I need to know roughly what people charge for web design by the hour. I'm going to be working on a company's site and I don't know how much to charge.

Thanks

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Dear DannyITR

Hard to say.. Normally we charge per project, not by hour and if, it depends how long your in business and how good you are.

With this 5 points, I normally calculate how much a Design will coast. Take a look at my sites www.artmotion.biz (http://www.artmotion.biz) u will see a price example

The 5 points are:

- quality
- how many sites
- how many example sites you are going to create
- only design, or with programming
- Support, update

This is my way of doing this, I am sure you find 1000 of different ways how to calculate a project... Feel free to add anything in this post about this..

Quality is on of the Impotent points in Webdesign... If u need to save money on a project, don't save it on the Quality. With quality I mean, how good the sites looks and how many “example site” u`r creating for your customer.

Lets say if u get 500 US Dollars for a site, you probably are not willing to spend 10 Hours on making 3 different example sites for u`r customers, do du ?

Personally I believes that a design for 300.- cant be that good as a professional sites design
On of the best webdesign business is pixelbrick.com. You maybe pay 5000 Us dollars for a site at pixelbrick, but u get for what u pay. ( By the way, I like to work there some time :cool: )


I hope this helps
Best Regards from switzerland
Matt

I believe charging per job would be more feasible, but as I said, thats just my opinion. :)

Originally posted by TopDog21
I believe charging per job would be more feasible Sure, but the best way to do that is to estimate how many hours the job will take, and multiply it by an hourly rate.

Or more than one hourly rate. We use a different rate for different phases of the project; for example time spent in "discovery" (essentially conferring with the client about their needs) may be at a different rate than time spent coding; and coding html is less than coding, say, PHP. Estimate how much time is going to be spent on each task (including managing the project) and and give each a rate. Of course, some or all of those tasks could be at the same rate.

Then total the numbers and that's the project price. That way you don't quibble with the client over each hour, but you have a time budget yourself. Obviously this is less important if you're one person doing all the work, but still helpful (unless you don't want to know how much you're making per hour).

Discovery, by the way, means not having to do what matt_01 was talking about; creating "example sites." There may be a couple of one- or two-page Photoshop mockups, but generally by the time something's actually done in html the look and feel of the site has been finalized.

I agree with JayC

But what I sad; thats my opinion