Pedro Kostelec wrote:
As we are talking about money.What would be the price of a very simple
but
acceptable web page? And how long does it take to the "pros" to create
one?
Step 1:
Determine your hourly rate. This may be a flat rate, or you may skew the
rate depending on the type of client [for example: corporate clients
tend to have more dosh and expect higher rates than poor artists]
Step 2:
Determine what you need to build/do, broken down as finely as possible
into smaller sub-tasks. Ask many questions so that you have a very clear
idea of what they want; give all the options, make this process
transparent. Preferably you can break down your tasks into steps that
are 30min or less per step [so that you know you are accurate in your
estimates]
Step 3:
Multiply these two together.
Step 4:
Pad this estimate based on how coarse or fine you were in step 2.
Padding is for me, generally anywhere between 10% and 100%; really it
all depends on how confident you are on your estimates and on how clear
things are at the start of the project.
Step 5:
Compare this estimate to the clients budget. Most clients won't tell you
upfront their budget, so you will have to negotiate a price. Final price
might be higher than your step 4, but generally it's lower. That's the
'art' of it.
;)
It's not a simple 'websites cost this' quote. Though you could say 'very
simple' websites probably range between 100$ and 1,500$ -- but that is
also not saying anything. And there are other factors like:
Design times can vary greatly, you can use a pre-made template, or you
can fine-craft one that takes you three days to make - sometimes you
want it to be done quickly, but the client keeps requesting changes...
it's quite the dance sometimes.
Templates: how easy it is for the client to edit it themselves? Is it
all static HTML thrown together from images? Or is it all flash+xml
based with SEO, statistics and template driven? The later can make a
very simple page suddenly far more time consuming with no apparent
change in the front-end/user experience.
Experience will answer these questions.
Good luck,
Sebastian.
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