CMS has Lowered the Expectation Cost for Freelance Web Development

The cost to develop a decent website can range from $300 up to as much as $5000, but users seem to think that this is unreasonable since the large adoption of CMS. CMS has given non-developers the idea that we developers simply need to install the web application on a server and they will magically have a website. Thinking this way leads them to believe it shouldn’t cost that much. What they don’t know is that installing the software is only a small part of the entire development process.