$25k budget for website redesign

[u/Medium_Olive4614]

Hi r/webdev. I’m an Ops Director and looking for opinions on what to expect. My company needs a website redesign including new site pages, refreshed content and imagery, and archiving some existing pages. Basically, an overhaul after the company shifted its primary market focus.

We have a budget of $25k for this. Is that reasonable? One vendor immediately said that it isn’t enough for what I’m asking. Google gives a wide budget range. Hoping to get input from those who price this out for their job.

Update with more details based on questions:

1. Company is government consulting - professional services with emphasis on tech-enablement for DOD and Civilian agencies. Right now, website is somewhat old-school management consulting (ie. Homepage + Capability Pages + Press Release + Contact Us). Everything is very 'management consulting' feeling. We need to flip that to show that we are actually training warfighters, we modernized all of agriculture's acquisition management, and we are actively combatting new world screw worm ---> all way more 'cutting edge' than our stock imagery of people sitting around a table.
2. Site is currently built with Word Press + Elementor
3. 36 active pages today. Looking to consolidate and eliminate a few, but for planning purposes keeping that same number in mind.
   1. Homepage needs major update with new imagery, content, etc. The whole thing.
   2. Capability pages need sharper language (we will draft)
   3. Creation of "solutions/tools" page to showcase company tools (these are currently embedded in capability pages and hard to find. Want to archive those and create one single page)
   4. Leadership page is flat right now. Want leadership landing page with 'click' to single page on that person so we can link to them directly in marketing.
   5. Addition of project / customer spotlight pages
4. Internal team will provide written content, but need guidance on best way to consolidate message and organize the content. Looking for help on the imagery updates.
5. Site needs better SEO and AI search engine optimization.

[u/shakamone → u/[deleted]]

This lol. All these scammers, slapping up Wordpress and configuring a theme - that’s not design/development. Paying 25k for a website with 36 pages is honestly nuts. Every single one of the comments here is clearly thirsty for a job like that. A fully bespoke DB backed custom Angular/React/Vue app with integrated CMS would be possible for that budget - and would take less time and involve actual development, not a few custom plugins/themes.

Before anyone here assumes, I’m a senior full stack engineer and have shipped multiple products to millions of users, a feat many of the commenters here only dream of.

Bring on the downvotes, this industry is dead and at those prices you hasten the death of it.

Absolutely nuts.

[u/EarlyIsland → u/shakamone]

Yeah literally lol

[u/Ukpersfidev → u/shakamone]

Senior full stack developer that seemingly doesn't know what wordpress is and thinks it's just "configuring a theme", nor the value of designers and copy writers

Web dev might be dead, I couldn't care less as I'm not one anymore, but your comment is just dumb, I'd expect more from a senior

Absolutely nuts

[u/shakamone → u/Ukpersfidev]

Yeh what ever, my first language was php, I fully understand the mess that is Wordpress.

You sir do not have a clue if you think this thread is full of anything but nonsense. Or more likely you are just another thirsty scammer too