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Option#1 Free Website Development Using third party hosted website.

There are lot of providers who offer Free Online Website Development Builder where you can simply register and build your website with drag and drop tools. There are few providers like WordPress, Wix, Weebly etc offers free website hosted on their server with sub domain. Eg. YourName.thirdpartyname.com and if you want you can purchase their premium plan in order to have your own custom domain Eg YourName.com by paying them fee. Usually this are subscription based means you have to pay them monthly or yearly in order to keep your website alive.

Pros

You can start with free website development without spending anything

You can also have custom domain names.

You can pay monthly or yearly nominal fees.

Cons

Free Online Website Builders are good for informative websites but certain limitations if you need core functionality.

It may sounds good deal because you have to pay nominal amount but you have to keep paying forever

Once your site is made it is almost impossible to move your website elsewhere.

Option#2 Build your FREE website using open source scripts.

There are so many ready-made CMS available in the market like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc. You can see list of OpenSource script on WikiPedia. which you can simply deploy on your own server and start developing website free from admin panel. In order to do free website development you need follow following steps

Get domain name as per your choice. (Usually Name, Type, Service, Product name)

Get a hosting (If you can buy VPS hosting then good or else you can go with shared hosting as well. And make sure it has CPanel as well)

Decide which opensource script you would like to deploy for your website (Eg. WordPress OR Joomla OR Drupal OR Magento)

Start creating pages, articles, products. Usually all the opensource script have its community where you can find all the Website Development tutorials and references with user guide.

You can also use some ready made free or premium themes and upload it on your website. Where few themes comes with demo contents which you can import and simply replace with your own contents.

Pros

You will have full control over your website source code and contents.

You can move to any other hosting whenever you want.

You can also add functionality by adding ready-made free or premium plugins

You can use ready-made (free or premium) themes matching to your functionality and branding.

Cons

Although tutorials and references are available sometimes it becomes difficult to do certain things and smallest task can consume your lot of time.

You have to take help of some website expert like WebRence in order to implement few functionality for which plugins are enough or you wants to customize something in ready-made theme.

Conclusion

If you are individual or small business owner having limited or no budget for your website then you can definitely try these options for free website development; however, you always need to keep in mind Website if powerful tool for your business and it is face of your business in Digital World so you need to make sure you have best one so that is the only reason although there are lot of free options are available people still prefer to work with Website development companies like WebRence.

1. Your Idea

In order to identify mobile app development cost be it iPhone or Android first you need to identify what is your idea or solution? Because that will decide rest everything.

Example#1 If you are looking for a Enterprise Mobility Solution for your organization in order to increase the production or reduce the time for certain processes or automate few processes in particular function of your organization. Example#2 If you have come up with an idea for any tool or utility or entertainment mobile application which can serve the world. This idea itself depends on all the features and functionality or even third party integrations too.

2. Technology Platform

Now there have always been debate about Android or iOS. Both (Android & IOS) are pretty popular and robust platforms for Mobility Solutions. It purely depends on your need but yes that is the main reason which impact on overall budget of your app. Because if you are making are building an app each additional platform demands additional work which straight forward impact on App Development Cost

3. User Interface / App Screen Design

When we talk about Mobile App Screen Design first thing strike to our mind is creativity or stereotype? So just to ease out everything we can define Mobile App UI Quality in three different standards and each different standard can impact your Mobile App Development Cost.

Basic: Well app can be created using not design at all. Mean Mobile App Developer can simply use the default controls on screen and nothing fancy. These controls are have its default standards like look, color or behavior etc. If you are looking for build just proof of concept or app only for internal testing and review purpose this option always works best. And usually price is very low to design basic UI.

Good: Definitely “Good” differ person to person but here I am talking about filling some nice color to your App UI; Adding some nice labels or image for various buttons, headers, Menu etc. This kind of app design can impact on App development cost a little bit and can be integrated easily with application.

Beautiful:  Here we are talking about awesome Mobile App UI which are highly interactive. Controls are custom made and not just default boring UI Controls. There is no limit of creativity hence this will definitely add up good amount in your overall Mobile App Development Cost.

4. Hybrid OR Native

This is too technical for any non IT person however it is important to know that this is really can be high impact factor for Mobile Application Cost. Now you might be thinking what is it. But I have wrote another article where I have explained what is the difference in  Hybrid OR Native Application. Well if I put this in simple language these are different architecture of the application programming. Hybrid means combination of two different technology and Native means default Mobile App Frameworks like XCode for IPhone/iPad applications development and Android Studio for android application development

5. Features & Functionalities

It is pretty obvious that the more functionalities/features your Mobile app have, the more work will be involved which is directly related to overall cost. So you always need to keep in mind what are must needed features of the app and which are secondary so that will help you to reduce budget by eliminating those secondary features What kind of Features it has?

6. Localization

Majority of us must have wondered how this app show me different information to me and my friend. Localization can be considered as app features which makes your app possible to be usable for everyone. It doesn’t matter which language your app user speak. It doesn’t matter where your app users live. We can divide Mobile App Localization mainly in two parts.

