Pricing Overview for Lyon Web Work: Building Sites and Putting In the Data

In the Lyon Web model of building the data container for a site and giving the client Web tools to enter and control that data, we may not ever need to charge that much, and your quote probably will be substantially less than that, depending on what you want from your site.

Database work is the main thing
We see a number of site builders who will quote a rate by the number of pages done. Maybe $100 a page, so that a 10-page site will cost a thousand dollars. It's a good rate, but when the content on those pages gets old and needs changing, most of these deals will require another charge for the page edits, usually at a high developer's rate of $50 or more an hour. You keep paying. There is no database backing.
We build sites with a different approach -- the Web Connect to Your Data idea. Our goal is to make all or nearly all the content on a site editable by the client via the Web-page forms we build, so that they can make content changes themselves and have them instantly go live on database-driven pages.

Who's going to put in the data?
The idea of clients entering their own product data is very important in our site quotes. We can do this data entry, but our goal is to keep you from paying our developer's rate for this. It's well-spent money having Lyon Web develop a data-driven site with Web-based content editing tools. It may not be so well spent having us key in your data when this task could be accomplished by anyone with Internet access, a Web browser, and a knowledge of the products and data that the site needs to display. Think of images as part of the data too. If you have a product catalog of 400 items that you want thumbnail and full-size pictures of on the site, it would be cheapest for you to shoot the pix and upload to the site via EZ Web form.

Lyon Web Hosting
We provide web site hosting on our Trustix Linux server, which lives on the fast 100MB/sec connection of the Montana Internet Connect company in Helena. Our standard hosting packages is $30 per month or $300/year. Highlights of the package are 500 MB of server disk space, domain name services, 5 domain e-mail accounts, daily data backups and the PostgreSQL/PHP database setup.