The only 2 industries where the buyers think it's o.k to say what they are prepared to pay!!
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@Paul Murray Back in the day websites used to cost on average of around £1K so £1500 is reasonable for nowadays if you consider the evolution of websites and the web in general.
If they don't want to pay that, they can always 'build' themselves a drag and drop webshite, I mean website....
At the risk of going OT, I've been looking around at local design companies and I've been pretty surprised by the low quality of many of their sites and work.
Many of them look like they need to hire a design company themselves.
*An approach I'm trying now if a client just "needs a website" is to steer them towards Wordpress and a premium theme, and charging a flat fee to take care of the set up and guiding them through the user interface. The client gets a decent looking site that they can edit within budget, I get paid for a job I can do in an afternoon and can move onto higher paying work straight away.
The problem I partly have is I attract clients who are looking for a sole designer rather than a studio, often due to budget. This is what spurred me on to get a studio off the ground and go after bigger clients. Don't get me wrong, I make a pretty good living as a freelance designer (when clients finally pay), but that's not really what I want to do with regards to my career.
How much do you / would you charge for doing for that? I guess it is a lot cheaper than you building a site from scratch (obviously). I never really know how much do charge for that kind of 'work.'
I've seen other developers charging around £350 to £400 for something like that so I'd aim within that region. That generally covers set-up (including sorting out their web hosting and getting a database running) installing appropriate plugins, and maybe even adding in content (though you could show them how to do it and leave it with them).
If they request extra functionality or changes to code that require you to edit source or CSS, then I'd charge them a fair wack more since you're now into development time. With fixed fee jobs you should be charging a decent wedge anyway because you assume the risk of how long it will take.
Some might say that £400 to install and set-up a Wordpress theme is too much, but the client isn't paying for time, they're paying for expertise and value. The value is, they get an editable site up and running in a matter of hours at a fraction of the cost to design and develop from scratch.
I think £400 for a site that's up and running that you can manage yourself is pretty good going even compared with the DIY sites like wix when you factor the time to actually do it yourself and the fact it'd probably look shit.
I think that'd be a good service to offer.
I usually charge around £500. Too much?