Website Development Pricing

[Electric Amish]

I have been offered $900 for the following (excluding hosting/domain/software purchase):

~12 pages
BBS
E-Commerce (montly billing subscription to site)
DB for pictures/user profiles

Is this reasonable in today's market??

Thanks.

 

[yllus]

That's $30/hr USD for 30 hours of work, which isn't too awful really. If this is a side thing for you and not your main profession, I'd say it's reasonable.

 

[Electric Amish]

Yeah, it's a side thing.

 

[rh71]

going with yllus' estimate of 30 hours, you should get more than $30/hr for db and especially ecommerce stuff... depends on your portfolio.

As a guideline that I use, $25/hr is just HTML... you work yourself up from there.

The other factor is if he has a lot of other options (freelancers)... because anyone can undercut anybody if they're desperate enough.

 

[Electric Amish]

Well, I really don't have a portfolio.

There will be no Flash or anything fancy. Just basic HTML for the pages. I'll probably use YABB for the BBS and still haven't found a package for the e-Commerce stuff.

 

[Utterman]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Well, I really don't have a portfolio.

There will be no Flash or anything fancy. Just basic HTML for the pages. I'll probably use YABB for the BBS and still haven't found a package for the e-Commerce stuff.

Use something like OsCommer for the e-comm site and something like paypal for the payment gateway.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Utterman

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Well, I really don't have a portfolio.

There will be no Flash or anything fancy. Just basic HTML for the pages. I'll probably use YABB for the BBS and still haven't found a package for the e-Commerce stuff.

Use something like OsCommer for the e-comm site and something like paypal for the payment gateway.

Thanks. I've been looking at that. I need to make sure that these e-commerce scripts can perform subscription type billing (monthly/quarterly/annually).

 

[Shyatic]

OSCommerce is the best pre-made shopping cart online. Go with SMF forums (simplemachines)... it's leaner and faster than YaBB. If they want to pay for it, tell them to go with Invision board.

 

[Utterman]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: Utterman

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Well, I really don't have a portfolio.

There will be no Flash or anything fancy. Just basic HTML for the pages. I'll probably use YABB for the BBS and still haven't found a package for the e-Commerce stuff.

Use something like OsCommer for the e-comm site and something like paypal for the payment gateway.

Thanks. I've been looking at that. I need to make sure that these e-commerce scripts can perform subscription type billing (monthly/quarterly/annually).

Maybe something like this will work - Paypal reoccuring billing.

 

[Shlong]

For the e-commerce use paypal webpayments pro (they can use credit cards on the actual site itself instead of needing to go to paypals site) & use cubecart as the shopping software cart (easy to template for). No need for merchant account & stuff this way, just goes straight to a paypal account.