Typical Costs
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- svrsolid
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Dear Joomla Gurus and RocketTheme heroes,
I have done a few websites over the last year on a volunteer basis (church, squad site, game related site, etc), but now I have a business referral. As I don't build websites for a living, I'm at a loss for giving a time and cost estimate (well more of the cost and not the time part). If you don't mind, could you share what you typically charge? Flat rate for basic, hourly for highly customized? etc.
PM me if you like and don't want to share the information publicly.
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- svrsolid
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- Search is my friend. I found a couple of threads from mid-2006 and late-2006 and in general I agree with the consensus of the threads, but my question is pricing the hourly rate. I work for a services company for my day job and we charge 1/2 to 2/3 of our upstream vendors hourly rates. Their rates are 300 to 500/hr (granted my day job is dealing with large mission critical servers and storage subsystems), so I'm at a loss of what's fair for a side gig doing website modifications?
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- Bob Ateah
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First off, understand completely what the client wants and ensure that the client understands exactly what you will do for him or her.
A contract that details everything is good protection for both parties.
My advice, calculate what hourly rate you can live with, estimate the amount of hours that it will take to complete the site and then multiply the amount of hours that you think that it will take by .5 to get a closer estimate of the actual amount of total hours required.
Good luck. - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- Mack
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I'd just run away. Don't look back, just run. I don't know how web designers do it. I couldn't.
You're building something for someone who can't do it themselves so they really don't understand if it can/can't be done. If they do understand a little, and just don't have them time, then you're building something for someone who will think "it's just a couple of extra lines of code". Those couple extra lines might take you 8 hours to figure out, and they'll want to pay you for 1.
Once you touch it, you own it.
I'd say if you already have work that pays well, take your spare time and go have a pint or two and just pass the business referral to someone who does it all the time. It's like any business, so many things to know about how to deal with your clients and avoid trouble, the first few will probably always be a nightmare.
If I did web designs you'd probably end up reading about me on CNN.
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- SureLurksalot
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Or justgo have a pint or twoand then decide what to charge..... ;D
Tell them here's what it will cost. xxxdollars (after drinking said pints) and then if they change anything else charge them again.....and get it in writing. (always even if they are "friends")
Works just fine for me! - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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