What is the project budget? Initial? Monthly? Yearly? What is the timeframe? 2 months? 2 Years? Milestones?
Another very difficult part of the startup is determing what you want and when you want it. All too often clients decide they want to be web enabled, and decide that it needs to be done within the next two weeks. You should create a timeframe that includes the stages that you will be implementing functionality on your site.Consider the following items: Initial development, Monthly costs; hosting, dial-up (or HighSpeed access), Yearly costs; secure certificate, domain registration, maintenance charges. Each of these items will of course cost money, and may require time to implement. If you decide to develop the site yourself you may be able to save yourself the initial development costs. Unfortunately the monthly charges can not be avoided. They are required to make sure that your web site is accessible 24/7. Granted that hosting with a free site may not cost you any money if you are okay with someone else’s banners being displayed when your site is accessed.
