For $150+ per hour, you would get security analysis, usability analysis, browser testing, performance analysis and testing, adherence to standards, project management, scalability and maintainability. Perhaps even return on investment (ROI) estimates. The time frame will be a lot longer than the $10 hour work, but you won't have any problems tracking someone down to fix bugs and it will encompass things the client hadn't thought of.
Just a motorcycle club? If it's just some graphics and a discussion area, that's not too hard. There is a bunch of open source forum software available. Is there going to be a mailing list? Now that's including membership and people's personal information. You need to take security into account, especially SQL insertion, cross-site scripting, the hosted OS, etc.
Prices charged can be all over the place based on the talent of the person(s) doing the work. You may choke if someone said they would come up with a tag line for your company for only $20,000. That's not even a website, but a one line sentence. But that's about what HBO paid for "It's not TV, it's HBO.". In hindsight, $20k was pretty cheap.
So, what you charge depends on your talent and what needs to be done. $20-$50 per hour is probably the most common range for someone who doesn't really do this professionally, but knows they can do a decent job. You can come up a project price based on your hourly rate.
Bottom line, there really is no answer. I used to charge $75 per hour when I did consulting during the dot com era and my clients were telling me I was charging them too little. Some even saying I should double my rate.
On Apr 3, 2005, at 6:51 PM, -{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote:Hi gang
Sorry for asking this question here, but I don't know where else to ask. And Goole'ing didn't help me much.
My father-in-law has a friend in Alaska (and I'm in Canada) that needs a website done. Not sure what kinda site he wants done yet, or how much he needs me to do for him (like webspace, domain hosting, domain registration, and such) but for now I've been asked what it'd cost to get it done.
I'm assuming it's something pretty simple, since it's just for a motorcycle club, but he wants a price first ...
What do y'all charge when you do sites for people ??? ... In the past I've only done pro-bono work (because they usually don't require much work, so it's not a problem getting it done while working on other projects), but I've never actually done paid work before... It's more that I just recently moved to Canada (from Denmark) so I have no feeling with what the prices and rates are overhere ...
TIA
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