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We at Red Door Designs like to keep it simple. Our rate is $50 per hour. Shop around, and you'll find that this is lower than a lot of design shops and contractors. Our roots, however, are in small business, which often operate on small budgets. We are a small business, as well; we don't believe that you have to have a swanky loft in a downtown hi-rise or walls full of plasma screens and funky art to provide good service. Oh, we appreciate great art, as our designs will tell you...but we believe our products say everything there is to say about us.

What we will do is create a proposal for your custom site that outlines the entire process and estimates the hours required and total cost (minus expenses for software and various certifications and registrations) not to be exceeded. Other shops offer package or per-page prices, wherein you pay hundreds of dollars for a template site that took three hours to port, and then they tack on service charges for things like document scanning. Red Door Designs will charge you only for the time it takes to make your Web presence a success, and will even give you an account of our time spent--whether it's spent coding HTML, scripting popup menus, creating Flash interactions, or programming a database. It's the simplest way of doing business, and in this business, we believe it's the best.

New to the whole process? Not sure how much time it takes to build a site? That of course depends on the size of the site and its features. Below are some rough estimates to guide you.

Small site (2-5 pages): 6-16 hours ($300-$800), from setup to launch. Features typically include simple HTML navigation and links, simple design and graphics, 2-5 pages listing services, rates, etc. (like this site).

Large site (6-12+ pages): 20-40 hours ($1000-$2000). Features may include advanced scripting, database design and interaction, Flash design and programming, or streaming media.

Ecommerce site: 40-60+ hours ($2000-$3000 and up). Features include shopping cart installation and customization, SSL certificate installation, integration of shipping and merchant services, custom storefront, client training for product updates and maintenance.