MancunianCreative

You don't want to put off those looking to register only to post a job though. Bit of a catch 22

YES! the 2nd one

https://www.facebook.com/Parajumpers?sk=info Been asked by a customer to do this to their facebook page, look on the right hand side, there is the option to recommend the page to a friend, anyone seen this before? I thought facebook had stopped the suggest to friends feature. How have they done this?

You can't even buy a can for 50p no more!

What do I get for 50p? I'll turn on my computer......

I love the awesomely detailed enquiries that I get like this; How much for a website? I could cry every time I get one of those fantastic enquiries!

Well I reckon I was a good 30-40% lower than I would have liked to have been. But the project is interesting and the clients that the site will attract could/would/should lead to further web work for me. So I was keen to go tight and possibly even just cover costs to a certain extend. 80 hrs for Magento or 80hrs inclusive of design? I quoted 75hrs done.

that doesnt happen enough! But I do know I've lost a couple of jobs going too cheap.

Ive quoted a customer this week who came back saying that our price was "without hesitation CONSIDERABLY outside of their expected budget, by a long way". I'd quoted a fair bit under £2k for a Magento store, blog, dozen or so info pages, heavy design twitter and facebook integration, online book and availability for courses (extra from the shop) a good chunk of work. I went in pretty tight on the price as I quite fancied the job. But crikey. Sounds like he wanted it for £20 from that response. Really seen my arse with it Oh and I had another today contact me through facebook, saying they want a site, was fairly simple, a day's work possibly two and before I'd had a chance to even send my quote I got a message saying by the way I aint paying more than £100 for it! FML

I really think you should learn some design and start from the beginning. I don't wish to be insulting but there is no way you can charge for that.

The Web Designer Forum Guide to making friends. 1. Call the professionals that you require the help of geeks. 2. Ask them to work for free. 3. Become aggressive when said professionals don't like the 45,587 'awesome' work for free idea they have heard hat day. and to answer your question, web development agencies is a large term. Some agencies do branding, some do not, they may be more programming side. Browser development may be undertaken by some but it isn't something you'll find many doing. I worry for your job if this id how you recruit business partners.

This a trick question?

Crayons.

Cheers for the input fellas. As ive mentioned earlier, when I'm giving these it'll be face to face so I'm hoping it is an interesting talking point. For the most part clients will have my main contact details. This is just an extra thing to remember me by and they might show a friend.

Ste - isn't SEO nuke a spamathon?