What is the cost of a cleaning website like this?

unwashed potato! said:
I have always done this myself and will continue to do so, but wondered what the actual cost of my website would have been had I hired someone to do it?
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Many moons ago, the agency i was at would have given you a rough quote around £30/40k (built on Concrete or WP) and then you would have ad-hoc support (£85 p/h) or a monthly maintenance package on top. Any funky website logic/functionality would obviously be extra but wouldn't be particularly cheap considering devs were billed out at £110 p/h, not that we saw that :(.

One-man-bands would be cheaper but certainly not the few grand people think websites cost.
 
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I'd be very surprised if a freelancer/one-man/small business would do that for less than £5K, and that's likely for a bare bones approach.

There are complexities regarding how the pages are built, how often they'd be updated and who's responsible for that update. You also have considerations for how you're storing the quotation requests. And then there's full device testing, SEO and analytics. All these things could push well past the £5K.

For example https://ei-team.org.uk/

I did the original version of this with my previous employer about 15 years ago. It's just static HTML pages with a very rudimentary content system for the Useful Info section. We charged £5K back then. I then reworked the implementation as a freelancer about 6 months ago and charged £1,500. That was purely a reskin and updating for responsive design largely based on a template I'd already built.
 
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Definitely not £30k, that’s something I’d expect to pay for a big e-commerce store for a build that will take 3-6 months.

I don’t see the build in question taking longer than 1/2 months personally, and I think £5k as a ball park figure is reasonable. Maybe more depending on who/what/how etc.

The quote and booking would be easily achieved using a plugin.

I’ve worked at digital agencies as a dev so know the score.
 
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I have only done one site, normally do desktop database application and the odd mobile app. Did a site for a customer just to learn Blazor: (Database-->Webservice-->Support Ticket site using C# Blazor server App). It took me 3 months to do the first working build but am still adding stuff and fixing any issues that crop up 6 months later. I charged £0 extra so was under paid. Could do the cleaning site < 2 months, it looks simpler than the support ticket site.
 
unwashed potato! said:
@FredFlint how much would you have charged?
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I get most of my work from a consultant so don’t price things up much. Also, I did not use any templets other than bootstrap, created the DB + Stored Procedures, coded the webservice and site myself in c# + css + js and hosted it all on Azure. It ended up been ~75K line of code + sql + css and a small amount of js. Overall, it was a good leaning experience. If a customer wanted something like that, I would think it would be a minimum of 20K (for the support site). I have no experience of using templets, I tend to code everything I need, but I also tend to work fast, I have worked with others that take much longer to get things done.
 
dacads said:
Definitely not £30k, that’s something I’d expect to pay for a big e-commerce store for a build that will take 3-6 months.

I don’t see the build in question taking longer than 1/2 months personally, and I think £5k as a ball park figure is reasonable. Maybe more depending on who/what/how etc.

The quote and booking would be easily achieved using a plugin.

I’ve worked at digital agencies as a dev so know the score.
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£125 a day of stretched out the 2 month?
 
FredFlint said:
I get most of my work from a consultant so don’t price things up much. Also, I did not use any templets other than bootstrap, created the DB + Stored Procedures, coded the webservice and site myself in c# + css + js and hosted it all on Azure. It ended up been ~75K line of code + sql + css and a small amount of js. Overall, it was a good leaning experience. If a customer wanted something like that, I would think it would be a minimum of 20K (for the support site). I have no experience of using templets, I tend to code everything I need, but I also tend to work fast, I have worked with others that take much longer to get things done.
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If you did that work. What did the consultant do?
 
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