As a guide, a standard well-designed business website that looks professional, is fast to load and has been custom designed for user experience and conversion optimisation may cost between $1000-$10,000. It is always worthwhile discussing your wish list with the web design company because sometimes it can be the small elements that increase the cost. Also when building your site, don’t forget to plan for the future. The great think about digital is that you can add to it as your company needs or budget can afford.
Your user requirements should be minimal in any project where you offer visitors a service or tool. To test a service, users should not be required to do anything. This will make it more likely that they will actually use the service. Visitors who are first time users will be happy to use the service and not have to fill out lengthy web forms. Users can explore your site and learn about your services, but they don't have to share their private information. To test the feature, it is unreasonable to ask users to provide an email address.
Nobody likes slow websites. Visitors will quickly leave or return to your website if they have to wait for pages to load for more than a few minutes. It doesn't matter how beautiful your website is. If it takes longer than a few seconds to load, the site won't rank well in searches (i.e. Google won't rank you high.
