How Much Does a Professional Blog Design Cost?

So you bought a new cheap domain name for your new blog and now want to seriously promote it and convey your professional blogger profile to readers at first glance. What you need is a professional web designer to redesign your blog with a new professional web design to set you apart from default blog template designs…

How Much Does a Professional Blog Designer Charge? Chris Pearson explains how much a redesign of your blog could cost you - starting at $1500 (surprised!)

At this time, blog designs start at $1500. This price is for a blog that has minimal graphical complexity, no customized icons, and no logo production. What you do get at this price is rock-solid, hand-crafted, browser-tested CSS, XHTML, and simple (but striking) graphic design.

In most cases, bells and whistles like plugin support, unique page designs, and extra graphics push the price up into the $1800-$2000 range. From there, the price is largely dictated by page-specific CSS/XHTML production and custom graphic design. It’s totally conceivable that a pimped out blog could run as much as $3000.

And these charges seem to be justified for a good professional blog design. But then they promise you something unique which will portray your image as a problogger.

They point to another blog design service BlogStudio which have similar pricing

“redesign of an existing blog typically costs between $1500 and $3000 depending on the scope of the project. New blog design is usually a bit more. These figures are vague to the point of being useless, but they can act as an extremely loose starting point.”

Remember these are the industry top web designers and web design reputed projects. You can see their wonderful design porfolios to see the sites they have designed. If that is beyond your budget, you can definitely find cheaper web designers, but have a look at their portfolio and get feedback from current clients. And if you know a little css and html, you might create some great blog designs yourself.

May I point you to some cool blogger templates or wordpress themes to get your blog a new look!