How much should I charge!? (web dev)

[degrootm]

I've been asked to do a full redesign for one my city's biggest Auto wholesalers.

Besides a clean, sharp, fresh design, he needs an HTML front-end for his daughter to use; this Summer, she's going to be using the HTML-driven database editor to add and remove vehicles (with pictures, and information) from the online database.

Two questions:

1) What should I go with to make to backoffice? PHP? ASP? MYSQL? I've had one year of college-level C++ and other minor programming experience, so I'm going to need to learn a bit.

2) What should I charge for the design + backoffice? My designs can easily hang with the best non-flash web development businesses.

 

[dOrKuS]

As far as price goes, do you have any examples we could see to help judge?

 

[degrootm]

Here's some stuff I've done in the past, but this is work I've done quickly... I haven't put my better work in the portfolio-in-progress yet.

http://www.michaeldegroot.com/port/

 

[Adul]

if it is pretty complex, and you are doign all the work, hell 500+ is cheap. It really depends how much you will be doing and since you are not that experience with what you want to do yet, I would charge what someone with several years of deisgn experience would charge.


500 and up is reasonable.

 

[degrootm]

would $1,200 be reasonable?

I was under the impression that a fully databased/ecommerce site + layout can be around $2-3k, if not more.

 

[Czar]

for the management system do it in php, mostly because its so easy to get help on the net for php... also its fast and easy to learn.
btw, if this is your first php or whatnot site then exepct to spend 100x more time on it than you expect.

 

[notfred]

I don't mean to be insulting here, I'm jsut trying to point out what it looks like is true. (if it's not, my apologies).

1) What should I go with to make to backoffice? PHP? ASP? MYSQL? I've had one year of college-level C++ and other minor programming experience, so I'm going to need to learn a bit.

How do you even nkow that what they want done is possible, how can you possibly begin to quote a price w/o knowing the language you're going to write it in? What kind of server does it run on? I hope you don't plan on running ASP on unix. I think you're getting in over your head and it's not really fair to your customer to act as if you know what you're doing when you really have no idea. You've never written code for the web before? How do they know that they're not getting code filled with security holes? Do you even know what security problems there are in your server-side language of choice? I'm guessing not, since you haven't even picked one yet. You've never coded for the web before, but you're going to try and do a very large project like this, on a deadline, and expect to come out with a decent product? Good luck.

2) What should I charge for the design + backoffice? My designs can easily hang with the best non-flash web development businesses.

Charge $35/hour or so for design and subcontract the development work to someone who knows what he's doing.

 

[degrootm]

this doesn't seem to me to be a "very large project".

If I'm not mistaken, we're talking about a redesign and a fairly elementary database. What's to risk if the system is "hacked" anyways; 10 or so (at any given time) vehicle entries? There are no online transactions, so I think you're overreacting a bit.

 

[RGN]

How much should I charge!?

for a gram?