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How Long Will It Take To Build A New Site?

By: Keith R Lunt

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OK, just how long is a piece of string? How long will it take to make a site is a question that I am often asked, and the question is simple. I've been known to have the website ready to publish the same day as I've started, whereas other web sites have taken in excess of a year to get ready. And the one that took over a year was just a 5-page website!

There are some factors that will affect how long it is going to take to build your site. Here are a few of the considerations.

Factor 1 - Size Of The Proposed Web site
Obviously, a 1-page site will usually be a lot quicker than a 5-page site and both ample quicker than an ecommerce website or even a huge directory with many features. There is no reason why a 1-page site cannot be built in a day, whilst a 5-page web site could be built in some days, depending on the rest of the factors.

Factor 2 - Is The Content Ready?
All too frequently the style of the web site can be ready, but the content is not ready or is an early draft. Often, the content is put in place and then redrafted numerous times. Obviously, on those sites where the content is ready at the start or a content management system let's say WordPress is being used, then the time to get it ready is only hours to days. If lots of drafts are needed then weeks or even months can elapse.

Factor 3 - How Complicated Is The Look?
A website with plenty of complicated flash animations, fancy graphics and a different look on every single webpage is going to take heaps longer to build than a easy, clean looking site that might be built in a matter of hours. I can, typically, build a simple clean looking site style from scratch in round 4 hours. It is the iterations after that point that take the time!

Factor 4 - How A lot of People Are Reviewing The Website?
This is an unbelievable factor in the build time of a site. All of my longest builds have had a group of people deciding what the new web site will look like. The quickest have been built for a sole trader.

What happens is that the primary contact looks at the site, has their input with the designer and puts their stamp on it. Then the next person in the committee then gets involved, wants their tips and changes are made. Then the next person and the person after that all do the same. One website alone was restarted 5 times as more people got involved in deciding what the site should look like.

To Answer The Question
A small website can straightforwardly be built in a morning, but as you add in extra pages and features, take time to supply multiple drafts of the content and add in a more complicated look to the web site and get more people involved in what it should look like, the build time increases exponentially.

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Written by Keith Lunt, supplier of website design Merseyside. Pop in for further website design writing!

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