Client Site - What do you think.. and what should I charge?

[Phuz]

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How much would you charge for a design as such, with a php gallery, and a blogger for her to update it herself.. etc, there shouldn't be much variation between pages, just lots of content and galleries...

So.. what do you think.. on both questions

This only took 3-4 hours (ugh) and I know its nothing special, but its a client.. so.. bleh

 

[diskop]

How much do you usually charge?

 

[Josh]

I'd charge her $200+. You could probably make more but just invent some mumbo jumbo and use big words like PHP-coding-enabled and other such technical terms.

 

[AZGamer]

Originally posted by: Phuz
IMAGE How much would you charge for a design as such, with a php gallery, and a blogger for her to update it herself.. etc, there shouldn't be much variation between pages, just lots of content and galleries... So.. what do you think.. on both questions This only took 3-4 hours (ugh) and I know its nothing special, but its a client.. so.. bleh

I'd subtract $200 for that spelling of "colour".

 

[Phuz]

$200? Hehe.. flat rate = $500. But I've always been afraid to really charge people before too.

I've been advised that i should say all said and done for $700-$800.

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by: Phuz
$200? Hehe.. flat rate = $500. But I've always been afraid to really charge people before too.

I've been advised that i should say all said and done for $700-$800.

Me = joking. Some dude once paid me $250 for this really crappy flash that I did that took no less than 20 minutes . Was sweet, yea $750 seems fine.

 

[LaBang]

I don't think that the font looks very good. especially in the frame. but otherwise it is a nicely done site. I think you should charge $300

 

[dakata24]

Originally posted by: LaBang
I don't think that the font looks very good. especially in the frame. but otherwise it is a nicely done site. I think you should charge $300

$300 sounds good. $750 sounds like much..

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Wow that looks great Phuz. The font like stated earlier is a little hard to read because its so narrow but otherwise great site. I'd charge her something along the lines of $300-$400

 

[notfred]

At least $60/hour for someone w/ your talent.

 

[Phuz]

images updated.. but, I think I'd have a hard time charging anything more than $500.. this is the first "Clean" looking site i've ever made, so it will be good to have it in my portfolio alone...

Thanks for the kind words...

The text is non-AA'd arial or something... i don't have any fonts
I'll work on that.


Thanks again.

 

[aphex]

Eleventy Billion Trillion Dollars.

 

[Phuz]

bump

 

[rh71]

I'm doing p/t freelance also but I charge cheap because I want to build up my portfolio first. Almost 2 years ago, I did divetristar.com for $500 and other people were telling me I should have charged upwards of $800-$1200 for it after they saw the site. The time I spent on it was irrelevant to me because I work at my own pace because of detail and I didn't charge him for that. If I were to do another site for a real client, I would charge at least $500 for straight HTML, and a few hundred more for dynamic web languages (coldfusion, asp, php - if you write it yourself), and a couple hundred more for Flash content. This is STILL considered cheap.

My point is, any web-work under $500 is a STEAL for the client. Usually professionals designers will tell you to charge what you think you are worth (experience + expertise in your tools). I haven't gotten to the $1000+ mark yet because I still need to build my portfolio, but that's just me and my intentions.

If it's only a couple pages with images, then of course you're going below $500. But don't ever sell yourself short. I'd price your site at least $400-$500 and make sure they know you're using PHP and not only HTML. Don't forget to mention the graphics work even if it's from a template. You can be honest, but again, don't sell yourself short. This is a job too.

 

[Phuz]

Thanks for the input Rh71, so very true. You can't put a time/hourly wage on the creative process..

All graphics are original of course.. I'm going to just tell her $500. That is Canadian dollars by the way..


Surprised how little interest this forum has in graphics..

 

[Phuz]

She didn't like that site at all.. and i quote:
The design as it is doesn t give me any sense of the purpose of the site.

evil old woman..

 

[Pastore]

anyone who says under 500 bucks for that doesnt know the web design business... that template alone without content would go for around 100-200... 700-800 with full content would be a fair price for the 7 or so pages i see... if you decide in the future to continue doing webdesign for people, i have a suggestion... CONTRACT CONTRACT CONTRACT!!!! never do a job without a written contract... another good thing is to get half of the money up front so its not as hard to get stiffed on a job you put your valuable time into...

nice site

 

[LordMaul]

I'd do $750. At least.

 

[Phuz]

Yeah, I usually contract... this lady is.. ugh, anyway.. $100-200 for a design just doesn't exsist.. maybe linear line art css tables and crap like that can go for so low, but not graphics.

 

[T2T III]

Phuz is from Canada. Are we talking American $$ or Canadian $$ for his work?

 

[Phuz]

CDN funds.


hehe

 

[T2T III]

CDN funds.

Yeah. So the rates posted by other users from the U.S. should be adjusted upwards to reflect Canadian currency.

 

[LaBang]

I'll revise my $300 to $576.21. Good work.

 

[Phuz]

Well.. I'd say graphics artists over here make way less than down there.. (quality ones, at least)

I'll revise my $300 to $576.21. Good work

Isn't that a scary conversion