I am very close to using a web design company located in India called 61 Design Street to make me a cutom wordpress template for a soccer drills site that I am going to make. At first, they offered to do it for $3,500 but I negotiated it down to $2,700, but I feel like there is a chance that they may be still over-charging. Please let me what you think! It will be a video style theme. Here are the main features of the custom wordpress template: -ability to put my own videos on posts and pages without use of 3rd party like youtube, and user to rate the videos -Featured section flipping through selected videos -Having the option of listing the posts in our various category pages in two formats (a video style type listing for our soccer drills categories and the blog/news style for our editorial section) Any opinions about this would be very helpful greatly appreciated! Thanks
Youknowwhatitis, You're right to suspect being ripped off; USD $2,700 is rather steep for a Wordpress theme. My fledgling company already has a handfull of very happy clients, and we could do this project for USD $2,000. We'd be happy to show you samples of past work.
The current global economy allows you to find well educated professionals for much less than several thousand US dollars. I am more than sure you can get great results for 10% of that price if you do your search homework well. A designer that works for a premium theme website based in Eastern Europe or emerging Asian countries would do a great job for only a few hundred dollars. Have a look around here, contact premium theme website owners, launch a contest @ designcontest.com. Just a few of your much cheaper options. For the price you mentioned you can get a fully developed complex web application, not just a theme
I actually should have never posed this question. Regardless of what else is out there, I discovered that this is actually a great deal. The reason is that this particular company is ranked the #6 best design company in the world. And this ranking is derived from a competition among thousands of other firms which idicates that they are very professional. There is a major difference in value and worth between high quality and average design.
Regardless? With that money you could probably get 5+ awesome themes (not AVERAGE, average stuff sells for $xx). But - then again - it's your money, have fun!
I would pay $450 as much for a theme with features just like that. It would take less than three days to create theme from scratch, but I don't think they would scratch it. They may have themes in stock, and I don't trust company from India since I was being cheated by two of them.
if it gets the job done and it fits into your overall plan then go for it. however if they are really just designing a "template" for you and not providing content help and some backend system for your videos then I would say that is pretty overpriced. all depends on what they are doing! like you said. value and price and completely different
From what you listed in your original post all they are doing is providing a theme and installing it. The list you mentioned as far as 'features' is built into WordPress. Nothing custom here. In fact you could do it all yourself inside of the admin. Why not find a theme at themeforest.com? They run $50 or less depending on your needs. All themes are extensively tested and reviewed before they are available for sale so you are getting a quality theme. We've done custom built CMS apps with database structure, W3C and 508 Compliant code, SEO techniques, logo and effective GUI/UX techniques for $2500. I'll tell you right now you won't get all of that with your Indian company. Regarding your comment about 6th best company in the world. Based on what, a poll on some random site? The URL you provided has a PR: 0 ranking which tells me it's not exactly reliable. I can name 10 off the top of my head in the US that blow doors off of my company. And I have 16 years experience and an MBA to help with business aspects. Yes there is a difference, but high quality should NOT be limited to how cool the design of your site is. Does the code validate? Does it work on multiple browsers and platforms without errors? Is the GUI/UX design effective so that your users are comfortable perusing site without having to think or become frustrated? Have proper SEO techniques been used? Are you meeting ALL of your clients needs for them to be successful? Have you taken the time to research your market and apply effective marketing techniques? THAT is what defines high quality and value. There are more aspects to developing an effective web site than the design.
He he heh he, "The reason is that this particular company is ranked the #6 best design company in the world." P.S. Well played.
Well not sure what you mean high quality, i found that they designed this website http://discovere.ca/, it was there in their recent testimonial. If anyone out here thinks, that this design is even worth more than a $100, then i would be wow'ed. You may really want to see what does high quality mean. I will give you a few links for you to understand what does high quality mean. http://www.webcreme.com/ http://www.thecssawards.com/ http://www.divinecss.com/ Have a look at those websites and decide on what is high quality, really don't burn your hands on this and shell out that much, you can build 5 such websites for that price. Also, those awards that they claim on their websites are mere gallery sites, all you need is $30 to get listed in a whole bunch of them. Not every company India treats their customers this way, but unfortunately many do. So beware of these people and please don't give them a price when they ask for budget. Always try and get a quote and then negotiate accordingly. Well, i ain't a great designer, but i have quite a decent portfolio, certainly better than those designs over there. So always consider choices and act wise. Cheers.
Seems very very expensive for a wordpress theme even though you do have a couple of extra features that you want to be able to do thats seems way over priced to be honest.
Okay, what's with the first post and then the second post? Did you suddenly readlise that you have been quoted by an award winning company hence high prices or are you posting about your own rates? Honestly there are easier ways to find your position in the Market. And it isn't $2700.
Why won't you ask for a quote from the similar design studio and see if they would price-match or beat them?
Do you trust the source of that information? Also, ranking the best design company in the world is a pretty subjective thing to do so it may have no relevance to you at all. Try to get a quote from the #5 or the #7 and see how the offers compare. Oh, and ignore everyone here trying to sell you stuff.
The price depends a lot on the quality they bring. If it's this expensive, perhaps you will get a great website and win on the marketing side.