I need to establish my web design maintenance rate.

Just trying to figure a fair price for me and the clients.


What rates do you guys charge?

Do you charge hourly, and by the job?

Thanks

 

Depends. If you show me an example of a site you've coded, I could value it better. If you just do designing, I have little idea, but I normally charge around $70p/h for code + $60 for a design.

 

I usually do around $60 for a one page layout coded + $10 for every extra page layout.

 

it is all html nothing special, I did 7 sites that are copies of each other with different store locations. Charged $225.00 each .

Here is one of them mfgbozeman.com

Like I said nothing as far as great design, but thats what the customer wanted.

 

Not the design I was worried about, it was the quality of the code.

6 errors on HTML 4.01 Transitional

Table based, paragraphs on everything and depreciated tags such as <font>

Reeks of Dreamwearver, Frontpage or Web Expression

 

Maybe he's just starting. One thing that you probably need to fix is the Contact Us link has an extra "mailto" on it.

Keep doing your thing. We all have to start somewhere.

 

Thanks man, I just asked for help and no a bashing.

It is dreamweaver - correct spelling.

I guess everyone has to write code from scratch, or is it really taboo to use dreamweaver?

Thanks for the heads up on the contact us link

 

That's fine. If you are just starting, you are free to use Dreamweaver - but not on other people's sites.

Dreamweaver outputs what is commonly referred to as bad code. Bad code is, as the name implies - bad. Around half of Dreamweaver's sites will not work crossbrowser (and the ones that do use ttables where unnecessary), most are invalid, and all of them use bad code.

Anyone redistibuting their sites "has to". Though most don't. These people are called wannabes, or else went to college where some professor who never had anything to do with the website business taught them to use Dreamweaver.

I'm not trying to bash you, believe me - I really am trying. But the very mention of the words "dreamweaver" and "professional grade tool" makes me punch stuff (literally). And am hearing it waaay to much lately.

If you have already wasted your money on Dreamweaver, then completely forget it has a design view, and switch to code view, learn semantic, valid HTML or xHTML and then start professionally.

For security, professionalism and so you don't get spammed, I'd really recommend that you change that to a PHP file.

 

I've used Eclipse and Dreamweaver, and if you're just handcoding HTML/CSS Dreamweaver works fine (but like people mentioned, use the "View Code" method). I used Dreamweaver like that at my last 2 jobs and I currently use it at my LLC business so yes it's a fine program. Just don't substitute the WYSIWYG design view with the code view... it's a shortcut to learning HTML, but if you're serious about web design then you should learn it.

 

I do see your point blueparukia, and I am really picking on a vibe that you really don't like Reamdreaver

I will try looking at it from your point of view and see if I can provide cleaner code in the future.

What would be the holy grail of checking code for validity after I design it by hand. Does foxfire has a plugin that will verify? What should I use to detect bad syntax and the like?

Thanks for the reply... Thank you as well fusiongt.