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I am _baffled_ at the cost of websites these days. The company I'm currently at asked for a redesign of their site, and the team was told that their $7k estimate for costs was "too optimistic".

Yes, I have definitely remained out of touch since the very first version of CSS. Yes, I hail from the days when you could do it all in a text editor and Javascript was optional. Yes, I've never paid attention to SEO and all that marketing stuff. But $46k?! And he initially even estimated $15k?!

I'm either missing something major (very possible!), or the industry is scam.



Especially when there so many frameworks (Tailwind etc) and design resources out there that aim to make development easier and more streamlined!




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