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trent2800
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Questions on website design pricing.

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I have been designing an ecom site for a friend. Recently, she has refered some of her friends to me for their design projects. I am trying to figure out what I should charge as a fair price considering that I am not an expert and I am doing this in addition to my full time job so, it will take as long as it will take. The latest person who requested my services wanted a site similar to the one that I had deisgned for my friend. So, I was wondering, using the site below as a guide, what would you charge for something similar? I can't seem to find much on the internet, so I assume that most people work on a hourly contract basis as opposed to a fixed rate. Any help on this confounding little detail would be much appreciated.

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Tyler

p.s. there is also a backend so my friend can update various items.

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We've had a few threads in The Enterprise regarding pricing choices. Have you read them?
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In your case it will be fair to charge on hourly basis.
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But if it's with your friend I think it will be better if you just charge on result
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inova1 wrote:But if it's with your friend I think it will be better if you just charge on result
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It depends I guess. Some people chargs on an hourly rate and others charge by finished product, depending on how complicated the website is. A friend of mine has his own company that he does web designing for, but he also has a full time job. So he tends to charge on the finished product. So a website of a certain size will cost a fixed rate.

Since you can't say when you'll have it finished (since you have a full time job as well) I would suggest you charge them when it's finished rather than by hour. But that's just my suggestion so feel free to say "pah! you fool" and ignore it :D
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idevlin wrote:It depends I guess. Some people chargs on an hourly rate and others charge by finished product, depending on how complicated the website is. A friend of mine has his own company that he does web designing for, but he also has a full time job. So he tends to charge on the finished product. So a website of a certain size will cost a fixed rate.

Since you can't say when you'll have it finished (since you have a full time job as well) I would suggest you charge them when it's finished rather than by hour. But that's just my suggestion so feel free to say "pah! you fool" and ignore it :D
Well, I wouldn't say that out loud... :D Just kidding. Well, since this thread started in April, I have finished the website and we negotiated a price. I will say that I believe that it was worth my time. We worked well together all in all, although we differed on color schemes. In case anyone is interested, the website is http://www.yantra-art.com. I'm obviously more left-brained than she is, I think the color scheme is a little over the top. But, that's all subjective. Thanks anyways for the suggestions. Tyler.
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trent2800 wrote:Well, I wouldn't say that out loud... :D Just kidding. Well, since this thread started in April, I have finished the website and we negotiated a price. I will say that I believe that it was worth my time. We worked well together all in all, although we differed on color schemes. In case anyone is interested, the website is http://www.yantra-art.com. I'm obviously more left-brained than she is, I think the color scheme is a little over the top. But, that's all subjective. Thanks anyways for the suggestions. Tyler.
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Ah, I didn't notice it was started in April. Apologies. Glad to hear it all went well though, not a bad site too! Nothing worse than having your hands tied design and colour scheme wise. I had that at one of my last companies....
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