how much should I charge

[HaxorNubcake]

To avoid a quick lock, no need for exact prices and bids just vote in poll and comment.

I'm helping a guy out with a webpage and I'm thinking I won't charge too much and mostly do it as a favor and hope that he recommends me for future business and all that good stuff.

Would around $50 be reasonable? Do typical sites cost a LOT more?

 

[Juno]

See my vote, infinity + 1.

 

[her209]

I'd charge him by the hour.

 

[HaxorNubcake]

Originally posted by: her209
I'd charge him by the hour.

It'll probably be a weekend job...but if I was doing that what would be a reasonable /hour rate

 

[Nocturnal]

Hmm, it's kinda hard. When you do things for free people will tend to start to take advantage of you and ask for more more more because it's free. When you set a price, say per hour or per page, they have their limits set in their mind. You can try it out and see. If I trusted this guy a lot, like he was a family member of some sort, I would do it for free. Otherwise, I would charge by the hour or page.

 

[DAGTA]

I charge by the hour. My rate depends on complexity (is it basic HTML and some Javascript or ASP.NET with a MSSQL 2000 backend? etc...)

I charge much less or nothing for friends. Sometimes I exchange services (no, sickos, not like that ).

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: HaxorNubcake
To avoid a quick lock, no need for exact prices and bids just vote in poll and comment.

I'm helping a guy out with a webpage and I'm thinking I won't charge too much and mostly do it as a favor and hope that he recommends me for future business and all that good stuff.

Would around $50 be reasonable? Do typical sites cost a LOT more?

You think this is going to get locked yet you post it anyway?
How dumb is that?
BTW, the answer to your question is $42.00

 

[HaxorNubcake]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: HaxorNubcake
To avoid a quick lock, no need for exact prices and bids just vote in poll and comment.

I'm helping a guy out with a webpage and I'm thinking I won't charge too much and mostly do it as a favor and hope that he recommends me for future business and all that good stuff.

Would around $50 be reasonable? Do typical sites cost a LOT more?

You think this is going to get locked yet you post it anyway?
How dumb is that?
BTW, the answer to your question is $42.00

didn't really think it'd get locked as long as the posts were reasonable...it's crap like this I was trying to avoid

 

[OulOat]

Rate depends on the quality of your past works. Examples?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

What does he want done exactly? What kind of budget do you imagine he has in mind?

 

[olds]

Show us some of your previous work.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Hard to say ...
If you have been designing/building websites for a long time, and you have a bunch of previous satisfied customers, you can get away with charging a LOT more then someone who hasn't done any professional web design before.

If you are an experienced veteran, chances are you wouldn't post that here ...
So I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you probably have dabbled in webpages before, perhaps a homepage, and/or helping friends set up their home pages ... If that's true ... it depends on your skills and what the site entails. If it's just html with no DB, no PHP, no Javascript, etc ... nothing too fancy .. .then maybe $10 to $15 per hour for the first job, and if the customer is satisfied with the quality and timliness of your work ... in the future ...charge more maybe something like $20-$25 per hour, if not, work on your skills a bit .. and try again later.

If it's a site that requires extensive knowledge of SQL, PHP, html, maybe some Javascript and maybe some Perlscript ... then your services are more valuable and you can charge more ... maybe $20 per hour to start, and if they are satisfied charge a bit more for future buisness say ... $25 to $30 per hour ....


Again ... it's all about experience ..... if you don't have anything to show for your skills, your skills aren't worth as much the guy who has the experience, even if you do better work .....

 

[phisrow]

What the above said about scripting complexity. Also, it depends on how much graphic design the customer wants. Doing a good job with graphics(especially if you want your good job to look good on everything from some antedeluvian IE 4 box running at 800*600 256 colours to a modern box at 1600*1200 32bit colour and a real browser) is pretty nontrivial. Especially if you are expected to process a lot of photos and graphic elements, then hack something together that won't break visually, you are talking a diffirent league than the usual "make it look clean" level of graphic work.

 

[xcript]

I'd say about tree fiddy.