going rate for a website...help ASAP

Anon

I am a web-programmer, but I don't actually get to see the money cross the counter. What is the going rate for a nice professional website with about 6 pages? If I need to be more specific let me know...I just want a round about price. thanx

Anon

well, i've had the same problem when i started professionally creating pages for my customers.

first thing:
you can't go by the number of pages, its not important if there are 3 or 10, you have to create a concept and the graphic framework for the page, the rest is often only text and some small images.

second thing:
i make my prices "by face" 😉 so if there is a small organisation and i have time to do their page and perhaps can tryout some new coding methods, i dont want to have as much money as i would want from a company i do a normal business representation site for.

third thing:
how much sites have you done yet ? if you want your customers to recommend you to their partners, do a good work for a good price and you will perhaps get more money from your next larger customers. always keep
your "career" in mind.

so, if you've done just static html pages with nice graphics for one website and have no reputation yet, i'd say $250-500 is a fitting price for a small professional website.

any other opinions ? id like to discuss prices for webdesign and -programming if there is interest from other people.
sebbi

Anon

I have only been doing this for about a year now. I am 21, and I like to think I am a pretty good web programmer/designer. Most of my sites have been written in PHP and HTML of course. The guy that is asking me is basically curious what the cost would be for me to build it for him and the cost from a professional company. How much do professional companies charge? roundabout of course for your average site (just an average price, like if you had to charge the same price for every site you create...in the end you would have the exact same money you would have it you charged more for complicated sites, and less for easy sites--this is the price I am looking for) thanx again.

bastien

Some of the other dependant factors are, how much scriting is there? Are the pages fairly static or is there a lot o action going on? Do they require DB interactivity? user tracking? Who designs the DB and develops the data model? Which DB? What language 7 platform? Do you get to choose or do they?

Once you get into DBs the prices tend to take a dramatic jump. Coding a site with little interactivity anyone with Dreamweaver or FP can do quite easily, but a DB takes some skill.

I generally charge around $1000 for a DB site, depending on the amount of action that needs to take place, ie fully dymanic menus total DB driven data sites, etc.

Bastien

Anon

The professional design firm I work with charges around $3000/site when it's completely static and straightforward, and over $10,000 when databases and ecommerce are involved. When I did some independent work I charged around $3000 for a fully database driven site.

siwis

Something nobady has yet mentioned is that any price should reflect the value any site will deliver to its owner.

Never undervalue your own time, set yourself a realistic hourly rate, analise the task in hand including your estimated time for each element of the application (time cost every element individually) then tot up the total time to complete. Add at least 20-25% to that time and that should be your starting point price wise.

If when you look at that price you can't justify the amount against a realistic projection of what the client should expect to gain within a 6 month period, consider (very carefully) revising the figure downwards slightly (remember you built in 25% to start with!)
If on the other hand your figure appears unrealistically low, you will not be doing yourself any favours either. To project a professional image you need to strike a sensible balance of professional charging versus value for money. If your work is good enough, and you aren't trying to charge mega bucks, you should find that most clients are willing to pay a reasnable fee for your services.

Just remember one thing. Its a waste of your time and skills to become a busy poor fool. The world is awash with mickey mouse web designers/programmers charging mickey mouse prices and delivering mickey mouse websites. If you are too cheap you just become another mickey mouse.

But to answer your initial question.... 6 pages.... £250 ($350) for the design (basic) plus £50 ($65) PER page (50% extra for a form page).
That would assume that ALL text/images are supplied in electronic format and that all images are "ready" apart from resizing.

That would involve NO database work or other interactivity.

Anon

Just for the Discussion:

the german designmagazine PAGE had had a list of Webdesignfees in one of their last issues: (daily rates)

Concept: 1000$
Graphics: 350$
HTML/JavaScript: 200$

They said nothing about PHP/DB-Interaction, cause this just cant be commonly estimated.