Cheap & Cheerful Web Designer

[KidsBeeHappy]

Hi

I have courier who has a basic web project;

I need a 2 page basic website, (non transactional). And I need a logo and a banner ad.

The domains etc are all registered and basic hosting is with 1&1.

Looking for something cheap and cheerful, templates etc all OK.
Budget around £50

Contact me if interested.

 

[YODspica]

£50 ? you probably spend more on a pair of trainers .

 

[jgrock]

Hi

I have courier who has a basic web project;

I need a 2 page basic website, (non transactional). And I need a logo and a banner ad.

The domains etc are all registered and basic hosting is with 1&1.

Looking for something cheap and cheerful, templates etc all OK.
Budget around £50

Contact me if interested.

Very unfair budget... you need to add another zero at least... £500 - the amount of effort for £50... you pay cheap you will get cheap

 

[GreatSEO]

Cheap and Cheerful Web Designer????

Try www.lassany.com

Dave

 

[matt.chatterley]

Um. We can be quite cheerful, if that helps?

 

[YODspica]

Cheap and Cheerful Web Designer????

Try www.lassany.com

Dave

I fail to note the cheerful part claim.

 

[UKSEOAgency]

we can be quite cheep and cheerfull on web designs - and as its only a 2 page site ill throw in the page creation as a xmas bonus

 

[sabian1982]

Try http://www.templatemonster.com/

Pick up a template for £25 and then get a medium priced coder/webmaster for an hours work adding your content and making any small edits you need.

 

[streetslocal]

Come on you lot be fair,some people dont have the budget at first.
What the hell its christmas
I can do it for them for £50.
If they take the hosting from us at £2.99 per month

Drop me a PM if intrested.

 

[oldeagleeye]

Streets. Have you seen old VM in Merlin on BBC - magic. Rob

 

[thedesigntailor]

Try http://www.templatemonster.com/

Pick up a template for £25 and then get a medium priced coder/webmaster for an hours work adding your content and making any small edits you need.

I think he needs a logo too. I would be interested to see the results of this. It's an incredibly low budget but I've seen people offering such prices on gumtree (with crap results though).

 

[streetslocal]

Streets. Have you seen old VM in Merlin on BBC - magic. Rob

Dont get it....

 

[streetslocal]

I think he needs a logo too. I would be interested to see the results of this. It's an incredibly low budget but I've seen people offering such prices on gumtree (with crap results though).

Couldnt do the logo in that price:redface:

 

[IT Training UK]

yup, you really need to up that price before you see a worthy job my friend.

 

[streetslocal]

yup, you really need to up that price before you see a worthy job my friend.

I happen to disagree.
Its profit profit profit for some people.
But im offering this as a ukbf offer to boxby as they are respected members of the forum.
And i would also make money from the hosting?

 

[Esk247]

i do websites at £10 per month for 2/3 pages and that includes the hosting but agreed..don't expect it to be some great flashy website with lots of clicky things and animations..we're talking istockphotos or a days photography if you're close enough or willing to pay for expenses.

decent websites with logo's etc are over £150 i usually find..thats for basic, quick work.

 

[360interactive]

decent websites with logo's etc are over £150 i usually find..thats for basic, quick work.

And the rest surely? :|

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

The customer (and I know of several hundred in exactly the same position) are people that use email all the time, pdas etc and mobile internet and acheive what they want from that. They are basically looking for a very basic webpage to act basically as an electronic business card. They are not looking for online sales, or transactions,just something that gives more information about their business. No flashy stuff, no animation. Just a very basic first toe into the website world.

 

[Esk247]

yes....a homepage thats quite colourful..can be a standard image using photoshop and then a contact us page....they can be nice and cheap..istockphoto images are nice for those! they look like a really nice A5 flyer then and print out well.

they can be very cheap.

£150 and the rest..? << not really...£150 or £20 per month for a semi-decent website these days...using a standard layout ofcourse, no tricky flash or in depth css just the basic html with a bit of css for the menus etc.

 

[PhillipB@PLS]

I have pmd you.

 

[EliteLimitedUK]

Ho Boxby,

Our website is down at the moment but can be certain for a UKBF member I can get my design team that will design your website for £30 Including a banner and logo.

We wont give you a cheap (crap) site, we will give you what we give all our customers who have tight budgets.

If you want You can contact me on EliteLimitedUK at Live co uk or you can call me on 280 3892 anytime from 9am to 11pm

We will give you some time to think about this offer, Or send me your details and I will get intouch with you.

Regards


EliteLimitedUK

 

[360interactive]

Ho Boxby,

Who you calling a 'ho' ????

 

[streetslocal]

The customer (and I know of several hundred in exactly the same position) are people that use email all the time, pdas etc and mobile internet and acheive what they want from that. They are basically looking for a very basic webpage to act basically as an electronic business card. They are not looking for online sales, or transactions,just something that gives more information about their business. No flashy stuff, no animation. Just a very basic first toe into the website world.

Boxby,
Pm on its way

 

[JackieC]

I do a one-page-web plus 5x email accounts on a .co.uk domain for £48 for two years - £2 a month all in. The design is very basic - the client needs to give me some artistic scope for the design and that doesn't include a logo.

