How much do agencies usually charge for design and coding?

[addz123]

Just curious,

If I was running a business and used a proper agency, how much would they usually charge for design and coding a standard website?

e.g. Agency in Sheffield and agency in London prices.

Cheers.

 

[Skinner]

My friend Jim runs an agency (he's originally from yorkshire but based off shore now, his prices didn't change), and for a standard website, nothing fancy he charges £600-1000, including domain, hosting etc.

 

[ratboy]

If I was running a business and used a proper agency, how much would they usually charge for design and coding a standard website?

e.g. Agency in Sheffield and agency in London prices.

I think that's a very broad question.

Is it eCommerce? 3 page with custom imagery? 20 page corporate?

 

[alex]

I think it depends on what you mean by "standard". I've worked with a few agencies that have developed small sites for around £2k. For that you get a dedicated account manager, a designer and coder and the site built within a week, following a process of design, review, amend, review etc. Here in London a top end PHP developer can be on £250-£400 per day, .net developer on more, designer on £300 etc so £2k is arguably fairly reasonable. Some agencies also lease their developers for around £1k per day.

If you were a one person operation building a WP site you could probably build the same site in a day.

The difference is that the agency usually has a pool of people with specific skill sets and experts are expensive.

 

[denchomsky]

Exactly, like saying how much does a standard house cost?

I charge from £249 for a hand built (not wordpress) , coded from scratch 3 page website with domain name and hosting.

More pages, more features = more expensive.

 

[FWSJay]

Bit of a 'Piece of String' question....I suppose the extremes would be £100 - £10,000
Jay

 

[Skinner]

Oh an agency in London who built an adult site for one of my ex-clients charged £6500+vat for a 10-15 page graphic heavy site with a bespoke CMS for handling video/photo upload (flash based), blog and forum etc.

They then charged £125+Vat for each 3 page "tour" we had them make, which was 2-4 a month.

The client then took this to the US and had it all remade 8 months later of almost equal quality for $3500, some people are mad.

As I recall rackspace wanted £12k for the dedicated server because of the ffmpeg which was needed, but evo destroyed and halved for a better spec, I added this coz it may show the site had some complexity for video transcoding, which may explain the £tag.