Cost of Designing & Hosting a Web Portal

Web Cost Inquiry

Would anyone know the approximate cost (designing and hosting) for building a web portal similar to this:  http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/ ?

Would you know how long it would take to complete?

If there are any solid web-designers, in-house, and in Nigeria, please id yourself via my email. This is a potential business opportunity.  Let talk.

Thanks, Seun, for the kind gesture.

There are many great open source portal's as well (I use phpnuke for my site) The real cost comes in at hosting, depending in traffic it can skyrocket to several hundered dollars a month (even thousands)

Php nuke ?  common man, there are better content managers out there.

what about a site ike this

http://www.hellobc.com/en-CA/default.htm

It seems we are going off on a tangent!

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Cost of building and hosting a very good site for Nigerian use, and

The web-designer preferably should be in Nigeria.

This site: http://www.hellobc.com/en-CA/default.htm, is good. The site I want to build can incorporate the touch and all the jazz, if you can help or have an idea drop me a mail please.

Hidden what made you feel so

cost of bandwidth, reliability, connections to the outside, most sat net customers peer into europe or the US anyway.


ps, I found out apache was doing something really dodgy on my website (randomly spawning it's self -- so it had launched 500 odd times, needless to say it's all fixed up and speed isn't a problem anymore )

It is designed and hosted by Gendel. A South African Company. http://www.gendel.com/webfiles/html/home/home.asp

Since have known Xoops, its been an open source choice of mine. Its used on www.portalnigeria.com and more i used it on one of my site. www.ogbaonnet.com . Get someone to costumize it. Or if u think its not to your taste, I can help u start from scratch. Highly secured portal though.

Xoops official site was hacked last time if I am not mistaken. And its full of bugs. The best content Open Source Manager so far is either wordpress which is used for blogging and can be configured to manage a website.  or drupal a Php based content manager. They are both well featured, supported well, secured, widespread used and can be tweaked to achieve any content rendering. Be it news or just plain content.

Hey, i think you don't just need a portal.if you need a poral let it be a portal.For me i can just fix it at $375 us dollars.with ofcourse all that you'll need in a protal.What's more?over 20Gigs disk space and 300Gigs bandwith.See www.uploadyourpic.com

Nna men.. i for wan talk but fear dey catch me.. all of una na big tam gurus for GNU , opensauce and php.. Nna men. .

I go design de portal with ASP,MS SQL and with de helep of some server-side components finish am make e look like askmen.com or anytinwey dey like yankee product

Nope.. Cost of Designing and hosting a Good Web Portal?!

Varies... anywhere between N15,000 to N5,000,000 depends on what you intend to do with it

Unless you want to match functionality for functionality and feature for feature with http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/  I'd gve you a N150,000 bill to do it on Win2k3 platform ASP or .NET

But if you have a more richer vision, then you will need to review your requirements specifically and
do a brief that addresses

1: what is the purpose
2: how is content going to be sourced, managed and updated
3: what host to use, shared or dedicated etc
4: what technologies, Opensource or Commercial
5: suport and maintenance.. costs and availability
6: revenue building strategy...
just a short list.if you are looking in this direction, you will have

Also what exactly are your goals. even the lagos state "portal"  (that term is soo used and abused) has goals.. is to deliver customized content, search engine, education, health, would you be offering personalized services, would there be paid advertising, free SMS. community forum etc

A portal is different from a simple website (with pages and links to about us, our products etc) it must have a well thought-out business strategy If you have not done that already, Consultancy will cost you to do good research into the Industry you are targetting, likely customer-base and revenues etc

What I have mentioned are simply features and functionalities that portals have in common.
That is a good place to start, a general layout (web design) can be done for really low low cost, like $200 or N30,000.. if anyone tells you you can get the rest of the portal within $500, they must be using open-source but i doubt they will render service on a volunteer basis

Like i said, depends on your level of sophistication.. reliable hosting can go for at least N10,000 pa or N100,000 dedicated Server.

Just look at a minimum of N300,000 for something better than http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/ or N1m for something like AOL http://www.aol.com I am not saying AOl built their site for that amount oh..

I hardly write replies to articles posted in web fora but I've found this extremely irresistible.
As an upcoming web(master?) I've picked up information here in two weeks than I have in the previous six years of my live.  Thanks all for your willingness to share.
That's not to say I've not seen some cockfights, egotrips and electronic bigmanism.  It's been wondrful with u guys.
Tweaking Xoops and Drupal is the next acquired project.  I've always been a an artist with a cosing streak, so all previous projects had always been built ground-up.  It may be wisdom to take your tips as a life-saving, or maybe life-extending elixir.
4give the turenshi, my grandfather is the queen of england .
Keep talking guys.  Keep fighting too.  Remove your shirts, throw monitors.  Whatever you do please, keep talking-my mouth is wide open swallowing!