Your website needs are, of course, shaped by your budget, but also on anticipated, calculated cost savings. To help calculate these savings, any website should allow a customer to do some of the processing on behalf of your business - it is the simplest form of outsourcing.

With a basic site, information and contact details are provided for your business. In more complex sites the idea is to provide a service without any, or limited, human interaction.

Cost Savings and Offsets

Ultimately cost savings need to be incorporated into any analysis of how much a website actually costs. What costs can be offset and what costs can be removed by having a 24/7 shop front for your business?