http://www.stride-online.com What do you think is the right price to charge customer for creating a website like the one above. Features: Several static information pages. Online showroom. Administrator can add/edit/delete items in the showroom using the Admin Control Panel. Shopping cart (customers' orders are sent to admin by email). Below is the image of the Admin Control Panel. If you need more details, please let me know, thanks.
depends on the purpose and willingness of the user ur selling to! remember there are so many free alternatives with many such features. Dont think anyone knowing the scene would pay more than $50 though. Especially if they are willing to use joomla etc
For real? 50$? That's ridiculous. 50$ is worth 5-8 hours of my work. There is no way you can make a site like this one in that amount of time. At least I don't know of such a way.
If you have taken note of the number of hours you've spent on the project, you're half way to finding out the price for your work. The next thing you need to know is how much you would be charging per hour. For exemple, if you worked 8 hours and you charge, lets say 16$/hour, you should charge 128$. That's a pretty basic way for billing, the alternative would be to calculate the approximate ammount of time you've spent on it and had some more variables like code-reusability and complexity. Make an approximate and set a pricing list for the different products you are going to create in the future. Lets say ths code took 8 hours, at 16$/hour it's complexity was mild (nothing new learned to create it, but demanded a relative effort) and it can be re-used with minor twitches. So, around 100-125$ Hope it helped
It depends on how many of these sites you're selling. I sell a script that took me about 3 weeks to complete for $49.95. That price would be insane if I were to sell one copy but I have sold hundreds of them at that price. You have to take into account what people are willing to pay and how many you think you can sell. If this is a custom job and this is the only one you'll be doing then you will have to charge hourly.
If its commercial and for one customer, everything over 200 USD is too much. On the other hand, as Fervid said, if it is a script then it should be priced much lower. Judging by your opening post, I would go with a first answer.
looks to me like there would be quite a bit involved, a front end site for customers and then an admin site where things can be changed/uploaded - will require Database to store the content etc....would take a good few weeks to get it all right. 500 USD and upwards I'd be looking at
I'd try to use a WordPress CMS (for aesthetics, themes, plugins and better search functionalities) ...it's easier, faster and you can charge more ...PM me if you want to partner up, resell our web development/search marketing services -- automate the tasks and focus on selling more.
Just you need to estimate on you depending on your skill and power to do Many will code 100 lines for a solution some 40 lines for the same solution that's their talent! Which category you're and charge?
I would go 1200-1500 - that looks like a custom CMS with all custom styling... which is probably 60 hrs (about 2 weeks of work give or take a day or 2). It is probably a wordpress or standard blog software, with product management cms addon (custom made) so I wouldn't bid too low or it'll bit yah in the bum!
Thanks you guys for all the advice. I think I gave a quote a bit too fast. I named 500$. Btw the site was going to be custom-built and no CMS would have been involved. Well my bid was too high and the client never replied. Btw I just recently read an article which suggests to let customer name the price himself and you will accept whatever price they name - in many cases client will pay very generously (author claims), so I will try that next time. Thanks once again.
If you are doing the work outsourced, maybe $100. If you are working with the end-owner of the website, charge what you can get and no less. It starts with getting an idea of how much the client is willing to spend, get them to spend as much as possible, and then knock it out of the park with quality work. Don't listen to what people say on DP, part of being a designer is having a sense for business, and that means get as much $$$ as possible without ripping people off. Work good, eat good.
if the site is build around a platform like wordpress, i could do that in an hour or 2, but if its a custom build css with proper logo design a unique layout and colours then you could charge $300-$500 for it, as long its good and the customer likes it. I am looking for a custom theme for my site but cant afford it yet, but as soon as i can it is one of the first things on my list of improvements
Whoever said that just mentioned one side! Well there are several clients who think that a programmer who asks for the quote is not confident and experienced enough in the field. What might be a better idea is to offer a sample based on the price range so you get an idea of what he thinks. But thats what i think! A general understanding is that custom code does cost more but most cases people can get away with a commercial product being modified a little. And commercial products can price their products much lower! They get so many customers and so dont have to think about hours of work unlike ones who need to code custom stuff from scratch and cant resell it. So it depends on whether the client is willing to take a modified version of an available product or needs something totally new!
it depends on you what time and efforts you spend on it and the language is also the important factor if you design it in .net then its cost is more