How much is fair to charge for making a web site?
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I’m not a professional programmer or anything, but I know enough HTML and web design to make basic web pages.
An acquaintance has asked me if I could make a web page for his local business, an office building cleaning service. Since he wants me to put in the time to make it a good, professional looking site to market his company, he wants me to bill him. I want to give him a price that beats what he could get from a professional service – that’s the whole point of him coming to me with this – but is still fair for me. Any suggestions?
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Give him a price he can’t reject! Since it’s your first project, you could charge lesser and grow your portfolio for future use…do a good job and he might introduce people to you. Marketing by word of mouth.
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November 7th, 2010 at 9:07 am
The best method of determining the actual cost of designing a business website is to charge by the hour at a particular hourly rate. Say you will design a 4-6 series of webpages and it will take approximately x number of hours which represents the total amount of services rendered that can be noted in an invoice. If a professional web designer charges $50 per hour, and you consider yourself to be an amateur, then start with a $30-$35 hourly rate and extrapolate against the total time to create 4-6 webpages which will result in total cost of a website project. And also factor in any monthly charge for maintenance of the webpage(s) which may involve updating sales items, pertinent business info such as the business address, telephone number, etc.
Good luck!