I myself am used to coding PSD to HTML (normal html page, not CMS theme) so I want to offer my service at DP. However, I don't know how to choose a price that would benefit both me and the buyer Can you help me a little by showing me your creations and the price you charged to make them? Thanks in advance
I personly, start by designing it in photoshop. Then I think to myself, how could this website then be turned into a site. Well you would normaly have header,navigation,leftcolumn,rightcolumn,footer or whatever is relevent to your site. Then I just look at each part and see how that can be displayed in html, so as a div block, can it be a background image repeated on x with height 140px and width 30px. Just think how your tempalte will come together. Then I start from top to bottom creating parts of the pages in divs, then as I do each bit I will refer back to photoshop, slice the image and then save for web (normal as a gif). Once I got the image i stick it in the images folder then apply it to the template in the stylesheet. Not sure how well I have explained it but I just do it how I do. I recently made this: www.kezoon.com/1/test/. Let me know what you think.
No no, what I wanted to ask is that can you show me your creations and the price you charged to make them since I am having difficulty deciding the price
Look at the competition and go from there basically Some people offer it for $20-30, but are they any good? Is the code as clean as can be? Whats the turn around time? Best option if you're just starting out is negotiating prices with the buyer on a per design basis, hence you're not over charging for simple designs, and not selling yourself short on the more complex ones. After a while you'll get the hang of estimating prices and what to charge. If English is your first language then you can usually use this to a massive advantage when dealing on the Internet, although outsourcing to Asia is cheaper for westerners, the language difficulties may prove problematic when explaining design ideas and how they want it for instance, so if you're a native English speaker then you can deal with people a lot more effectively. If you know your coding really well too, speaking English as a first language enables you to provide excellent after care and help to your customers, and this is one of the best ways of building a new business as it keeps customers coming back to you for more, and they reccommend you via word of mouth to others, which is one of the most powerful forms of marketing
If you look at some templates selling companies sites, they sell their templates for $45-$75 each. yeah, I see some people sell them on DP for $20-$30, which is a good price I think. If the design looks bad, lower the price to $10-$15, ... I spend hours to make a good looking template for my site. So tell the price.
if you offer solid codes and reasonable turnaround time you'll be at the luxury of charging more than average since people will opt for quality codes at a price rather than broken codes at discount. it is getting to that trusted state that is more difficult, may be a good idea to offer services at a discount to build your rep.
I have done this (Link) for 15$ and this one (Link , this one has a roll-over menu) for 20$. Both of them were finished within 1 day. Do you think it was a reasonable price?
$35 for one days work? Jesuz Nobody - no matter what job they did - gets paid as low as that for a days work in the UK
yup, probably best to charge on a time rate, unless you have the ability to finish things really quickly, then just pretend it's going to take a long time and you'll rake it in But at least your getting paid something, because your code isn't as good as it could be, so with every site your getting exp. and after a year or two you could probably charge higher prices.
yup, with more experience you will be able to do things quicker. at dp forums you're not really competing with the high-end market, your direct competition would be people from third world countries offering cheap hourly rate (like data processing at 2$ per hour) so the best would be to gain some reputation, have a nice portfolio and go for the high end jobs that'll pay well. while I hire most of my coders locally, the small insignificant jobs are offered to mostly student coders for about 50$ per job while I pay about 500$ for more significant high-end projects, and to be honest the time it takes to do both jobs aren't too different. people are just willing to pay premium for projects that are important to them to get it done right.
I think you could have easily asked for more a bit if you would have made them valid XHTML without using tables. Others will guide if that was correct prices. seems to me you took a bit less than you should have. But then as other members have rightly said, everything depends on quality of design, knowledge, turn-up time expected and other factors. I personally have mentioned $50 per template as a starting point on my website.
I think that unless you got permission to use those images from the creators (or bought them with the intent to resell) then you could get in trouble for not only distributing by SELLING those templates. Those images (Maria and the cover for Saints Row) are under copyright, you are aware? I don't mean to be negative, and I am not knocking your designs, but it's the truth. If someone felt like prosecuting you over those, they very well could.
i charge 50 bux for a creative template like this one http://www.jss4ever.com And i sold 3 till now from this template with customizing for 60 bux each PSD --> HTML (CSS level 2.1) tell me ur thoughts
50$ per psd page is a fair price for this kind of job. Some people thinks this is only an "easy convert of a psd to html" thing. To "convert" a page a web designer need to recreate the design. In the first place, the design is sliced correctly from Photoshop. Then the designer recreate the whole design like a puzzle with that images but using html and css coding and not a drag and drop tool. You have to work a few hours on a complex page to make it look perfect in all the browsers.
Negotiate with the buyer how much is his budget and the amount of work. Decide according to your expertise