There are four costs involved with putting up a website:

1. Getting a web address.  This is technically known as a URL (geekspeak: Universal Resource Locator).  It's the www.yourname.com thing. They cost about $10 a year, and are often included in hosting fees (see #2).  Getting a great one may cost more if someone has it and wants to sell it.  If you're an established business that everyone knows, it might be worth the expense in the long run.  It's also possible to get more than one and make them all point to your website.
   There are a number of endings that are available.  It's most important that you get the .COM ending since that's what everyone expects.  If you fear competitors or critics stealing your thunder, going for the .NET, .ORG, .BIZ and others might be of value since they only cost about $10 a year, but in most cases it's not a big deal.
2. Hosting Fees.  The space on a computer server where your website files are kept is called storage and bandwidth is a measure of how many times your files are sent to website visitors.  Hosting has become very cheap, but it's important that you use a service that is consistently there. 
   McColley Marketing Media has a long-time relationship with one of the best, Dreamhost - they currently host over a half million websites!  We think you'll be pleased with both their pricing and quality.  Most smaller sites can be hosted for a little as $7.95 a month. 
   Hosting prices have fallen in the last year or two - I recently converted a group of sites that had been paying $1200 per month to hosting for less than $35 a month.
3. Initial Design Costs.  As I said at the beginning, you can do it yourself programs for $250, or I've seen competitors proposals go into the $10-20,000 range.  We custom design your site and therefore can't just offer you a blanket, one size fits all price.  We will provide you with a firm price once we agree on the scope of your site.  We think you'll be very happy with our pricing.
4. Ongoing costs.  This is where you'll get burned with most websites.  If your site isn't designed using a Content Management System (CMS), you'll be calling your webmaster for every little update.  If nothing in your business ever changes, then your costs will be low.  But Google and the other search engines reward websites that have fresh, updated content with higher rankings, so it's a foolish way to save money. 
   McColley Marketing Media designs sites using the award winning Joomla CMS, which makes it easy for you to update it yourself.  That means you'll save you money and can add the kind of content that makes it easier to get better search engine rankings.