Location – There are few apps which are used only within United States . There are few apps which are used in multiple countries.  Assume you wanted to show different contents based on users location. For example If someone uses app from United States. So the user from US will get information related to US only. And if someone uses app from Ireland they should get information related to Ireland.

Language – Now assume you are targeting a geographic location which has app users belongs to different race, ethnicity and they speak different language so it is evident you have to provide the user experience in their own languages in order capture maximum users or higher higher user experience.

So based on your application need you can go for localization. These factors also impact on your overall cost now. Cost impact may vary based on:

How many language your app support?

How much information may vary based?

Which locations you are targeting? (Number of locations)

7. Backend OR MBaaS

Really really game changing factor for any Mobile App Cost is Backend or MBaaS. Trust me this can spike your app development cost like anything due to complexity work involved and technology used. This is again too technical for general public to understand. Let me elaborate in simple terms. Think where your information been sent when you enter any data through your app? Also, think how your app shows all the information you entered from website? It works something like this:

You enter some information on your app.

App send all your data on the internet.

Internet sends all your data on your Web Hosting Server.

Web Server have your back-end and Data base on it.

Next time when you need to access your data it reads from the same database back to App.

8. Developer Cost

This is really big challenge for person who wanted to build application. Because your cost will differ greatly based on your App Development Company. There are high chances you get different quotations from different company which different greatly. Yes I am correct price can be up to 1000% higher or lower. Click this button and get free whitepaper to learn how to choose right Mobile App Development Company?

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We had  a customer from Atlanta who had dropped us inquiry and told about his confusion about pricing because he had requested Quotes from 3 different App Development Company and each quotes were having a lot of gap. Scenario was as follow.

Company#1: $35,000

Company#2: $50,000

Company#3: $85,000

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We all know about Web Development Outsourcing. It is time for globalization and every country is demanding for talents more and more. Sometimes you dont have required resources or time or money in order to execute your project and there you have to find alternatives. Web Development Outsourcing is a way to achieve the same. We will be discussing all the Pros, Cons, Solutions & Tools that can help you while outsourcing.

Pros of Web Development Outsourcing

Cost Effectiveness – Check here Hire Developer (Monthly & Hourly) and you will realize what I am talking about.  Cost effectiveness is definitely great benefit but beware not to consider only cost. You may end up paying more (Usually happens) just because it feels so cheap at early stages. So consider this benefit but try not to be so greedy or else you end up losing your money completely or losing some extra money.

Start your project much faster. – Since you dont have to hire anyone at your office so you dont need to worry about sitting arrangement in office, their hiring expenses, other benefits and expenses, risk to hire wrong candidate etc. You are completely free

You can Save not just development cost but also management of resources, save hardware, software. insurance or any other benefits. Also you can get in to agreement which protects both of you Eg. you can divide project in phases and make small parts of payments. This way you and outsource partner both are safe.

Easy to switch outsourcing partner as and when needed. – In case you dont like the outsourcing company you can terminate the contract as agreed and start searching for another outsourcing partner.

Cons of Web Development Outsourcing

Communication – All the outsourcing partners are not having as strong communication as WEBRENCE so in order to overcome you need to check whether your outsourcing partner have ability to communicate clearly

TimeZone – Since there can be timezone difference from 3 hours to 12 hours from one region to another sometimes overlapping time can be challenge however there is always a way. Either party can switch their time so they can easily communication and work together.

Con / Fake people – Yes there are people and companies who show you different resources but actually some other resources is working. Or may be some fraud people also just snatch the money and just vanish. However in order to overcome this you can visit outsourcing partner if possible. Or else do some research about company and its traces Eg. Client reference, Website age (Ref- https://who.is/whois/webrence.com ) , Company Records you can easily ask for their company registration proof.

Privacy/Confidentiality – I always here from client that they are concerned about ideas, source code or trade secret etc. For the same you can ask outsourcing partner to execute legal agreement which protects buyer and seller both. For source code you can always ask them to provide you code time to time so you dont end up losing everything just because you have small dispute at last.

So if I look at this whole list I can tell you with all these above possibilities, I am pretty sure outsourcing is always beneficial. It is cost effective, less management required and usually protects you and your projects.

However, it is advisable to check properly because every country have people that are not good. We have also burnt our fingers from some fake clients who just keep asking for free or without advance payment. So every business have some risk so we have to take.

Here we have some important tools which can help you to manage your outsourcing project.

Legal – NDA, Proposal, Purchase Order

Check website registration date –  from http://who.is

Online Reputation – Check for their reviews on Social Profiles (FB, Twitter, Instagram), Online reviews

Communication – Skype, GoToMeeting,  TeamViewer, Hangout

Efforts Tracking – Eg Toptal

We all have heard WordPress is one of the most dominating Contents Management System in the world since it has mind boggling 33% (Roughly) of Market share in WEBSITE builder/CMS. I think large community support and open source are one those key ingredients which has made WordPress so Popular. Earlier wordpress was launched mainly for blogging and still “Blog” is the most important and powerful feature of WordPress however large number of websites are being published as either Corporate Website or E-commerce websites. There are more than 55,000 plugins, 11,000 different themes and widgets and many more options available on WordPress just to optimize your website without knowing a coding and designing.