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Show HN: SiteZen – Complete Web Design, Hosting and Domain Name for $50 a Month
- pwpwp 10y agoCan't find an example site to look at.
- british_india 10y agoThat's massively expensive.
- timvdalen 10y agoI'm guessing this includes the initial design, which would make it ridiculously cheap. If you're planning on keeping the average customer for 2 years and pay $10 for the hosting itself, that leaves just $960 for the initial design and setup (not to mention 'ongoing updates').
- zbyte64 10y agoDesigners get paid by getting a cut of the monthly fee. Sounds like the designer is absorbing the risk of an early cancellation.
- zepolen 10y agoTip: Before you start selling web design, make sure your own website is designed well. In particular the white text on grey background in the form here is unreadable: https://sitezen.co/designer.html https://sitezen.co/designer.html
- pavel_lishin 10y agoI don't see any white text, but I do see badly semi-centered checkbox inputs: http://imgur.com/EQBIzts http://imgur.com/EQBIzts
- jordanlev 10y agoLooks interesting. A few questions: - How do you handle the design process in terms of reviews/changes? Do you just present a design and if the customer doesn't like it then they're out of luck? Or will you make a million changes that drag on forever? (I presume somewhere in the middle... but this is not explained). - Do the built sites utilize a CMS of some kind (so customers can edit content after it's been built)? Or do content changes need to go through you (as part of the monthly fee I presume)? - On a more technical note: do you have an in-house platform you build on? Or is it all wordpress (or some other open source CMS)? Or are you re-selling a SaaS CMS like Weebly or Squarespace? - How extensive can changes be after the site is built? Can I add new pages? What if I want to add a whole new blog section if I didn't have one before? What if I want to start selling products? etc.