Starting a website- what's involved, costs?

[brettallica]

Originally Posted by Monkey

This isn't for me but I'm trying to help out. Basically what is needed to get something started.

Price for a domain name yearly?
Price for using vbulletin yearly?
how much to get the site up and running?
how do you go about getting partnerhips (like having blu-ray.com have a link to the site, and said site having a link to blu-ray.com /advertisers.) Not necessarily blu-ray.com but just an example, etc.

I'm sure there is more as well that I'm not thinking of.

Or if you think there are other sources I should be checking let me know.

Domain price: usually about $10 per year.
vBulletin: I believe it varies, but I want to say it's about $100 for a year or $200 for a lifetime license.
How much to get the site up and running? That's debatable. Are you going to do any of it yourself? Will you have any input? I do HTML and CSS programming, so for me that part is free. You will need to have a domain host, which is generally in the neighborhood of $15 per month, if you have vBulletin type features along with it. You could probably find $9.99 per month domain hosting if it's really basic and has only one or two e-mail addresses. I have a source that does it for that. There will be an initialization fee, usually like $20 or $30 or buck or so to get your domain's nameservers switched from the registrar to the domain host.

That is all the hard costs. After that it's up to you. You can always add things like more storage space, features, and so on and so on...

PM or e-mail if you want more info. I do web design as a side job to create a little more cash flow.

Here are a couple recent ones:

http://maxmusclesantacruz.com/ -- Local supplement store. Designed from scratch, including all graphics and code
http://angels.brettroby.com/ -- son's baseball site that I designed from scratch (I'm manager of the team)
http://santacruztelevision.com/ -- Local television shop owned by my cousin. I didn't do the layout of this site, but I took it from a singular home page that had only one page (which was originally made using an HTML table...which I converted to CSS) and made it into what you see here as far as functionality and stuff.