Web Site Design Contracts

Simmy

Simmy

Simmy

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Hi all,

I started my own PC repair and building company about 5 months ago, and I also advertise a web design service on the side. I've only designed my own website and my dads, but in the last week I've had two companies ask me to build a site for them.

This has made me realise how unprepared I am! I've got a very brief website design contract written up, made of bits and bobs from other contracts I've read on the internet.

So I thought I would ask any web desigers on here what contracts you have for web design jobs. And if possible, could you post it up/email me a copy so I could have a looky see? :) :o

Any other info you could give me about how you go about designing a site, would be greatly appreciated aswell :) ie how you charge.
 
For one of the companies, it's just going to be a simple 5-10 page site, with email form and that sort of stuff. I'm not really sure how much to quote them, because when I made my site, most of the time was taken up writing up and formatting all of the content. If they're going to provide me with all the content and logos/images I don't imagine it would take that long.

I was going to estimate ~5 hours at £30 and hour (my usual rate) which they seemed to think was ok. Does that sounds reasonable? I'm not a god at web design by any means :( It was just a service I offered to hopefully provide some extra income.

But they also mentioned that in the future, they want to add an online shop, but that will come under a completely new contract.

I'm happy to make a few alterations on top of the agreed contract for free, because I'm only just starting out. Any additional pages I will charge for, but minor amendments to existing pages I'm willing to let go.
 
Well I actually left my options open by saying 5-10 hours :p

I guess 5 hours would be pushing it even though they're providing images and content. I was hoping they would agree to one of the free templates I found on the net aswell :p

Thanks for the replies so far :) I'm armed with more questions to ask and points to make.

I just need to make some amendments to my contract. If I posted it up on here, could someone have a look at it for me? :)
 
If they want to use a free template then I'll happily do that :p But yes, I was kidding.

I've created a gallery of free website templates to give them an idea of different layouts and colour schemes I can create for them. This is much easier than me constructing lots of different design templates, especially considering my portfolio only consists of two websites atm :p But I don't intend to use the free templates :)
 
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