Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
Web Designers can do web development, but not always necessaryily the case.
For example, I'm decent at Web Design (look and feel), but my strength lies more in the development of the application (functionality)
Web Developers vary in their price range. Depending on quality of product and skill level, as well as speed.
What we tend to do is quote how much time we believe we'll take in order to accomplish the tasks given out in order to achieve the functionality requested by the client (in this case, you)
Quoting is a dangerous game. If we underquote, we lose money, if we overquote, we get more money. But client always needs to agree to the quote for it to work too.
I built my own project planner (in order to keep track of time)
Originally posted by: troytime
I've eaten thousands of dollars worth of underquoted work (usually the result of miscommunication)
Originally posted by: drebo
Originally posted by: troytime
I've eaten thousands of dollars worth of underquoted work (usually the result of miscommunication)
I rewrote a project three times once due to miscommunications.
First it was "we don't have access to anything but ASP/Access so build it in that".
Then it was "we lied, we have PHP too, build it in that".
Then it was "oops, we want to put it on our ColdFusion server, build it in that".
So I did. Thankfully, I overbid the contract initially, but it still pissed me off. However, I don't think they ever ended up actually using it.
For smaller projects, I typically bill by the hour. My rate is $120/hr. For larger projects, I'll estimate a time and we'll agree to that amount.
Originally posted by: drebo
It was a contract with a local government, otherwise I would have billed them extra.
We wanted "in" with them, so my superiors made me bend over sideways. Oh well.