I have built several websites for the company I work for, myself and friends. I have experience with it but I have never charged anyone to do this. Now I have someone who is wanting to hire me to build them a website where they can display and sell items. They own a store and want to make their items available online also. I have no idea how much to charge this person. I want to make it worth my while, but I also want it to be well within reason, as I have known this person for a long time. Any help would be appreciated.
2006-12-01 05:59:46 · 3 answers · asked by I know, I know!!!! 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
It all depends on the site features. The shopping cart alone should cost about $150 - $200. The addition of all the items will be based on how many items they have. A good rule is $5.00 per item. Then you would charge a base rate of $75 - $100 per page.
If they want a flash intro, charge $50 - $100 depending on the complexity.
A whole flash website would add a good $50 per page, but they probably don't want the entire site designed in flash. HTML is better for retail sites because it loads faster, does not require any additional software to view, such as Macromedia Flash, and it is easier to make search engines pick up all the keywords, and easier to keep the "back" button functionality. There supposedly is a way around that...but I don't know it.
So for a basic 5 page site (Home, About, Products, Cart, Contact) You would make:
$100/page = $500
+ $200/shopping cart
+ cost of the pictures
That is at least $700, which is really not bad considering custom web sites often go over $2000.
2006-12-01 06:13:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you're good, you can easily make over $50 per hour. Charge by your skill level.
2006-12-01 14:01:48 · answer #2 · answered by Evan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you are comuter literate you can go to yahoo site builder and bu
ild your site for free.I did and it worked out very nice.My site is a
e-commerce store where I sell mdse.It does not take that long either.
Hopefully this will help
2006-12-01 15:11:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