Pedro Kostelec wrote:
As we are talking about money.What would be the price of a very simple but acceptable web page? And how long does it take to the "pros" to create one?

Step 1:
Determine your hourly rate. This may be a flat rate, or you may skew the rate depending on the type of client [for example: corporate clients tend to have more dosh and expect higher rates than poor artists]

Step 2:
Determine what you need to build/do, broken down as finely as possible into smaller sub-tasks. Ask many questions so that you have a very clear idea of what they want; give all the options, make this process transparent. Preferably you can break down your tasks into steps that are 30min or less per step [so that you know you are accurate in your estimates]

Step 3:
Multiply these two together.

Step 4:
Pad this estimate based on how coarse or fine you were in step 2. Padding is for me, generally anywhere between 10% and 100%; really it all depends on how confident you are on your estimates and on how clear things are at the start of the project.

Step 5:
Compare this estimate to the clients budget. Most clients won't tell you upfront their budget, so you will have to negotiate a price. Final price might be higher than your step 4, but generally it's lower. That's the 'art' of it.
;)

It's not a simple 'websites cost this' quote. Though you could say 'very simple' websites probably range between 100$ and 1,500$ -- but that is also not saying anything. And there are other factors like:

Design times can vary greatly, you can use a pre-made template, or you can fine-craft one that takes you three days to make - sometimes you want it to be done quickly, but the client keeps requesting changes... it's quite the dance sometimes.

Templates: how easy it is for the client to edit it themselves? Is it all static HTML thrown together from images? Or is it all flash+xml based with SEO, statistics and template driven? The later can make a very simple page suddenly far more time consuming with no apparent change in the front-end/user experience.

Experience will answer these questions.

Good luck,

Sebastian.
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