I have the Taschen Icons - Web Design: Flashfolios book. very nice it is
too.
For those of us on the list that have this book (there must be a few), I'm
curious about the "cost" estimates that are sometimes given.
It can be a bit difficullt to estimate the complexity of a given site -
particularly if the design has changed since the book was published, but in
several cases I've considered the costing given to some sites as being way
too low - p74 www.dita-legends.com has a cost estimate of 50 hours! (note it
looks like the design and url has changed since the book was published).
http://www.sergedemarre.be/ (p158) has a cost of 80 hours.
Anyway, I won't go on - there are many sites with a cost of 120 hours or so
and naturally several with very long times.
I suspect that some of these estimates are plucked from the air and if I
take 80 hours, that would imply two man-weeks.
My experience (particularly with corporates) is that huge amounts of time
can be taken up with meetings and reworking of graphics and themes and
several people can be involved - designer, developer, account manager, ..etc
. Even in a small agency you might expect that 80 hours to be split between
design and development, so 80 hours seems really tight to me and even 120
hours seems unlikely for a sophisticated client with a lot of assets to be
designed and approved.
I once worked on a corporate project (not flash) where 120 hours wouldn't
have been enough for the meetings about the proposed development, let alone
making it!
If you have the book, please let me know what you think of those costings!
Paul
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