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Designs For Non-Technical People

Our web design services are aimed at customers who have little or no technical knowledge and need a designer who can speak English and not just computerese. We take the confusion out of making your website. We are very good at creating the "look" for your website that you want the most. And our rates make our personal service highly affordable.

Virginia Host offers two design rates.

For customers who host their websites with us, we cut 60% off our normal rate and charge only $25/hour. On average, a basic page consisting of text and a few photos (supplied by you) takes an hour to create. Thus, you can assume a cost of $25/page. And with our low-cost hosting rate of just $120 a year ($10 a month, paid annually), this is our most popular package.

For customers who host their websites elsewhere, we charge our full $60/hour rate. You may have seen web hosting services that charge less than our $10/month hosting rate. So have we. In fact, we offer one of our own for Do It Yourself types who know their way around a website.

But if you don't know anything about web page coding or how to work with web hosting services that give you little more than a control panel and a customer service number and let you figure out the rest for yourself, you'll find that such bargains aren't much of a bargain. The amount of time and money you spend on them simply because you aren't an expert will cost you far more than any savings you would have realized.

Our $25/hour web design program for customers who host with us is tailor-made for average people who don't know anything about setting up and running websites. This covers approximately 99% of the human population on Earth. That's why our program is so popular.

You may be wondering about the $25 per page rate we discussed on the home page. How does $25/hour translate into $25 a page? It's simple. On average, a basic web page consisting mainly of text, a photo or two, and a nice layout takes an average of one hour to code. It varies of course, and the home page is usually the most time-consuming (because it defines the "look" for the rest of the website), but on average it works out to about an hour per page.

How We Incorporate Your Tastes Into Your Website

It's simple. We send you surfing. Just find some websites you like that have some of the elements you want in your site. They do not have to be about the same subject as your website. They can be about anything. Design usually transcends subject matter. 

Send us the URLs (website addresses) with your order along with a brief description of what specifically you like about each of them and what you don't like about them. (The contrast of like and don't like is extremely important.) Send us 3-4 URLs to look at with your descriptions about what you like and don't like about them, and we'll get a pretty good idea what you want your site to look like.

You can also have us use a template that you found available for sale or use on the web. See our templates page to learn more about the advantages and pitfalls of this approach.

How Long Will It Take To Finish Your New Website?

It's always hard to answer this question without knowing the details of your project, but we can answer in general. In most cases, once we have all the materials from you for your website, we'll build your home page within two business days. We need from you:

  1. The text for each page you want to include in your website
  2. All photos you want us to use
  3. Any logo you might have that you want us to use
  4. The results of your web surfing (described above) that will help us understand what you want your website to look like.

After we build the home page, we'll present it to you for your approval. Once you approve it, we'll use it as the overall "look" for building the rest of your website. Unless your site has a whole lot of pages (or needs more than just the basics, such as a custom-built shopping cart, flash graphics, and other time-consuming activities), in most cases we'll be able to finish the entire site in about a week.