Pricing of the Web Sites

[(PSD) Sergiy]

Hello fellas,

I am doing a Web Site for a person who is salling the cars over seas. I have currently finished with most of the pages, and today i will meet him and he wants to know the price for the Web Site, and plus i will be working for him Updating the pages all the time.
Please, can somebody help me or provide me with the link?
Thanks you

- here is the link for the Web Site http://home.comcast.net/~pihotskiy/ainer.jpg

[(PSD) Sergiy]

Guys, plese i need help reall fast

[theKeeper]

Hi Sergiy...

The price you charge is completely based on what YOU think your time and abilities are worth. On the flip side... the client will usually judge your price based on the quality of your work, and the efficiency with which you produce it. That can also be related to how well you matched the clients vision/outlines.

Based on these simple variables, you'll have to figure out what price you deem fair for both parties.

You may well find prices listed for template designs on those template sites... but those prices are based solely on supply/demand, and are keyed in to volume sales; not a one-off job. Checkout their pricing for a template if the client wants to be the sole owner of a specific design. It usually runs upward of $1000+.

For simplicity sake too perhaps, especially if you're just starting out in the field, use a per hour rate to come up with a general amount, then tweak that up/down accordingly.

Hope that helps.

[(PSD) Sergiy]

Thanks Keeper, i would use your advice and calculate everething on paper. There are few interesting links i found, i will choose something between all those prices.
This Web Site will be 10+ pages and the first page KB Size is only 64kb with all design that you see on the picture over.

Thanks for the help

[theKeeper]

Yw.

That's a decent page size for a site like that. Well done.

[(PSD) Sergiy]

Thanks Keeper i apreciate your comment, but my client doesnt...

You see i made a version of that Web Site for him and later on he found some other Web Site on the Internet which he really liked, and he wants me to redesign the whole new version of the Web Site, which going to look somewhat like this http://us.poseidonauto.com/

I really hate going deep into Dreamwaver, but this time it is unavoidable. I basicly know how to built the structure for buttons how organize images on page, the left info box which going to change with monitor resolution, but i have no idea how to keep top toolbar expanding under different monitor resolutions. For example if you change resolution on your monitor, you`ll see that the banner looks basicly the same and you dont have a horizonal scroll bar underneath your page... any clue?

Thanks,

[Joy Foraker]

Hi I agree with the Keeper about quality and time, etc.

Additonal thoughts: it is my belief that you should give the client a price and obtain his approval before you start his site. Also ask client to pay along as each page is finished. I never deliver a page until its paid for. Also It would be advisable to get him to commit on a design (either one you present to him or one he gives you) and any changes after you deliver will cost extra.

In other words if you are going to do this professionally, you should have your clients approval for price, site design and cost to operate before you begin spending time in his behalf. Delivering a site and then asking to be paid " without a pre-job agreement" is asking for trouble.

I find it easier to give the client a per page price rather than an overall. That way the client feels secure that he will not have excessive labor to pay when site is finished.

If you are still concerned about what to charge there must be a billion web designers on the net with published prices - price compare.

[(PSD) Sergiy]

Thanks Joy

[hydrospell]

The horizontal bar appears on my 1024 X 768 screen?

Anyway, if you want to make a flexible stretchable image, make it a tiling background. For example, view this page:
www.sabah.edu.my/itma026/index.php

The sidebar middle portion is actually a tiling background, so it will expand automatically when i add more text inside the sidebar. Hope it helps you.

[sfm]

I wonder how this all panned out?
I remember being in the same spot over 10 years ago excited over my first website and actually getting paid
11 years down the track and I get 2 new sites or remakes a week.
sfm