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Plugins
The most-powerful features of WordPress can be found with in plugins. These plugins extend WordPress to do just-about anything you can imagine.
Based on your answers, we think these plugins would be a solid place to get started.
Theme
Your WordPress theme controls how your website looks. Different themes approach this in different ways, and each have their pros and cons.
A Site Builder
Site builders provide a powerful set of tools to allow you to build your entire website without using any code.
Based on your feedback, we selected this option in your estimate.
Pros
- You can build your entire site without any coding knowledge.
- It's a cost-effective way for us to build your website
Cons
- There's still a fair learning curve, as there are many features to learn.
- These builders tend to be slow, and as a result make it a slow process to make site updates
- Rarely scales well.
- Sites built using in this manner tend to be much slower than identical sites built without a builder.
Custom Theme
Based on your feedback, we selected this option in your estimate.
A custom-built theme is tailored to your website's specific needs. It allows you to have exactly what you need, ensuring that working with your website is effective, and painless.
Pros
- Making updates to your site is generally simple, and straightforward.
- Your website will perform better than most websites.
- Plugins can be integrated into your website at a much deeper level.
Cons
- They take more time, and money to build.
- If you ever want to make major changes to your site, it will probably require a code change.
Custom DFS Web Application
A custom-built theme is tailored to your website's specific needs. It allows you to have exactly what you need, ensuring that working with your website is effective, and painless.
Based on your feedback, we selected this option in your estimate.
Pros
- Most pages load instantly regardless of the visitor's internet connection.
- Website features smooth transitions, and an overall "app-like" feel.
- All of the same benefits found in a typical custom theme.
Cons
- Like a custom theme, they take more time to build.
- If you ever want to make major changes to your site, it will probably require a code change.
- They're more expensive than other options, both to build and maintain.
Ongoing Maintenance
Launching a new website is the first step. It represents the start of something new, not the end. A website is something tha needs to be maintained, otherwise it will stagnate, and will cease to serve you effectively.
Website Hosting
Your website has to be hosted on a server in-order for other people to access it. The right host takes this complex matter, and makes it manage-able.
We suggest, and use Flywheel for all of our web hosting needs. If you work with us, this cost is built-into your maintenance plan.
$29.00/monthPlugin Licenses
It's important to keep your website's plugins up-to-date. This keeps your site secure, and helps keep your website running smoothly. For most plugins, you pay an annual fee to keep access to the newest version of your plugins and to continue to have customer support for that plugin.
Based on your suggested plugins, you can expect to pay:
DesignFrame's Maintenance Plans
Instead of managing all of these plugin licenses, plugin updates, hosting problems, and other headaches that come with maintaining your site, we suggest that you sign up for a DesignFrame Solutions Maintenance Plan.
With a maintenance plan, DesignFrame Solutions handles all of this for you. Instead of purchasing individual licenses, paying for hosting, and dealing with surprise development costs, you instead pay us a single monthly fee and we take care of the maintenance from there.
Based on your entry details, we suggest you emply our .
Your Website Estimate
Cost
Based on your feedback, we estimate that we can build your website for somewhere between and .
I recognize that these prices are out of your budget. You can always take this quiz again, or contact us directly to see if we can get down to your price point.
I also encourage you to look at the payment plan options below - this may help you get the site you want without paying too much up-front.
Payment Plan Option
If you sign up for any of our maintenance plans that offers a payment plan, we can divide your project into 12 payments.
In other words, you can expect to pay between /month and /month for 12 months. After that, your monthly maintenance fee could drop down as low as /month.
Timeframe
For a website like yours, you can expect a completed website in .
I recognize that this is longer than you want. To alleviate this, we would optionally build a "microsite" for you.
A microsite is a small, very basic website that is used in-place of your final website. This can help hold you over until your full-fledged website is in-place.