Your website design company will ascertain both your short and long term objectives and budget before any development takes place; this will enable the website development to be future proofed and eliminates any waste development that will need to be discarded.

A professional website design company will always review your long term goals to ensure that the type of initial development is correctly geared to match the long term requirements of your website.

This will affect normally not only your type of hosting but also the types of technologies used in the original website; careful consideration should be given to the type of database structure storing your website information.

Short term a Microsoft access database may be sufficient and help reduce initial development and hosting costs, but long term as the site traffic and the amount of data storage requirement for the website increase, options and charges should be considered to upgrade the hosting system to manage the increase in traffic and upgrade the database to a advanced system like Microsoft SQL server.

Long term this will affect the hosting and licensing charges and should be considered at the initial development to ensure no website development time or finance is wasted.

Your website designers should advise on budget requirements for your website project aims, this may or may not already have been established by your company, a rough guide will always help in the conceptualisation but may not always be possible to ascertain as you may be relying on the return on investment from the initial development in your website to progress.

A professional website design company will advise on the development based on modules, a module may be any type of application---our application development, and for example you may wish to start your website with the ability to add products and a product search but not the ability to allow customers to purchase online.

Each of these sections will be assigned a module cost so that you can budget for the next stage as the website progresses, your web design company will supply you a simple long term charges programme that your web design company will be able to progress simply and seamlessly without any waste of the previous development, these modules may then be supplied at your convenience.