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I am sure this has been covered...

but...

I am writting my first website proposal...

Basic site... Five pages or so... I was thinking a fee of 1000 dollars, but as with anything else it seems too high. It jsut seems wrong to charge so much for something that is easy for me.

Anyway, I live in NE Pennsylvania... I was just wondering what everyone else is charging?

Thanks
 
I have a basic rate of 5 pages for $500 if they provide me with everything including images. It all depends on what they want you to do. I just quoted another site last week at $800 for 5 pages. Check with other web designers in your area for basic rates. You may find it posted on their web-page.

A basic site for me is if I can use a template and modify the HTML and CSS to fit what they want. If I have to write all of the code by hand, then $1000 would be a better price.

Also take into account if you have to meet with them several times for approvals, and if they have reasonable expectations on what they want you to do. Have everything in a contract including timing, and changes if they decide to go with your company. Anything outside of the scope of the contract that is not minor requires an hourly rate above and beyond the quoted price.
 
Tartis...

What site do you use for the templates? I found a few... but you never have enought resources.

Do you present them with the templates so they can see what they may be getting?

Thanks
 
Really should charge the going rate

Really should charge the going rate. Depending on what part of the country and the availability of your service, you might be too high. I would charge by the hour and offer either 30-60 day window where they could make text or graphic changes for free.
My gut feeling is that $1,000 is high unless you are adding a shopping cart or SSl certificate. A standard Frontpage set up with 5 pages, no web hosting, no domain name registration maybe ten hours @ $50 per hour. Maybe $500.



Peter
 
Leztek said:
Tartis...

What site do you use for the templates? I found a few... but you never have enought resources.

Do you present them with the templates so they can see what they may be getting?

Thanks
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I use the ones from Hostgator. There are 4500 templates available for resellers.

I also charge for web-hosting. My web-hosting fees are based on how much hand holding I need with my client. If they want a totally hands off site, I charge them $35 per month for a static site. If they want to do everything themselves, I can give them a much lower rate. I also put limits on disk space and bandwidth. SSL and other items are all extra.
 
For me a basic 5 page site with no flash or other cool effects, no web hosting, no domain name..ect. would be around $400-500 depending on content. I will depend on what others are charging in your location. But I can think of nothing that you could do to a 5 page site that would make it worth $1000.
 
Thanks for the replies guys...

Thats is why I asked... It is my first site I am charging for....

I will probably price it at 450.00 with 30 days of free changes. After the 30 days I will charge my normal hourly rate, which I bill in 15 minute increments.

I will be hosting the website and registering the domain name, which I will bill seperate.

Thanks
 
Joomla!

You can create sites that look like you worked on it for 6 months! My site in a joomla site. It really easy too, if I get all the information and a basic design layout a client wants I can put together a joomla site in a matter of days...probably hours but my attention span is about 15-30mins before my mind starts drifting off to other things and I'm surfing the web or reading posts here lol. I get about $600 per site and with joomla creating a new page is basically a copy and paste operation I usually don't charge more unless they want like a 20 page site with crazy links and sub menus....or if I have to do a lot of typing because they hand wrote the copy.
 
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I think you have to remember on pricing that if you do a site for say $500 how much is that customer going to make due to the site? Say for example they have a landscaping business, a website can generate them thousands of dollars over a years time. But, the site is not going anywhere and unless they need changes done the only other expense they have is hosting.

I typically base the price knowing what a customer can make and base it on that. A 5 page site no matter the business I would not do for under 1K. As long as it's well put together and optimized they will easily make that money back.

The joomla deal for sites has it's place depending on sites I think. Typical sites I will stick with html. But, recently did a gaming site and went the Joomla route due to they will be making the changes not me.
ex. http://gamepadva.s466.sureserver.com/
 
Well...

I quote the site at 450... with changes at my normal hourly rate.

I'll take it for now. I'll look at it as a marketing task. It is for a local borough.

Hope I didn't short change myself? That is what I hate about beiong on my own... What is too much or what is too little...

Thanks all..
 
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Leztek said:
Well...

I quote the site at 450... with changes at my normal hourly rate.

I'll take it for now. I'll look at it as a marketing task. It is for a local borough.

Hope I didn't short change myself? That is what I hate about beiong on my own... What is too much or what is too little...

Thanks all..
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I would not worry about it much. $450 for a borough site is not bad just make sure you put your site at the bottom of it for the designer/maintainer etc....It will work in your favor for people that go to it.
 
Another quick question regarding payment...

Does everyone require a down payment? Do you request payments at different phases?

Thanks
 
payment

I do half and half. Reason being I've done some sites (2 right now) that the people drag it out over like 6 months of me waiting to get material from them. So with half up front I do not mind the wait. I just throw it on the back burner until they are ready.
 
I know you guys like to feel customers out and charge based on their wallet size, lol

For me I charge a simple rate for all clients. I try to estimate the time I will spend working on it, then add in hosting costs or if other items are needed like an ssl, and add in a bunch of time for EU changes and showing them how to check their websites email.

For a 5 page custom site I would charge $400-$600 depending on how picky the client is and what their expectations are. If your client doesn't want to much just a site up to make a presence then your price of $450 should be exact and what I would consider fair market.
 
My basic sites cost $500-$800. The most expensive site I've built cost $1500. That customer was quoted $5000 before they got my quote and was quoted based off a previous site the developer had built using Joomla and a Rockettheme template.
 
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