website design pricing
All of our website designs are completely custom made! Websites range in size from a basic contact/information starter site with just one page up to a full-scale website with a shopping cart to sell products. You may view some previous work on the portfolio page. Browsing these sites may also give you some ideas of what you might want on your own site.
Before starting your website design, please fill out our website questionnaire. Answering these questions will help us get a good sense of where you would like the design of your new website to go.
basic informational website design
starting at $3,500
Please contact us to request a custom quote for your specific needs.
e-commerce website design
starting at $5,500
Please contact us to request a custom quote for your specific needs.
website maintenance
Lara J Designs will be happy to maintain your website for you. This is great if you do not have have time to maintain the site yourself, do not feel comfortable with the back-end of your website content management system (WordPress, etc), or have a html site that requires coding knowledge to maintain.
Minimum 1 hour – billed at the end of each month if time has accrued. We do not have a base monthly fee, so if you do not change anything on your website that month, you will not receive an invoice. Please ask us for any additional questions for your particular need.
– $80/hour
Prices do not include domain name registration or hosting. For more information about what you need and what companies we recommend, please visit our Website Hosting Page.
Monthly WordPress Software & Plugins Package
$40/month/website (10% savings if you pay per year, $432)
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If you don’t want the hassle with WordPress software and plugin updates, we are more than happy to do that for a fee of $40 per month, per site.
This service includes:
– Weekly checks of your website, software & security to ensure it is functioning properly
– BackupBuddy on-hosting backups or WPEngine hosting backups (if you use WPEngine hosting, see below)
– WordPress Software Update & Plugin Update Management
– If a plugin fails during and update we make, we will fix the issue for you, saving you from needing to pay hourly to have it fixed **
– 15 minutes of WordPress assistance per month as needed (training on how to make changes to your site, etc)
For more information on why you need to keep up with your WordPress Software, please visit this link
**This service does not include general content updates, styling, technical support caused by hosting issues or general software issues that require technical support with the plugin/software developer. We HIGHLY recommend Siteground hosting for all WordPress sites to avoid any hosting problems**
website design faq
OUR RECOMMENDATION – Siteground
Siteground is a fantastic hosting company for WordPress websites. The customer service and uptime is phenomenal, the technical support staff is very helpful, security is top-notch, automated backups run every night, and migration from your development site to your live site is a breeze. They even offer “staging” sites on your hosting so if we are making a large change on your site we can use the separate staging name to make sure everything is all correct before making it live to the world! We have installed WordPress websites on MANY different hosting companies, and have learned which ones are the worst and which are the best. Choosing the right hosting company is imperative to be happy with your beautiful new website. Siteground is highly recommended if you have a WordPress website.
The StartUp plan is usually fine for most small businesses, but some businesses may get more traffic and may need to adjust the plan based on need. There is an option for a free domain registration for the first year with a new hosting plan.
Step 1: Gathering Information
What is the purpose of your site?
What info do you want to provide? Promote a service? Sell a product?
What are the goals for the site?
Target audience?
Content? Pages? Slideshows? Gallery? Contact form?
Please fill out our website questionnaire to help us gather this information to greater understand your needs for your new website.
Step 2: Planning
What tabs do you want? Sub pages? Which sections will you be editing yourself most frequently? We create custom WordPress sites that allow you to edit the content yourself if you wish. We are always available to assist with revisions to your site at any time at our regular hourly rate after the launch of your new site.
Step 3: Design
What are some websites you currently like and why? Style?
What is the over all look you are going for?
Colors?
Specific photos you want?
All of this comes into play, while we design your Mockup. Once your Mockup is completed, we will send you a proof of what it will look like once coded. Now is your chance to let us know what/if you do not like something. 6 hours are allotted for your Mockup, all additional time spent on design changes will be billed at our regular hourly rate. If there is something you do not like, please let us know before you approve your mockup. Once the Mockup is approved, it goes into the coding phase. It is much more difficult to change the design, once your site has been coded.
Step 4: Development
Your website is now in the coding phase. Your mockup is now becoming a working site.
During this time, it would be helpful for you to send us your hosting account information. Having this information in advance will allow us to have a quick upload when the time comes.
If you do not already have domain name registration and/or hosting, please read our page explaining these accounts and our recommended companies to purchase from.
If you do not feel comfortable setting it up yourself, we would be happy to do it for you.
Step 5: Testing
During this stage, we will send you a working proof.
This working proof will allow you to see what your working website will look like. How things will move. All the content, etc.
Once your working proof has been approved. We will send you your final invoice. Once this invoice is paid, we will upload your site.
Step 6: Maintenance
Depending on your business, you may need a little or a lot of maintenance.
All maintenance is billed at our regular hourly rate.
Lara J Designs bills for monthly web maintenance at the end of every month at our regular hourly rate. 1 hour minimum per invoice. If you don’t have any changes that month, then you will not receive a bill. We can maintain pre-existing websites in HTML or WordPress, but do require a look at the backend of your site prior to quoting. If you need extensive design changes to your website, please request a quote!
