What is the difference between an Xpress site and a regular site?
A custom site is a site that looks any way that you'd like and can work any way that you'd like. It is a unique site that is designed with your specific industry and goals in mind. After development, you own your custom site, and you can have whatever changes and additions made to the site that you’d like. A high-quality custom site costs between $10,000 and $250,000, depending on your specific design and technology needs.
Our Xpress web sites were created to help people with limited budgets (less than $10,000) who want a high-quality web site, but simply cannot afford to purchase one. Rather than purchase the site, you pay a low set-up fee and a monthly service fee to use the site. You get to use the same state-of-the-art technology that is used to develop our custom sites, and you can change the photography and content on your site as often as you’d like. Ordering an Xpress web site is similar to renting a house that you can’t afford to buy, only you are not locked into a long-term lease.
Web Site Quality & Feature Comparison:
| Feature | Template Site
(Homestead, Yahoo,
Register.com, etc.) | Custom Site
(Freelance designer,
small agency, etc.) | 9dXpress Site | Ninth Degree Custom Site |
| Cutting-edge design | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Unique design | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Customized pages | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| State-of-the-art technology | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| You own the site | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Site can be hosted elsewhere | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Easy to edit site content | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Monthly service fee | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Unlimited number of pages | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Build out time | 1 to 4 Weeks | 1 to 52 Weeks | < 1 Week | 8 to 12 Weeks |
One-time cost | Free to $500 | $1,000 to $250,000 | $299 to $399 | $10,000 to
$250,000 |
| QUALITY LEVEL | Poor | Poor to Average | High | Superior |
While a custom Ninth Degree site is a superior product, an Xpress site is the perfect solution for people who need to stay under $10,000. Though it is possible to find a company to build out a custom web site for less than $10,000, in most cases, our Xpress sites are actually much more robust and impressive looking than the average custom site offered by those developers.
If you would like to review our fees and portfolio for a custom web site, visit www.ninthdegree.com.