The cost to build a website varies wildly. It can cost as little as $300 to as much as $50,000 or more. To determine how much a website costs, you must first determine what kind of website you need.
For a website that merely acts as an online brochure, featuring information about you or your company, an article or blog, and the ability to contact the site owner, the $300 price tag would suffice. If you use a turnkey solution, such as a WordPress template offered by a low-cost hosting service, you can build the website yourself and not pay a developer anything.
The challenge with building a website yourself using a WordPress template is the lack of flexibility. If you want your website to feature capabilities beyond the basics, you will need a website developer.
If you require a comprehensive e-commerce website that functions as an online mechanism to help manage your products, customers, and more, your budget will grow to tens of thousands of dollars.
If you require more functionality with your site, hiring an offshore web developer helps keep your costs down. A site developed domestically for $50,000 could easily cost only $10,000 if developed by offshore web developers.