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Hello Friends!I'm a new graduate of web designing.
I don't know what's the cost of a website?
I'm often asked how much do they (my clients) pay for their website. I don't know.
Can you give me an idea?
Thank you very much.
Nandy
It varies a lot. Some sites might not cost anything but it comes down to choosing the right hosting and domain name packages for you. I find it hard to believe you graduated web design without knowing this... Heres a headstart www.1and1.co.uk
Matt
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I think Nandy is asking how much would she charge for her work in designing a page or a website, not how much for domain registration or hosting fees.
"I'm often asked how much do they (my clients) pay for their website. I don't know."
It depends very much on what kind of web design work you're doing, where you are located, and how good you are. Do you specialize in web design or web programming? What tools and technologies do you use to create your clients' websites?
Personally, I charge around $30/hour for PHP work and $40/hour for ASP.NET work. If the job doesn't require any programming (ie all HTML), I don't bother taking it, because they can get better work for cheaper somewhere else.
If I was any good at the graphic design portion of it or did flash, I would use different rates for each of those.
-SN
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As well as SN's advice, I recommend you look in your local business directory. (The equivalent over here in the UK is the Yellow Pages, I can't remember what yours is called.) This will list all of the popular web design/programming companies. Give them a quick ring and ask for their prices. If you come across as a potential client, they'll be more than willing to inform you.
Then you could simply undercut or price around them. It's all your choice. Obviously, if you're too expensive, you won't get any customers. And if you're too cheap, no-one will respect you enough — they'll think you'll give an inferior service.
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Some good advise so far.
You also have to consider your position in the market place.
If you are just setting up on your own you dont have a client base who know and trust you and can recommend you to others.
You may need to be noticeably cheaper than others in order to build up this base (this is ofcourse after you have followed 'James Greenwood' suggestion and found out what others charge).
This shouldn't be a big problem as you probably don't have as many overheads to consider either.
be careful not to appear 'too cheap' though otherwise people think you aren't very good.
As a guide I charge around £25/hour (approx $40) with a discounted 'daily rate' for larger projects.
Wizard ICT. Microsoft Certified Professional
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Hello Tautitan, SN, James, Wizard!Wow. I learned a lot.
I did graduate in web design. (2 year course)
Thank you very much for everything. I really learned a lot.
Thank you.
By the way, the latest client I'm doing is: http://www.skintlbeauty.com/temp
You might check it out.
I do use flash and I don't know how much to charge them.
Thank you!Nandy
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SN, not sure where you're living, but we get $75/hr for PHP here in California. Then again...we also pay $550,000 for 4 bedroom houses. Ugh! =)
Nandy, the advice of looking in your local business directory is a good idea, just to get an idea on what people in your area are charging.
I personally have never done a website for much under $600, and it pretty much goes up from there. I'd say on average, our clients pay $1,200 - 1,500 for a nice site. I also don't deal with individuals...strictly businesses, and medium to large businesses at that. I try to stay away from the small mom and pop businesses, honestly because they don't want to pay you what you're worth.
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I'm in Arizona...Our cost of living isn't as high as California's, but as all you !@#$% Californians invade our lovely state, the cost of living has shot up. I bought my 4 bedroom, 2000 sq ft home for $130k two years ago, now the same model is going for $250k.
Maybe I am woefully underpaid...I'll have to take the advice given and see what the professionals around here charge. Another good way to find out how much you're worth is to go to monster.com and see how much contractors doing the kind of work you want to do are getting. Add 25-50% to the advertised rates to compensate for the non-full time job factor.
-SN
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Do not charge per page. I would not charge exclusively per hour either, but it's your business.
The market price (i.e. cheap) for PHP programmers with experience is $25/hr. That's artificially low, for many reasons. But that is above monkey coder, well below developer. In overpriced housing areas such as East/West coasts, $70-$80/hr is reasonable for a firm with some polish. This typically includes database administration on all single-tier projects (excluding a normalized schema).
