more content and functions, the higher the Hosting capacity required. Consider your own needs before choosing a suitable Hosting package so that the Website operates stably and avoids waste.

Depending on the needs of customers, Hosting services are often divided into packages:

• The basic package costs around 80,000 – 185,000 VND/month
• The business package costs around 280,000 – 460,000 VND/month

2.3 SSL Certificate

SSL certificate (global technology security standard) helps protect the website and user access data. Most businesses consider SSL certificate as a necessary factor because it is a signal to customers whether the website is safe or not, thereby encouraging them to fill out contact forms and buy products.

Depending on your needs and the size of your website, you can choose a suitable SSL certificate package with prices ranging from 160,000 VND/year for small businesses to 7,990,000 VND/year for large e-commerce platforms or businesses with high brand recognition. The price of purchasing an SSL certificate also varies between providers.

3. Website Design

3.1 Basic features

Any website must ensure that it integrates basic features such as: Home page, introduction page, news/blog page, product/service page, contact page, menu bar, search bar,…

Basic features are often created quickly with modules, so it doesn’t take much time and effort, especially when you use an available interface template.

3.2. Advanced features

Currently, to reach target customers, websites need to integrate some advanced features. However, these are also factors that greatly affect the cost of website design. Therefore, carefully consider which features are really necessary and can be replaced with other optimal solutions that are both effective and cost-effective.

• E-commerce features

E-commerce related features that you can add to your sales website such as: Online payment gateway, security, LDAP, cookies, product suggestions, booking features, location, maps, directions, account management system, orders,…

• SEO integration

SEO features will help your website achieve high rankings on search results pages of Google, Bing,…

• Responsive feature

Responsive is an important factor for both users and search engines to evaluate a business’s website. The website will automatically adjust to display compatibility on many different devices.

Website design costs vary widely, depending on the number and complexity of the Web features you require. Contact Adsmo now to receive advice on suitable features and optimal costs.

4. Website content

Content is an indispensable part of website design. Content includes descriptions of products, services, news, slogans, banner text, etc. presented in the form of text, images, videos. In particular, articles must be optimized for SEO standards.

Usually, content will be built in parallel with the process of Website design to save time as well as ensure synchronization with the interface. After the website is launched, you can do it yourself or hire another content creation team.

Content costs are not fixed but fluctuate according to your needs such as word count, uniqueness, SEO standards, content type,… and are usually calculated by the number of articles such as 1-10 articles, 20 articles, 30 articles,…

During the content creation process, businesses should also consider choosing a CMS content management system to support content management and editing.

5. Website maintenance and upkeep

In addition to the cost of designing a website for your business, you also need to plan the cost of maintaining and upkeep of the website. Including:

– Mandatory costs: domain name renewal, hosting

– Optional costs: SSL renewal, website maintenance, support fees

6. Optimize website design costs with Adsmo

Adsmo is a leading provider of complete website design services. We always strive to provide the best solutions with a professional website design process to bring maximum efficiency while still ensuring optimal costs for customers.

• The website interface ensures layout, color consistency, and brand identity for each customer. Unique, creative design, unique interface.
• Modern, user-friendly website administration system. Easily add, edit, and delete content and information. Customers can refer to the website management service price list.
• Website design meets Google’s SEO standards, UX/UI standards, 100% compatible with devices and browsers.
• Dedicated consulting, committed to supporting customers during website operation. Fix, warranty, and maintain the website quickly, helping the website operate stably.
• Design a cheap SEO-standard website, suitable for the budget and needs of customers.

Customers interested in Adsmo’s reputable and professional website design service can refer to our detailed full website design price list HERE.

Contact the hotline now 0356.105.388 for consultation on the most suitable comprehensive SEO standard website design package.

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• Terminology in Web Design
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