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05-10-2003, 08:04 PM #1Disabled
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how much ?
Hi all,
I want to ask you guys that how much do you guy usually charge for doing a logo or either a website for one company as a professional ? ....
thanks
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05-10-2003, 08:24 PM #2Web Hosting Evangelist
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Logo - $8-$20
Website - $40-$100AIM: AtonexCOM
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05-10-2003, 08:29 PM #3Evenly Divided
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$40 - $100? You're not serious are you?
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05-10-2003, 08:33 PM #4Web Hosting Guru
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depends really on what you want done on a website.
some may just want html, design, one poll and thats that. others may want techincal stuff and so so asking that sort of question wont get you a precise answer.
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05-10-2003, 08:34 PM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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I am very serious..
AIM: AtonexCOM
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05-10-2003, 08:45 PM #6Evenly Divided
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Just always keep this in mind, most designers don't know "how" to design to be honest with you.
I'd bet more than 50% of the designers on this board are people under the age of 18, no professional training and likely live at home. Becuase of all these things, you'll witness ubelievable quotes for things such as webdesign.
I'd love to hear how you jam pack the below into $100!
1. Initial design meeting (via phone, conference room, email)
2. Company research and content gathering
3. Gantt chart layout and schedule design
4. Initial Mockups
5. Client input via and design meeting
6. Usually mockup modifications
7. Yet another meeting
8. Basic template design
9. Browser and system testing the template
10. Content implementation
11. Client input at a certain stage
12. Always client changes to content, etc
13. The CREATION (not using freeware) of polls, etc
14. Usability testing with customers of the company
I'll stop there because I've already missed some important points and I think you kind of get the point. Although a site may look beautiful doesn't mean it's "designed" correctly.
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05-10-2003, 08:55 PM #7WHT Addict
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We've done website designs for $2,500 before and had one that was spec'd at $12,000, which fell through when the FTC shut the company down. (heh hehe long story -- let's just say it involved magnetic matresses !! heheh!)
Most sites we do now are in the $200-$800 range though. We've got one next week that the customer has a $2,000 budget for and said they have to spend every dime of it or it goes to waste, so you bet we'll come up with $2,000 worth of features.
Our design process has over 25 steps, including gantt charts, market research, at least 4 face to face meetings, as well as testing by a group of 10 beta testers using just about every browser/OS configuration used today.
Most of our clients don't take advantage of our complete design packages; some don't want the extensive beta testing, so we don't charge for it -- of course, we don't test any other browsers except Netscape and IE...
I agree so much with Mekhu... just because it's pretty doesn't mean it's done correctly, UNLESS that's what the customer wanted. We have a handful of clients that just don't care. They want pretty .. they want flashy .. they want "cool." They are not interested in our mockups, our meetings, our "design process." They write a check, hand us a company brochure, and say contact us when it's done. Sometimes I wish we had more of this kind of client -- we make more money with them.
AaronEverSpeed.net
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05-10-2003, 09:03 PM #8Evenly Divided
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xWho, extremely well put.
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05-10-2003, 09:12 PM #9Web Hosting Evangelist
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I agree with Mekhu & xWHo
But i have to add that this still is wht. Peoples don't want the whole list (that IS needed irl meetings) what 99% of the peeps asking for a design here want is:
- Cool / Flashy
- As cheap as possible
- Done within a week and often even a day
That's why i usually don't do custom webdesings here. If iam bored or need some paypal money, i create a templete and sell it here. Logo's and graphics i like doing here.
Btw iam 23 yrs old in my final year of multimedia design. Afther this iam gonne study DTP+ and animation and follow a photographers and 3d animation course.
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05-10-2003, 09:22 PM #10Evenly Divided
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ic3d, completely agree regarding the WHT comment. If Axi meant $40 to $100 for a template, then I'd have to agree!
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05-11-2003, 03:22 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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Another person agreeing with Jeff. It really depends on what (and who) you are targeting. If you want to sell to the WHT Audience, your going to have to do a sub-$100 price, and that's not even worth your time. On the other end of the market, are companies like PixelBrick who charge in the $20,000 plus range, but take a FAR bigger part in the project then just slapping something together in photoshop.
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