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Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese  Assuming you can train yourself to maintain the site after it's built and just add things that you need, what does a site with that much detail (well more like 1/5th, tons of shit on that link) typically cost someone anyway? |
Depends. A site like thottbot or wowhead is more than likely built by enthusiast programmers/gamers as a hobby. Most sites like that are, since there is not a huge opportunity for revenue aside from ads, which haven't been what they used to be.
If someone were to come to me and say "I want a site exactly like Thottbot. I don't know anything about programming or web site design, but I want you to build it so I can maintain it easily from control panels and such." I'd put it probably over 25,000 just for the construction, not counting the EXTREME traffic a site like thottbot gets monthly. Plus the salary of someone to maintain it.
Sites like that almost HAVE to be hobbyist sites.