Website cost

iceman911 · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:01

Hi guys, ive been asked by someone to design them a website all about themselves. They wish to premote their books and give themselves a general biograph on the website to. [ He is a Acadmic lecuter ]

Anyway for a pretty simple site, just with a few custom buttons, and the normal stuff and a pretty much standard layout, what would the general charge be? Ive seen basic custom webdesigns varyying from£99-2000. Any ideas of what the going rate is for a standard webby?

Any replies wil be very apprechiated.

Dan

RandomTom · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:06

I wouldn't know on an exact price but If he's looking at that including his hosting, domain, a nicely done website complying to standards then probably around £200-250.

If it's not a static website then you may be able to charge more.

iceman911 · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:08

ok thanks a lot

nav... · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:39

charge £200 a day.

D4VE · 26 Jul 2006 at 08:52

I charge £500 fixed fee.

z3b3dy · 26 Jul 2006 at 09:23

Just charge whatever makes you feel you've made money on the project in return for delivering a site your client is happy with.

Have you done it before and therefore could you justify £500 for a two or three page site? If you're very good then maybe yes but what happens if the client comes back and says that's way too much.

There is no general charge for designing and developing a website this has been mentioned many times on this site, you'll get a load of different answers but in the end it's you doing the work. We all have different ways of pricing things and judging timescales plus other mitigating factors which can raise or lower costs (your location, your availability, the deadline, how good you are...).

Here in Kiev it's $600 / day for me but obviously it's up to you to justify whether you can or can't charge that also.

iCraig · 26 Jul 2006 at 10:14

ONE BILLION DOLLARS

zetec452 · 26 Jul 2006 at 10:38

iCraig said:
ONE BILLION DOLLARS

Is that per hour or for half a day?

z3b3dy · 26 Jul 2006 at 10:39

JonRohan said:
Is that per hour or for half a day?

Per page surely

iceman911 · 26 Jul 2006 at 10:45

great help, thanks all of you. This would be my 3rd site really. Personal website ive done for myself is http://www.itreview.org.uk [not finnished] and http://www.banburymotor.co.uk [ not far from completion, up and running tho]

Dan

nav... · 26 Jul 2006 at 10:57

D4VE said:
I charge £500 fixed fee.

Word of warning only charge a fixed fee, if you have the precise scope of what you will do set out to begin with. Else you'll end up making endless changes for the next six months.

Al Vallario · 26 Jul 2006 at 11:01

iceman911 said:
great help, thanks all of you. This would be my 3rd site really. Personal website ive done for myself is http://www.itreview.org.uk [not finnished] and http://www.banburymotor.co.uk [ not far from completion, up and running tho]

Dan

It's not directly on topic, and I'm being blunt, but it has to be said:

How can people get CSS so wrong?

Beansprout · 26 Jul 2006 at 11:09

Al Vallario said:
It's not directly on topic, and I'm being blunt, but it has to be said:

How can people get CSS so wrong?

One word: Dreamweaver

iCraig · 26 Jul 2006 at 12:46

CSS should be written by hand in a dark room at 2.30am whilst being fellated.

zetec452 · 26 Jul 2006 at 13:58

Beansprout said:
One word: Dreamweaver

I still use dreamweaver

D4VE · 26 Jul 2006 at 16:52

nav... said:
Word of warning only charge a fixed fee, if you have the precise scope of what you will do set out to begin with. Else you'll end up making endless changes for the next six months.

Totally agree.

It depends really on your experience and portfolio.
Personally, I feel I need to build up my portfolio with 1 or 2 more decent sites before I can start to charge a bit more and do it for the money rather than mainly for the portfolio/experience.

To people starting out: At first, you need to be careful how much you ask for - if you havent got a good portfolio to show then you cant charge good money