I can see that this isn't the most active thread, so as an example, I'll give the costs for our latest CMS build so that people can get an idea of what I'm looking for.

Project timespan late Nov - mid Feb
Site description: Popular Music/Entertainment based site
Number of pages in sites: approx 400
Traffic to site: 150Gb a month
Software, WebDeck CMS - £10,000
Integration Services - £10,000
hosting (per annum) - $5000

These costs dont include the design work which was completed by another company, but I suspect they are in the region of around 8-10K

Are these costs similar to what others are paying for CMS builds?

Hi Matthew

As Matt points out the answer, of course, depends on a great number of things. However, if pushed into the 'ball park' game I guess I'd break things down roughly as follows:

1. 'Low End' - probably a basic open source, or pre-built, forms-driven system for updating site content via the web. Not including workflow, personalisation and so on.

Cost: you could probably get this for £5-£15k depending on who you use (contractors vs. small agency vs. big agency vs. consultancy)

2. 'Lower Mid End' - probably a reasonably feature rich CMS based on modular code. Not quite a "product" as such and most likely developed by an agency for re-use with multiple clients.

Cost: in the £15k-£40 range

3. 'Upper mid end' - a decent, fully featured CMS, which could be considered a product in its own right, with corresponding support, releases, documentation, training and so on. Most likely still offered by the mid-larger agencies who have developed something over the years. Or, one of the more modestly priced CMS software packages.

Cost: in the £40k-£100k range depending on licensing and integration/customisation requirements.

4. 'High end' - An enterprise level CMS that is fully featured and almost certainly comes from one of the bigger specialist CMS software firms.

Cost: £100k-£800k (and more...) depending on the scale and scope of the deployment and subsequent maintenance and support contract.

Having played the 'ball park' game I now look forward to the posts from CMS providers who do it all but it miraculously only costs £12.50 ;)

Ashley

>Having played the 'ball park' game I now look forward to
>the posts from CMS providers who do it all but it
>miraculously only costs £12.50 ;)
>
>Ashley

Hi Ashley,

Your cheapest deal would be to sign for a free PHP hosting and get free GUI CMS. Finally customise the interface to reflect your brand.
Total cost - £10.00 hosting a month.

IHBoskov
www.richmediastudio.com