First, you have a monetary budget??”how much is the client willing to spend? This translates into a combination
of development time (for designers and programmers), materials (custom graphics, stock photos,
and the like), and ongoing maintenance. You can build a large site with many pages that pulls dynamically
from an internal database and requires very little hands-on upkeep. Alternatively, you can construct a small,
graphics-intensive site that must be updated by hand weekly. It??™s entirely possible that both sites end up
costing the same.
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Second, budget also applies to the amount of time you can afford to spend on any given project. The professional
Web designer is quick to realize that time is an essential commodity. The resources needed when
undertaking a showcase for yourself when you have no deadline are very different from those needed when
you sign a contract on June 30 for a job that must be ready to launch on July 4.
The third real-world budgetary item to consider is bandwidth. The Web, with faster Internet connections and
an improved infrastructure, is slowly shedding its image as the World Wide Wait. However, many users are
still stuck with slow modems, which means that Webmasters must keep a steady eye on a page??™s weight??”
how long it takes to download under the most typical modem rates.
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