Comments on: How much can a website cost?

By: ScotWeb2 on the net and the public sector | Sour Alba

ScotWeb2 on the net and the public sector | Sour Alba — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:52:31 +0000

[...] ears to wring with his revelation that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website cost £19.2m, with the CMS alone costing £1.47m.Staggered by this he set up a business that builds websites [...]

By: Content Marketing Watch: ScotWeb2, the web and the public sector | Content Marketing in Scotland - w00tonomy

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:24:48 +0000

[...] ears to wring with his revelation that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website cost £19.2m, with the CMS alone costing £1.47m. Staggered by this he set up a business that builds websites [...]

By: Only connect « Mindworks’ Weblog

Only connect « Mindworks’ Weblog — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:13:55 +0000

[...] about. Will start again in a moment, but can’t leave this post without mentioning a topic Simon blogged about recently. The fact that this website cost £9.7m to build. NINE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND [...]

By: Links for 2008-07-01 - tonyscott.org.uk

Links for 2008-07-01 - tonyscott.org.uk — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:24:08 +0000

[...] How much can a website cost? [Puffbox] [...]

By: Alan in Belfast

Alan in Belfast — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:14:12 +0000

If there was significant processing - receiving, validating, routing enquiries etc, lots of dynamic content, and a complicated shopping basket of goodies, I could see how the $$$ would mount up.

The online-tax form must cost a fortune.

And, after all, many FTSE100 companies have websites that cost a lot of million to construct and maintain. But then, BA (are they back in the FTSE?), and the utility companies have a product to flog and complicated back end systems to integrate with.

But, content publishing websites (read-only, or read and add comments/reply) shouldn't be hitting high figures?

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:22:20 +0000

In Miliband's defence, the money was spent (or certainly signed off) well before he arrived. And the first obviously Milibanded project, the Ben Hammersley stuff I mentioned last week, is all open source: MediaWiki, WordPress, etc.

By: Jon Worth

Jon Worth — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:17:21 +0000

£6 million for software and rollout, and £1.47 million for the CMS alone? Even at a high price of £1000 per man/day that's one hell of a lot of time. Behind all of this, and indeed at EU level with MyParl.eu that I've written about it seems to be easier for politicians to be able to clear finance for major web projects than it is to work out a good strategy for the use of the web. I suspect it's easier to get agreement for a £9.7 million budget in the FCO than it is to get agreement on a good web strategy for a large and complicated government department. So spend the money, and think later. Frustrating.

By: Andrew Cooper

Andrew Cooper — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:18:05 +0000

What? Almost unbelievable. Waste on this scale should be a criminal offence. Who were the beneficiaries? Milliband has lost his marbles.