Web site design/update

Send me the site address. I might be able to do the work. Send me details so I can have a look at the work.

Just so you have some cost comparisons... I charge $95 per hour of design work. (most sites I work on are custom engine driven, so programming is involved.)

Depending on complexity, I have seen it be as little as $95 and the most expensive one I ever did ultimately cost about $20, 000 just for the development work

Some shops charge by the page.

Hope you find this info useful.

at the risk of boos and having paper wads thrown at me, you could get Frontpage. The wizards will walk ya through creating a simple web site.

While Front Page would work sort of it would be plain and simple with terrible graphics as Front Page doesn't handle these at all well.

If you want to do it yourself get a [b]Copy of Macromedia DreamWeaver[/b] and work from there you'll find it fairly easy though you may get stumped and be slowed down by all the choices that you have available.

Col

if you call your hosting isp (or visit your website)they will have products to recommend, i bet. if you don't know who is hosting your site, do a whois on your domain name, that'll give you some clues...if you can get your company to buy you Dreamweaver ($399 msrp) then you will have lots of folks to ask. more than with cheesy frontpage. imho it is the most widely used site management package. you don't have to have a site management package but you will get better results with less errors imho if you do.
i find www.google.com to be an invaluable resource. they have recommended (free) products and step by step instructions for doing exactly what you want. you can really shine by reading and absorbing and implementing the easy recommendations there for how to get your site ranked higher in their search engine also. 10 minutes there and i bet you can get a raise even...look carefully for the link that says 'for web masters'
around here a simple website is less than $300 from scratch...
forgive sgt's inevitable 2 cents worth, but if you are taking this on, you need to check that site everyday to make sure it is up and not vandalized. also learn how to back it up...

As a marketing tool your website is very important, and it's been my experience that you get what you pay for. This is not the time to be pound-wise and penny foolish. If you put care into your website it projects similar care that you will expend on your clients. That doesn't mean it has to be all bells and whistles, just a decent presentation...

That said, how simple is this change? The site you speak of may look simple, but the guts of it may not be. $1500 for a 'simple' site is a steal; my husband charges US$75 an hour (which is close to AmberHaze's $95 Canadian). Where that $1500 and up comes in is when clients keep adding to 'simple' designs that really aren't.

If you truly want something simple, teach yourself HTML (there are plenty of books out there) or spend a few hundred for Dreamweaver. Or, save yourself time, spend some cash and support your local (or not) designer who may be able to look at it with fresh eyes. It will pay off over time.

Hello !
Let me know next:
- What kind database warehouse: Oracle, MSSQL, MYSQL
- What kind of web server name: IIS, APACHE
- What kind of operation system where your hosting is.
All it must be into your provider agreement or something else.
Note, that if you have a lot of information : for example many many tables about trade, location, equipments, addresses and subscribers and providers and you would like to use new technology you will lost a lot of money if new technology will use different database warehouse. If you use SAP sytem or something like Oracle ecommerce and so on you will pay more money for conversion then deveveloping new one.
I suppose you must to say a size of your database and waht regions of world it must service. Don't forget, that your old database and technologies was been deployed on different servers around the world with WSDL services and anothes transaction way between different source of data. May be also a lot of any servers with diffrerent roles involved, like this:
- data server
- transport server
- messaging server
- web server
- vpn server for inner ftp communication
and so on...
do you have full description and a lot of necessary documentation to send it for new developer or new service firm?
so many many questions is if your technology was very power. WEB SITE and DISIGN is NOTHING for web store application indeed, main thing in bussiness processes that your servers to do with information (web interface is only 10-20% percent of any trading technology)
I hope that helps.
Sincerely, LukCAD