So, if the client can get a logo for incorporation into my design - we have an answer for £2 a month.

 

[computaguy]

Hi Boxby,

You know all about my courier software... my wife is a web designer too. I've been in your client's position and to be honest would welcome the work. Only proviso is that we publish a template and they provide the words/images since that can take the most time.

Our preferred host is also 1 and 1 so compatability rules!

 

[hargz]

I have a degree in website design.
Will give it a go for you.
PM me if needed.
Thanks
Sam

 

[Wez]

for £50

why not get a free one ,, and build it yourself.

you say it only has to be basic so dont pay to much.

give it ago before you spend any money.

As for logos ect , they are also free,, just ask any tagger on a forum that has taggers and they make them for free.

Unfortunatly because i,m new i,m not allowed to show you the sort of logos or designs we make.

 

[Flying Hippy]

Hi Boxby,

Thanks for your help about uk delivery question i posted the other week.

I am a trained designer by trade and offer web hosting. If it a simple 2 page job dont mind doing it over my xmas break as am getting boarded at home.

If you need example of my work just pm me.

 

[SLF]

This is better than the January sales! I have no idea how some people make a living from such low prices.

 

[Esk247]

we don't really slf but a jobs a job..you hope that the customer will come back for more once they are impressed with your low prices and good work

doesn't always work out that way though!

 

[SLF]

but what more could they come back for? im not being dismissive, im just curious and amazed by such low prices. after all you have your overheads and taxed to come off that, so what salary must people be getting out of it? what profits are being made after all of those deductions? it must be very little, in which case you would need to sell a lot to make a lot.

 

[Esk247]

well some choose that method of sell alot and fast! telesales...marketing...top of google etc.

others choose the option that if they do a good job for £50 the customer will come back for updates and take a few business cards to pass on to friends..its a slow process but doesn't cost much in outlay actually and can build up in to a trustworthy customer base.

the market for web design is furiously competitive! some are now offering free websites entirely as they have spare server space and just take the option of having a little advert at the bottom of everyones website in the hope that people will click on it and actually buy something.

 

[Matt1959]

you lot competing on price so agressively like this must be bonkers!!! If someone comes back, they're coming back because you're cheap and for no other reason. Once cheap, always cheap and anyway, most people looking for this sort of thing are not after the cheapest job. Makes we wonder sometimes if all someone has got to compete on is price, whats the quality of their work really like

 

[Deleted member 27344]

Our website is down at the moment ...

Not exactly the most confidence setting example.

And I agree with Matt, cheap is cheap.
A website should never be gauged by price.

 

[streetslocal]

Tyhe quality of my work is more than enough for what the client needs.
And money for me is in the long term ie the hosting...

 

[Interconnect IT]

The low end web design/development market is seriously messed up - everyone wants to do web design, but the good stuff isn't easy to get into. Consequence is that the remaining scraps are fought over by small guys.

Really good, highly compatible, tested code costs money. No two ways about it. If you want cheap use something completely off the shelf - there's loads of cheap ad-free services from the likes of BT and similar which can give you an online presence. It'll probably be better quality and more reliable.

As for building up a customer base - is that really as valuable at that end as you might think? Do Google get their annual returns printed by the guy who did Larry's first business card? I very much doubt it. If you deliver cheap and cheerful they won't come back to you when they want expensive swish.

 

[streetslocal]

There is a fine line between cheap and tacky and value for money.

Why shouldnt i offer value for money if i am happy to do so?

As of January 5th we are launching some great packages in fact.

3 page brochure website design only £49.99 then £4.99 per month for hosting and includes a full cms system and free domain name and email addresses.

5 page brochure website design only £69.99 then £4.99 month for hosting and includes a full cms system and free domain name and email addresses.

And ecommerce websites with £49.99 set up fee and then only £9.99 per month with a personalised template of customers choice thats half the price of other companies such as EKM powershop.

 

[Matt1959]

There is a fine line between cheap and tacky and value for money.

Why shouldnt i offer value for money if i am happy to do so?

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well I'm an ordinary punter and have nothing to do with the web industry and I fully support anyones wish to charge low prices. What galls me is that *usually* a really cheap job will be a bad job for the buyer - is this a fair statement?? What happens is they buy cheap stuff through innocence and naievty then 12 months down the line realise that they bought crap and that its better to spend some more money to get a decent job. Nothing wrong with cheap so long as customers are not being ripped off with rubbish work but when the price falls to a level that kind of gives the impression the provider is working for £5 an hour, for me, alarm bells begin to ring:|

 

[Tej]

but when the price falls to a level that kind of gives the impression the provider is working for £5 an hour, for me, alarm bells begin to ring:|

desperation stakes?

 

[Interconnect IT]

You're almost certainly offering a very different service to what we are. We're soon going to be offering some very cheap deals, but it's essentially off-the-shelf.

Your service is perfectly good and acceptable, but I'm pretty certain there's no custom web design in there? It'll be more a case of "here's our templates, pick one, fill in this form, and off we go!" We do offer a broadly similar service to small companies, but at a higher price because ultimately they're getting a day's worth of professional time. Costs money, that does.