May 6, 200917 yr Just wondering, out of general interest (I'm not interested in purchasing any), but how much can a client expect to pay for "a website"? I suppose there'd be various definitions on that, too. I got interested in this from looking at this link: http://www.dreamtemplate.com/index.php?action=viewall from leaaa's post.
May 6, 200917 yr That is a question without one answer! If you asked me to build you somewhere to live I could offer you a tent for £50 or a mansion for £1,000,000 - what you actually want lies somewhere in between. And so it is with web sites, unless you know exactly what's required quoting a price is impossible
May 6, 200917 yr Completely agree, you may need a 3 page website or 500 page site with all the mod cons, if you were to give a rough idea of what you want I am sure someone could give you an estimate.
May 7, 200917 yr You should better buy HTML,PHP etc for Dummies and read it!Then make website by yourself!Its not so hard(at least not the complicated one)...Try to experiment with WYSIWYG,Dreamweaver,Nvu...great programs for starters!
May 7, 200917 yr Author Interesting the ranges. As a photographer, we have heavy investments, the lenses (second hand beginning at the 200 pound mark, and topping at about 2,000 pounds), then camera bodies (digitals need to be replaced every few years), flashes, computer, software, website and promo... so to start up, I guess you'd better throw something like at least five to ten thousand pounds at it... for starters. What are things like for you guys?
May 7, 200917 yr When I first started making websites, three years ago (I dont consider myself a pro), the cost didn't work out to all that much: 1) Frontpage - which was already on my PC 2) Reseller Hosting Account (wasnt necessary) - £15/year 3) Photoshop - I bought CS2 from eBay for £90 4) FileZilla - free FTP software That's all I needed back then to make the simple (and poor compared to what I can do now) websites. The first few websites I made were done free just to build up a portfolio of work, then I used to charge about £100 for basic websites. Nowadays I work from a Mac and the costs were: 1) Photoshop CS4 - £400 2) Coda - £60 (before the Pound plummeted) 3) XAMPP - free 4) Reseller Hosting Account - £150/year The more expensive costs of working from the Mac were easily covered from the money I made from selling cheap sites, and with the additional investment I earn, upto £1000/site though some stuff I still do for £100. The best thing I found to get into developing websites was that I didn't to spend too much to get started, and the more expensive stuff I bought later was bought with money I'd already earned.
May 7, 200917 yr You paid for programs?Hmmm..dont ya know you can get em for free on torrents and warez websites?And you can get web hosting UNLIMITED bandwidt,STORAGE,etc...for only 6$ at month...Dreamhost Hosting....
May 7, 200917 yr You paid for programs?Hmmm..dont ya know you can get em for free on torrents and warez websites?And you can get web hosting UNLIMITED bandwidt,STORAGE,etc...for only 6$ at month...Dreamhost Hosting.... Ok warez and torrent version of commercial software is illegal, and usually riddled with viruses, in the uk trading standards are now checking the licenses of software used by legitimate web designers, so not recommended at all.
May 7, 200917 yr Author I'd rather pay for my stuff, as it helps the people who created the stuff, afford to live (even if it is Adobe). And, I hope that good spirit is returned to me, by photo editors and the like being prepared to buy my stuff, than steal it.
May 8, 200917 yr Website design and development can cost you £0 (it certainly does for me). In my case the only time I ever spend money is to purchase domain names and/or remote hosting. Back on topic the only thing it costs you is time (and web design/development can be very time consuming). For me (in the past) charges have been mainly focused on estimated labour charges and hosting. With that in mind the larger and more complex projects will take the longest to plan, implement and deliver which inevitably leads to costing more. Edit: Also, as it's being discussed, the reason it's £0 for me is the OS, software, technologies and languages being used is either open source or free
May 9, 200917 yr Author Website design and development can cost you £0 (it certainly does for me). In my case the only time I ever spend money is to purchase domain names and/or remote hosting. Back on topic the only thing it costs you is time (and web design/development can be very time consuming). For me (in the past) charges have been mainly focused on estimated labour charges and hosting. With that in mind the larger and more complex projects will take the longest to plan, implement and deliver which inevitably leads to costing more. Edit: Also, as it's being discussed, the reason it's £0 for me is the OS, software, technologies and languages being used is either open source or free I assume Linux. What program do you use for web design on Linux. I've got Linux on my computer, though I don't use it too often (damn Adobe PhotoShop doesn't work there, even on Wine; and damn iTunes... extreme vendor lock-in!!!)
May 9, 200917 yr Well in LINUX you have GIMP, BLUEFISH and FILEZILLA to start with. And also i am using RHYTHMBOX with IPOD. Works fine for me. Those are all open source. But time to time it does not hurt to donate a few quid to developers. UBUNTU is my personal choice on desktop since it saves me a lot of time with synaptic utility.
May 10, 200917 yr Getting back on track then...... I have had so many people ask me what i charge and yes like what BlueDreamer said you can't always put an exact price tag on it? But to give people a ruff idea of what it will cost them, i have set out my prices as follows.... One Page site (brochure) = £99 Three page site = £200 Six page site = £350 Nine page site = £599 Flash site = £700+ An ecommerce, even though i haven't the right skill set yet to take one on, would probably be £800+. But my main income at the moment (from working part-time) is coming from flash and illustrations.
May 16, 200917 yr Author It makes me weep when I see such low prices harming the industry. Are you talking about photography or web design?
May 20, 200917 yr <a href=”http://www.webdesignedge.net/” mce_href=”http://www.webdesignedge.net/”><img src=”http://www.webdesignedge.net/flickr/cool-picture.jpg” mce_src=”http://www.webdesignedge.net/flickr/cool-picture.jpg” alt=”cool pictures”></a>
May 27, 200917 yr I only started so I'm not charging a lot at all, I need to build my portfolio first. Then I'm hoping for good word of a mouth advertising
May 27, 200917 yr I only started so I'm not charging a lot at all, I need to build my portfolio first. Then I'm hoping for good word of a mouth advertising That's the way I did it too and it seemed to work out. Nowadays most work I get is Magento themes, though I still prefer backend coding more than design I saw someone on another board offering to do 10 simple HTML sites for free, which sounded like a good way to quickly build a portfolio, plus you can still make monies by charging for support or in case they decide they want to upgrade to a CMS etc. PS: You need a mute button on your website
May 30, 200917 yr I find it slightly peculiar that people can live (Eg. pay rent/mortgage and buy food) when offering "web design" for £199... Fair enough if it's more like a hobby done out of a bedroom in the evenings, but surely never as a professional? We spend somewhere between 10 and 25 days average on each project just to design, build and setup. Then you have the ongoing support, maintenance and SEO to consider too. But I suppose it's a bit like buying a car, some people are very happy with a cheap banger (like me), other want, or need, something more spectacular and are willing to pay the price. And I suppose, as the boys with the hottest cars get the ladies, the guys with the best websites get the customers ;-)
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