Your Best Initial Gear (B.I.G.) Single Starter refers to a great affordable one page website that provides all your fundamental online needs. We trim all the unnecessary features to keep the cost as little as possible without sacrificing functional quality.

To find out how much initial money you need to set aside to launch your own website, let’s do some number-punching on the calculator.

Great Website Criteria:

• Fast Uploading Time
  People don’t like to wait too long, specially when they are using Internet Cable and still have to wait for more than 2 min. on a web page to finish loading. It’s a big no.

• Visually Pleasing Layout
  Getting someone to create a basic 4 pages website for 200 bucks may not be a good idea. Unless you really know that s/he is a credible website designer doing you a favor; perhaps a friend or a friend of a friend. Doing quality work takes time and if a waiter in my favorite restaurant can make triple of what the website designer makes in an hour; that’s really something questionable.

• Browsers Compatibility
  Having to see your website all perfectly looking on a browser doesn’t mean that it will look perfect on other different browsers. Always check that you don’t have any cross-platforms issue.

• Basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tags
  Meta tag description and meta tag keyword are a must-have for your web page. It labels your page so search engines can recognize it properly.

B.I.G. Single Starter Website Scope Of Work:

• profile (basic bio)
• resume to download
• portfolio
• contact info
• viral connection links

Cost Breakdown:

• Domain – name is an identification label addressing to your website, also known as URL or www address. Average cost of a domain is about $8 to $10 per year.

• Hosting – is a service that allows people or companies to serve content on the Internet. Average cost of a hosting plan is about $4 to $5 per month ($48 to $60 per year)

• Website Design – An entry level freelance website designer’s hourly rate is usually $50. Typical work stages involved in the creation of a website is brainstorming, layout design, layout design revision, coding, and browsers/bug/compatibility check. Let’s assume that the website designer is spending 1 hour for each of these 6 stages. The total approximate cost is 6 x $50 = $300.

• Conclusion – Total = $10 + $60 + $300 = $370 initial cost and $70 for additional year to keep the domain and hosting.

For some of you, looking at the figure from the cost simulation above, may have boosted your confidence in getting a website and probably want to throw in some other features into the Scope Of Work.

However, for those of you who think that there must be a more affordable way to get your B.I.G. Single Starter website; you are absolutely correct. There is!

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Please let me know if you are interested in learning more about B.I.G. Single Starter website by sending a request email via the [ contact form ] and type “B.I.G. Single Starter” on the title.

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Note that the price value of additional page usually decrease as the result of duplication layout page from the master page (layout consistency and look and feel across the website pages). This cost simulation page is rounded to the closest dollar and price may have changed depending on domain and hosting companies and website designer and geographic location of where each party operates.

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