website design - costs?

[percy]

My teenage son has just put a website together for a local business and they have asked him to send an invoice. This is his first website and he has no idea what to charge - any tips?
It has 4 or 5 pages, mostly text/images and a simple contact form. I'm sure that this is like asking how long is a piece of string, but any help would be great. The website in question is www.pktevents.co.uk
He is aware that it needs a couple of tweeks and he'll be addressing that later in the week.

[bulldog5046]

£50 - Based on it being a few hours of work from what i can see.

Trying to be a bit constructive here, he should seek to remedy these issues as a minimum:

http://try.powermapper.com/Reports/3711b6df-d240-4...

They should help him see the mistakes he made and/or bit's he missed that are essential.

[Dejay1788]

As said above, it has some issues. I wouldn't charge them until they are fixed.

After that, £50 - £100 would seem fair given the time taken.

[petemurphy]

i know hes your son n all but i wouldnt be happy if that website represented my business - needs a lot of work. on the plus side you'll soon get some ideas on here how to improve it!

[grumbas]

There's quite a lot wrong with that site, but then again good to see someone giving it a go.

If it was me I'd be fixing up the obvious issues and then trying again to produce something a step up to further his knowledge/experience - assuming the 'client' is receptive to the idea.

If this is something he's serious about I'd ditch the drag and drop editor and start learning html/css, as they're essential skills.

I'd take a look at the bootstrap framework and the numerous (free) templates for it out there, see how they work, break them, and then try and modify/expand on them to get the end result he's after. In addition to that the info/tutorials on w3schools aren't bad as a starting point to grasp the basics, but they do have their limitations.

[percy]

Thanks for the comments - he isn't keen on drag and drop as he thinks it is 'cheating' and so is learning CSS and HTML. All of the copy and images were provided by the client and it was designed to the spec that was asked for.
We were thinking £50-ish but weren't too sure. I'm sure that he'll quickly learn from his mistakes.

[petemurphy]

percy said:

Thanks for the comments - he isn't keen on drag and drop as he thinks it is 'cheating' and so is learning CSS and HTML. All of the copy and images were provided by the client and it was designed to the spec that was asked for.
We were thinking £50-ish but weren't too sure. I'm sure that he'll quickly learn from his mistakes.

mistakes r the best way of learning code! good luck to him check out teamtreehouse.com if u wanna encourage him

[Frimley111R]

percy said:

Thanks for the comments - he isn't keen on drag and drop as he thinks it is 'cheating' and so is learning CSS and HTML. All of the copy and images were provided by the client and it was designed to the spec that was asked for.
We were thinking £50-ish but weren't too sure. I'm sure that he'll quickly learn from his mistakes.

Drag and drop sites use templates and this will help him with design. The challenge he has is two fold. Firstly to understand how to design an effective website and then to understand how to build one. In larger agencies there will be someone who designs the site and then someone who builds it (makes everything work). We produce strategies and wireframes for sites but leave design and build to our specialists. Some work at an agency will help him hugely initially.