Understanding the three basic requirements for starting a website.

• Domain name – This is the address where your website will be found on the Web. The best domain name is one that uses the company’s name in the URL. But sometimes that can be hard to get, if you haven’t already registered it. If you can’t get your company name, then consider something catchy or memorable that your customers can associate with you. It needs to be relevant to your company (containing your company’s name), easily remembered, and easy to spell. Once you’ve committed to a name, you’ll want to stick with it. Remember that it should be something that you like and can live with for a long time, as there’s a possibility that people will start remembering your domain name before they remember your real company name.
  Cost:  $20/year or less
• Web Hosting/Internet Service Provider – Your ISP simply provides access to the internet. If you want a website of your own, you will need to effectively “rent” the space for it on a hosting company’s server. Deciding where you’re going to put your website is important. You want flexibility, excellent support, great reputation, reasonable cost.    Once you have both a domain and hosting account, you will need to point the domain to your host’s nameservers, to connect the domain name to the server. When you signed up, your hosting provider should have sent you the names of the nameservers. They look something like nameserver.com and ns2.nameserver.com. 
  Cost: 150/ year or less for basic service
• Someone to Build the Website and Maintain it.
  First determine what you need. A graphic designer focuses on creating images – so they can help if you need a logo and a particular web template that is unique to you; but they may need to work with a web designer for the finished product. A web developer/coder can build any type of website you can think of, but they may need to work with a designer to make it look the way you want it. A web designer is someone who can translate your vision into an actual, tangible website – the layout, content editing, images, graphics – using WordPress templates or code-free, drag and drop website builders like Weebly – then teach you how to keep it updated.
  Cost: $250 (basic WordPress, with you providing content) to $5,000 (relying totally on experts).

Knight@Work clients:

On average, the following figures can be applied to estimating the cost of a website.  When we say “small business website” we are talking about an informational website consisting of approximately 5 pages with some basic content management and social media widgets.

Domain Name – $20/year
Hosting –  $150 /year
Web Planning, Design and Development of basic Word Press site:  $400 *
* Discount offered for a reduced number of pages and full content provided electronically
  Estimate includes instructions and documentation explaining how to maintain and edit site content and 12 months of support.

Addons are an extra $25/hour: Additional pages, Content writing, Blog set up, Photo Gallery, Customized Forms, etc.  
Website Maintenance after the first year – $25/hour or $150/year  
Marketing/Promotional Support – $25/hour  

A simple agreement of work and costs will be provided before work is begun.

Clients must pay upfront for Domain name and Hosting, and 1/2 the agreed upon website fee. The balance is due when site is near completion.