The most we have charged for a website (using current exchange rates) is $12,000. Our average charge would be circa $4,000. As a project manager the largest budget for a website was $24m and that was just for a change not a new build.
made one for a local lawyer for $3700...he went to jail two months later and site was gone a little after that...lol
The most I ever got paid for building a website was $400, but all the time and work that I spent into it it probably amounted a regular paid low salary job. Now if you're good and quick on the other hand that's a different story
The most I have ever been paid for a website is £2000($4000approx), but this was for a large multi national architectural firm. When I look back at the website now it isn't exactly ground braking..
The most I have paid to have a website built was $1500, which is fine because the web designer is behind the project 100% and has agreed to stay on for the long haul, so the investment has paid off.
No reason why you cannot build up to it as long as you can put the hours in and make people believe (without miss leading them) that you are established and do this 100% of your time. Most our clients are in the USA so the market is there you just need to ensure you are competing in the right space. If you are going to bid on sites like this where there is a high proportion of both young business people with shoe string budgets and a large number of developers from countries with massively lower costs of living then you arent going to be getting that value of business. You need to find a potential source of clients who are older/ have more realistic budgets, where there is less overseas developers or where people are willing to pay more for the ability to pick up the phone and speak to someone who has the same first language, is in the same country/ timezone etc. After that it is a case of working up - the defining moment for me to leave the world of the employed and set up Astaroth Solutions with my colleagues (who had been asking me to do it for years) was when my employers paid just over $30,000 for a very basic 5 page mini site with no functionality and to match the look and feel of the existing main site. The money is there, you just need to be able to market yourselves properly
I got 89K for a full web based application which included a web page, then another 15K in modifications. I also added a new skin and sold it to their competitors for only 25K a few months later... because im sneeky. I was only 19 at the time, and was working by myself so I got it all to myself mwahahaha That is so true, companies with like 4-15 staff often have no / shit sites and more money than sense.
I wouldnt say they have more money than sense but that they are risk adverse and are willing to pay more to get what they believe will not necessarily a "better" product but one that mitigates the risks - eg one issue with hiring a one man band is what happens if your site goes down on the first day of their two week annual holiday? With a company you have the backup that there are naturally others in the team that can pick it up and fix it and they should have standard processes/ methodologies and so can pick it up quickly compared to having to hire another freelancer who will have to spend time learning how the program has been put together.
I paid a total of about $6,000 for a website design and forum skin to be developed, but that is because I got hosed twice before finding someone that did the job properly and didn't abandon the project in midstream. I think someone said it earlier... you get what you pay for. In my day job, I'm a project manager for a large global IT services company and we've been paid many millions of dollars to build websites for clients. Those sites, however are totally automated and integrated with their business systems. It always amazes me that there is such a gap between the large projects and the small projects, when often the user who is visiting the site wouldn't know the difference. Some of the multi-million dollar sites I've managed looked very simple to the user, but there was a lot going on behind the scenes.
It is not that difficult to get high payout for creating a website / web application, but you must appear (at least appear...) solid in what you do and how you work. The difference between what I see here and what you can sell 'on the street' is enormous; on DP and Sitepoint I often see sites being sold for a few $1000 which I would charge a client > $100k for. But he; on the other hand that is the fun of this; I bought a few sites and changed them a bit and sold them via 'personal channels' for many times the amount. Simply because the competition is more expensive if you don't search too hard (and clients don't want to; they are lazy as well...). But highest I did as a one-man-shop was in 2000 and was Euro 89k for a site; it took me 3 months to complete and I have never been so stressed in my life. Ofcourse you have a year to rest after that, but I won't be doing that again
I got $12000 for building a political website.he he..it's really good. But, my quality is based on the client's budget. Hence, everybody cld afford to get their websites base on their budget.
I made $8000 on a website for a frozen food company and the site never even got used. Right when I finished the site, a MAJOR food company. bought out the company and incorporated the product into their main site. I have the site I built on my portfolio site and for the last 5 or 6 years I've ranked #1 in google for the company/product name, even above the MAJOR food company.