Your Budget Plays A Role In Building Your Web Site
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That super great web site that you are in love with has the coolest features, spectacular Flash animations, and awesome graphics. You want your site to be just like that, right?
Budget Factor
Given the same amount of funds as those fabulous web sites, your web designer can probably do just as good a job. However, realistically, your web designer can only do as much work as your budget allows.
Labor Hours
For a given budget, your web designer usually assigns a certain number of labor hours to each phase of the project. Developing the site architecture gets X amount of hours. Creating the graphical design gets Y amount of hours. Building the web pages gets Z amount of hours, and so on. Through experience, your web designer probably has a good idea of how much time to assign to each task.
As an example, for a higher budget a web designer may be able to give you three different graphical design concepts to choose from. But for a lower budget, the web designer may only be able to produce one design concept. The number of revisions may also be limited. Each revision to a graphical design uses up labor hours. So the more revisions you make, the more of your budget is used up.
The same is true for other phases of the web design process. There are a fixed number of hours that your designer has to work with, given your budget.
Time Is Ticking
Understanding that your budget is the limiting factor, can help you make the most cost effective decisions. You’ll have a sense of when enough time has been spent on a given phase, and when it is time to move onto the next phase. After all, your web designer has only so many labor hours to devote to your entire project based on your budget. So there is no use in wasting those hours on nit picks or other unnecessary work.
Changes Can Add Up
Changes can also be costly, so be sure to request your changes at the right time. Early in the project, before any web pages are built, is the time to get everything ironed out. Just like building a real house, you’ll want to make all your changes in the blueprint design phase, rather than after the construction has begun. If you wait until it’s late in the design process, you will need to pay for costly changes.
Adding To The Budget
Of course, you could always add to your budget at any time. Let’s say your web designer has created two design comps for you, but you really would like to see another concept. Simply ask your designer how much it would cost to develop another concept, and pay the extra amount.
Conclusion
Having expectations in line with your budget can help lead to a more realistic web design process in which the constraints of time and money are better taken into account.
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