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Folks often ask us, “What are the things that can make website redesign and rebuild projects more expensive?” The quick answer: things that take up a lot of time. The longer answer: over many years and hundreds of projects, we can tell you exactly what the biggest cost drivers usually are. Here are our top 5 hits:

1. Design & Development
2. Stakeholder Wrangling, Internal Capacity, & Timeline
3. Content Migration
4. CMS: Drupal vs WordPress
5. Transactional vs Consultative Partnerships

There are ways to save time and cost in some of these areas; others can’t be cut. Let’s dive in and explore each a bit more.

Last year, we at DevCollaborative became maintainers of the Maxlength Drupal module. Numerous usability tests, 32 commits and 35 contributors later we've reached a stable release for the project.

The latest version of Maxlength fixes a user permission, solves an obscure blinking cursor situation and more. Plus an improved UI based on user feedback.

Hosting services with built-in tools based on modern development best practices save dev teams time and headaches, and save our clients money. Although Pantheon is a gold standard in modern hosting in terms of quality, it’s not a good fit for every organization we serve in terms of its pricing model. So we have spent the last few years actively searching for affordable, high quality alternatives that still meet our requirements and standards. Our most successful experiment to date has been on Amezmo hosting. 

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