How Much Does a Professional Blog Design Cost?
June 8th, 2006So 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!
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Don’t forget about SEOing that blog as well. We even have some clients that want maintenance and promotion which certainly can be done. I’d say $1,500 is a good price if you can get it.
Chris
I am looking to see how much it costs to set up a blog for a Canadian Company. As well as what the monthly costs would be. Also, if you want people to be registered in order to submit a comment, rules, advertising space etc.
I specialize in wordpress blog design at an affordable price (usually $500). You can see my blog/portfolio at http://www.5apart.com/blog
Just want to let everyone know about a great Website Design company.
I was a sceptical because of the price, but boy did they deliver for about
$200 they did the most amazing work for me. I just wanted to pass that along to
you guys.
you can check them out at: http://www.leadsware.com/renovastar/index.html
I’m happy to know little about html and php so when I have a template that I like, I can change things like colors etc so that it suits my needs.
I am not satisfied with my blog design. So I’m looking for another template to use and adjust.