Stage 3 vs Custom Design

Your Dentist Stage 3 website packages are designed to cater to the needs of 95% of dental practices. The packages will not be suitable for every practice. The reason Stage 3 websites are 10-20% of the cost of a custom-designed site is that much of the time that a website development company would spend trying to liaise with you and second-guess what you want is alleviated because you do much of that work yourself. The Stage 3 framework takes care of everything else except what you know best - all the details about your practice. For more information, on the process, see How to Purchase.

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Benefit

Your Dentist Stage 3

Custom Designed Site


Set-up Cost

$999

$5,000 to $10,000


Cost to change existing information

FREE - DIY

$$$$

Generally charged at an hourly rate


Cost to change pages or add new pages and more information

FREE - DIY

$$$$

Generally charged at an hourly rate


Annual Hosting
- Year 1


FREE

$$$$

Can be $55 per month or more


Annual Hosting
- Year 2+


$499 per annum

Includes domain name renewal every 2 years, telephone support and all software upgrades.


$$$$

Can be $55 per month or more.
Domain name renewals, telephone support and changes to your site are generally all charged for based on time or the service performed.


Time to get your website online

> 1 week

A Your Dentist Stage 3 base set-up of 10 pages can be online in a few hours after receiving the completed set-up form. A domain name generally takes 24-48 hours to register.

Over time, you can then add more information and images to your site and constantly evolve your online prescence.

approx 1 to 3 months

Because website development companies complete all of the work you do yourself with a Your Dentist Stage 3 website, it takes much longer to get online (and thus the reason for the higher costs). We have heard of incidents where it has taken 1 to 3 years to get a site online but fortunately these cases are isolated. Web developers are often reluctant to publish incomplete websites and view the day of publishing of the web site as the completion of the work. Additional work beyond this initial completion phase is generally then charged for at an hourly rate, or for major upgrades, requoted based on the scope of works.