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Mar 10.2003

Since I’m new in the web designing business (for business/client purposes), I’m wondering about all the costs that would need to be charged to the client and how.

For example: cost of the web hosting…..is it better to set that up yearly with the hosting company?

Start up fees; domain name fees; trafficing fees and last but not least….most importantly, the fees for the designing.

I have run acrossed some quotes from professional web building companies such as “$2,000-10,000 depending on size and complexity”.

Do professionals usually build/charge by that or can they also charge a flat rate per hour?

Also, are there any contracts out there for contracting services with a potential client? (that are downloadable) what are the legal guidelines for building sites and contract agreements with clients?

Alot of questions……thank you for your help!

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@DamienMar 10.2003 — Some guidelines for charging you clients.

Hosting:

A lot of designers make the mistake of choosing a cheap hosting company. Remember the hosting company you choose for your client’s site is going to reflect on you. Make sure it has a back end control panel so you can modify settings or add on e-mail accounts for your client. That it also supports JSP, PHP, PERL and has the option to add MySQL databases. By choosing a good provider at the start if saves a lot of trouble later on. If you client is going to host secure pages (like an online store) make sure you provider can supply you with an independent IP address.

This would come in at between 100 – 200 a year. (yearly is best, so when you contact your client for hosting and domain renewal, you might get a few updates aswell)

Domain Name:

Let you client choose that, but you register it for them. (very cheap from $9 – $35)

Site Design:

My suggestion is to charge by the project. If you charge by the hour, some people become suspicious, don’t charge by the page because some of your clients will tell you that you can get volumes on to one page.

Decide what scripts you are going to use for your client, there’s plenty of free ones out there but if your looking for some commercial scripts have a look at www.upoint.net

Then decide how much time and effort is going to go into the site, you may also have to pay somebody to design a graphic / logo or you may have to pay somebody to help you with a difficult script.

After you have done all that then put a price on it and send your client a written quote outlining and itemising what you are going to do for them.

When your progressing through the development of the site put something online so they can see the progress as well.

Lastly, don’t be afraid to charge, if you put a couple of weeks work into a site, then you should be charging a couple of grand. But do a good job because that site becomes part of your own portfolio.
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@newbie2003authorMar 11.2003 — WOW! Thank you so much for all that info! That helps a bunch?
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