Graphic designers are about $40/hr market, $60/hr for more selective, and $80/hr for a firm (plus the firm's ~25% overhead cost). XHTML/CSS/jscript work goes for $40/hr *max*. Flash follows graphic design. If you add more marketing buzz (logo design, maybe simple publishing) to your service you can hike the price by ear.
The vast majority of websites are $1k-$4k jobs. Typical base price is ~$500 for a website, which includes a host of little extras and time consulting on marketing. That is with virtually no programming. No serious design work either. This is a stepping stone for you - to a better contract or a better client. Like selling refigerators, start with the cheap sale and work up briskly with confidence.
Typically jobs are ~1k, which involve a basic CMS package tailored to the handful of features incorporated into the site. Say with a photographer, they get a photo album, calendar, the simplest Paypal integration, and a decent web design (~$1k).
The next level up (over ~1.5k) is where your pricing is extremely important, because competition is thick and very capable. Sell what you are good at here and polish it. This is where your bread comes from. You gain experience and work here to help win the "big" contracts ($4k-$8k). If you are a business person, build contacts and drink on weekends with small business consultants. If you are a programmer, build your code library one module at a time and innovate.
When the competition is tough, do not underprice yourself. Instead, innovate. (If it is new to the client, it counts as innovation). That said, acknowledge your value in the market. Web design isn't for everyone, either.
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Very enlightening.I actually charged them 5K for the whole website. (www.skintlbeauty.com/temp)
And that's 2 of us working (with my friend).
But they (our clients) most of the time have no idea how much to pay either.
We (fresh grad web designer here in our country, Philippines) have this misconception of: if we charge our clients about 1K or bigger, they might see us as overpricing. Now I know we're very wrong. But I'm glad you enlightened me about this.
Thank you very much.
I must know my value and worth in the market. That's what I'll do.
Thank you, Thank you.
Nandy
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Very nice work. All that pink makes me want to barf almost as much as the 'ingrown hair' picture, but I'm definitely not the target demographic. :-)
If they were happy paying $5k, by all means keep doing what you're doing. You'll make a good living at $5k per site if you can keep working.
-SN
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Forgive me. I miscalculated the conversion. It's 25K pesos, multiplied by 55 = US Dollars.
It's not 5K, I mistyped.
Thank you very much.I like the feedback ;)
Nandy
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About 500 dollars for the whole website.
Fair or I should have charged higher?
http://www.skintlbeauty.com/temp
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I'll say it's fair.
In here (indonesia), "normal price" for a static website with standard (reasonable) pages like that is around 300-400 USD. But I do think that your design is good :P So it's actually your choice, an original design can be very expensive.
And btw, IMHO I think you should put a standard text navigation (non-flash), maybe at the bottom :D
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> "Normal price"
Because sometimes it can be as low as $10 per-page when done by someone who offers webdesign service because he/she just found out how to use frontpage, but sometimes it can be $10000+ for a single simple worthless site when you get the right "client" *sigh* The "client" wrote a lot(tttt) more in their book, that's the situation in here.
Link
nilai 2 Miliar rupiah itu untuk sebuah website yang dibangun dari PHPNuke murni tanpa tambahan addon buatan
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"that 210,526.31 USD for a pure PHPNuke-based website without a custom Mod/addon"
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In my opinion, $500 was a little on the low side - at least by US & Arizona standards. Because of the flash and the obviously professional graphic design job, I would have charged around $1000.
But, as you're just starting out and you need to build a client base, maybe $500 wasn't too bad.
-SN
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Yeah, around $1000 sounds about right on for that project.
SN: I LOVE Arizona! Maybe I'll retire there someday. =P
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Hey Friends!Thank you for ALL the feedback!
Now my heart doesn't worry that much... He he...
I really appreciate your comments!
Thank you!
Nandy
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Wow, 25,000 pesos? The cost of living there is much lower than in the US, from the little I know of the Phillipines, so this is pretty good. I think you're doing okay! Congrats.
Internet marketing; bilingual & multilingual web site development.
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Well for me it depends on WHO your client is, and HOW much they can afford.
BTW, nice site, but too pink.
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