Think I remember some of these books - but it was a while ago...
Anyway, I am guessing that the people maybe talking about "solid
development time" - if you ask a Flash developer how long they took to
build something, they will probably only remember the nice stuff, like
doing Flash and discount all the other cr** as management / marketing
departments stuff :) Maybe they will even skip the graphics side of
things. Anyway, these are all nicely rounded numbers, so I would be
dubious of their accuracy anyway/..
Glen
Paul Andrews wrote:
Gosh, tumbleweed!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Andrews" <[email protected]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:43 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Taschen Icons - Web Design: Flashfolios
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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