Cost of Building a Website in Nigeria
Cost of Building a Website – Many things have changed in recent times, especially in Nigeria. Gone are the days when you necessarily needed to be in a physical store before buying what you need or be in the library before getting information. These days, we mostly conduct business and gather information from the comfort of our space using any internet-enabled device, especially in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a business owner or prospective blogger, you may be wondering what it would cost you to build your own website where people can visit, know what you do and interact with you. At the end of this article, you would have a good idea of what you should be budgeting for a static or dynamic website in Nigeria.
The most important things about building your website are, first, the goal of the site; this would determine how far you are willing to go. Secondly, the skill and experience of the web developer which plays a role in determining the cost of it; this means that there is no universal figure that is generally accepted by all web developers in Nigeria to be the price or cost of building a website. When it comes to building a website, the following are some basic cost you must factor in your budget:
- Domain name
- Hosting Account
- Development Fee
Domain Name
This is the first thing to consider when developing a website, which is unique to you or your brand and enables visitors to locate you. There are different extensions to a name, it could be .com, .com.ng or .ng, the cost is between NGN4, 000 to NGN28, 000 and it all depends on registrar and extension.
Hosting Account
Depending on the purpose and goal of your site you could decide to use whatever type of hosting that can adequately support your site, note, however, that the number of visitors and level of activities that would be carried out on your site will be determined by the capacity of the hosting plan which also ranges from ₦20,000 – ₦200,000/year ($12 – $120) monthly.
The cost of a hosting plan depends basically on Disk size and other infrastructures.
There are four major types of hosting:
Development Fee
Most developers in Nigeria usually include the fee for content development, design and skill of building the website as part of the fee. Depending on the number of pages of the proposed website it could cost between ₦100,000 – ₦5,000,000+ ($60 – $3,000+), as different web developers factor many things (such as; Content Management system, user interface, etc.) into their development fee
When you have the above things figured out, then you can be sure that you have yourself a website, all you need to do is to set your best foot forward, outsource for an efficient web developer to help you manage the site or use an in-house if you have one, and compete favorably with your competitors. GOODLUCK!
Thinking of building an e-commerce site find out more in this article; cost and management of an e-commerce website in Nigeria
