Darr Solutions Prices
Our prices page is intended to provide you with comparative information about the cost of our products and services and is not a price guarantee. Use this to get an idea about what your website costs will be with us. Please contact us if you have questions or need a quote. We can discuss the problem you need solved and can fix a price at that time.
New Websites
Existing Websites
E-commerce (Shopping Cart)
Blogs
Services
New Websites
The cost of a website can vary dramatically based on the number of pages you want, graphic content, etc. The following lists some rough pricing for one of our powerful self-managed custom websites. The actual number of pages on your site isn't a large factor in the cost of your page unless you want us to write the content. You will be able to add or remove pages and easily modify your content using our powerful editor!
Note: we can provide training early in your website development allowing you to begin writing your own content even as we are working on the custom layout for your site.
- $350-650(1) to build a simple custom website
- Custom graphics/logo/branding $225 and up(2)
- $5/page - you write your own content and meta tags or $20/page(3) to load and format page content provided by you electronically plus $15/page(4) to customize meta-tags for better SEO or $100/page to write and format page content based on an interview (~300 words/page)
- $125 personal training session
- $11/year for the domain name
- $10/month to host the website
- $35/hr set up hosting on one of the popular hosting company's servers.
(1) More complex sites can range from $650 - $5000.
(2) You will need to get a quote for custom graphics.
(3) Followup changes and tweaks will be charged at our regular service rate.
(4) We normally customize the home page meta-tags (description and keywords) and that is used for all other
     pages but it is much better to customize these for every page.
Please contact us with your specifics to get a ballpark estimate.
Existing websites
We also get requests to move your existing website into our environment, converting it to provide you with the same capabilites as our new sites. The following lists some rough pricing for upgrading your current site (appearing exactly as it is) into our powerful self-managed environement.
Our sites use the .aspx rather than the .html extension (i.e. index.aspx instead of index.html). We may need to configure page redirections to ensure that your pages already in search engine indexes will still open the correct page on your upgraded site).
- $250-500 to setup the new version of your site with the layout and style of your existing one.
- $50 to configure page redirections (amount is for approximately 20 pages).
- $20/page to copy each page's content to the new environment
- $125 personal training session
- $10/month to host your website
Blogs
We recommend using WordPress.org or Blogengine.net software for your blog. With WordPress, your blog can be incorporated on your existing site -or- you can start a blog on the WordPress.com Blog Site.
If you wish to blog only and not have a website your best bet is to create a blog on the WordPress site. Blogs on the WordPress are free for a very basic blog and for a charge you can obtain Premium Features, such as a shorter URL of your choosing (name@name.com, etc.).
Services
The following lists prices for the common services we can provide for you. If you don't see it here, just contact us and we will give you a quote.
Hourly Rates for specific types of service.
- $30/hr text content modifications to your pages. You can request these changes by phone or by e-mail
- $35/hr General services on your behalf such as setting up accounts on other services, researching to help you make service selections, etc.
- $35/hr Consulting to help you configure your e-mail client (i.e Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) to use your account.
- $40/hr Consulting to trouble shoot your existing website.
- $40/hr Changing the custom layout of your site [1]
- $40/hr for custom graphic design such as logos, letterhead, etc.
- $50/hr[1] (2 hr. minimum) custom ASP.NET, or javascript development for advanced functionality on your site.
- $2/mile Travel to your location to provide any of the services below. Mileage will be based on the round trip route and miles indicated on Google maps "Get Directions" from our door to yours.
- $25 Add a flash object that has been created by another developer to one of your web pages. Note: this could be a video or audio clip for example.
- $60/page to write and format page content for you based on an interview (~300 words/page).
- $20/page to customize the page meta-tags to match each page content. (improves SEO)
- $15.00 Create an e-mail forwarder on your website (i.e. have an e-mail address using your website's domain that automatically gets forwarded to your home e-mail). Note: we cannot gurantee that forwarding will work in your situation.
[1] This often can be negotiable depending on whether this would be attractive to other clients! The powerful functionality you get with our Content Management System has often been developed based on a specific need of a particular client. If you need a certain type of functionality that we currently don't have and could make available as part of our CMS, we have discounted development costs as much as 50% to 90%.