Help Web Site Design Budgets

[sb-1]

Guys,
We are in the process of designing a new web site.....
what budget will I need to pay to get a desent job.

Site will be approx. 20 pages.

Cheers

Steve

[Nacnud]

:suckinthroughteeth:
I'm sure this was discussed about 6 months ago and the numbers frightened me!
Ever considered doing it yourself? It's not too hard once you have managed to get your first "Hello World" page up there.

[JonRB]

Surely this is like asking "how much does it cost to service my car?"

Define the car. Define which service it needs. Define whether you want an odd-job mechanic, a specialist independent or a main dealer to do it. etc, etc.

You can pay as much or as little as you want with web design, so my answer would probably be "roughly the same length as a piece of string".

[Edt]

No No.. EXACTLY the same length as a piece of string!!

Feel free to mail me via my profile Steve.. I have produced a bunch of sites, prices havent shocked my clients to date, could at least give you an idea of costs.

www.dreamytime.com

Regards, Ed

[simpo two]

FWIW I've been known to make simple but clean, effective websites from £400 (client supplies pics and text). That price includes many tweaks and changes, and hosting too.

[pmanson]

simpo two said:

FWIW I've been known to make simple but clean, effective websites from £400 (client supplies pics and text). That price includes many tweaks and changes, and hosting too.

hmmmm..... I'm going to be doing a few websites for people over the summer. Just pics and text. Is it easy just to charge an hourly fee then bill them? Or charge a fee per page?

[PetrolTed]

Not many clients are going to be keen on an hourly rate... Bill for the job and build in some contingency.

[sb-1]

Edt said:

No No.. EXACTLY the same length as a piece of string!! Feel free to mail me via my profile Steve.. I have produced a bunch of sites, prices havent shocked my clients to date, could at least give you an idea of costs. www.dreamytime.com Regards, Ed

Cheers Ed,

You have mail.

Steve

[pmanson]

PetrolTed said:

Not many clients are going to be keen on an hourly rate... Bill for the job and build in some contingency.

Thats what I thought but I have no idea what to charge!

£200 seems a reasonable figure though for a mate.

[simpo two]

pmanson said:

hmmmm..... I'm going to be doing a few websites for people over the summer. Just pics and text. Is it easy just to charge an hourly fee then bill them? Or charge a fee per page?

Very hard - there are easy pages and hard pages, then there's number of pages, and will they provide everything you need ready to drop in or will you have to crunch everything in PhotoShop? And after all that, how many changes are they going to make, and how many updates do you include?

Some you win, some you lose. I don't mind simple Pshopping in the price but retyping text from pdfs and picking through 80Mb PS files with a hundred layers to extract a graph is taking the piss a bit.