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Lonewolf
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K im gonna be making a website for this company, And i wanna know how much should i charge and how much monthly to keep it up?
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you could bill out per hour, or charge a base/contract fee for setting it up.

it all depends what you are doing, if its just simple coding or doing the entire layout and an elaborate database - blah blah blah...

look at the work you'll do, and figure out something you think is fair.

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its everything layout,coding. Its for a race car racing, its not much. What am asking is how much should i charge?
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It really depends on a lot of things, the job at hand, your experience, where you are, how big the site is going to be, what kind of ongoing maintenance you are going to provide, etc...

It would be impossible for us to tell you any sort of ballpark figure without a lot more information about the project and the services you are going to be providing, notwithstanding the fact that in different areas (countries/towns) what you can charge will be, well, different...

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Post by Crashin »

I hate providing quotes to clients. I always feel like I'm way over the top, and then later find out I screwed myself by not asking for more up front. :x

My advice: if you are designing their whole system, do as much of that as you can before giving them the quote. Otherwise, you might end up either doing a lot of free work or trying to convince them that they should pay more than originally told. :)
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Post by Lonewolf »

yeah ok kool thanks but this guy has a tight budget. Its a pretty small project. very simple coding, Is 100 enough
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Post by tsg »

I base my rates on $60 per hour (but I am very fast). With years of experience, I can estimate how long it will take me to do a project. I ask A LOT of questions before I give a quote because there is ALWAYS something they want added or didn't think of.

Once I estimate on how long it is going to take, I add 2 hours for changes, then about another 20% on top of that, so my esitimate is between what I estimate and the a +2 and +20%.

I always ask for 50% deposit, because people get excited about a website then fizzle fast, so you might get screwed.

So you need to guess how long it will take, decide on your rate based on experience (I started off charging $15 an hour) and also figuring in if this website might generate you addidtional clients.
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oh i wasent gonna go by hour just a setup fee
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perhaps make the site layout, etc for a small setup price (these days i dont say a nicely designed webpage is worth less then $100 US) and tell him you will charge hourly for maintenance..

but it honestly depends on your experiance and what your doing.. a simple site with store hours and contact information should never be as expensive as a site with product catalogue, customer logins for invoices, etc.; and a paypal or shopping cart. plus the layout and design, plus all the things they want but didn't mention at the time your coding it :P

have a look at rentacoder.com and see what people are offering for similar sites.. that could help your cause (seeing a fair price AND being able to justify the price by showing examples of the going rate for similar projects)


just make sure its hourly wage for updates, or you'll be updating the page contantly. setting an hourly wage seems to give people the incentive to figure out how to do simple updates on their own :P
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