Re: FN-FORUM: Hi all (new here)

date posted 3rd March 2008 20:18

Glad you understand that, yes, I might only want your 3 page package but
it's going to cost you more than a day's work before you even get the
content from me, and then you've got to resize that gif-for-a-logo,
spell checking the copy ... etc.

I have only ever charged by the project as then yu incorporate all
elements including simple things like travel, prep, meta tag creation etc.

I would like to hear others view as I am sure I am not the only one
working this way.

Lee Rickler
Director Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years

Darren Moore wrote:
> Hi Lee.
>
> I plan to get rid of the packages at some point. At the moment I'm
> going for Small to Medium businesses and I want to give them a rough
> outline of the prices. Every quote I've done so far has been bespoke
> and can sometimes (rarely) be less than my cheapest package. If
> someone isn't prepared to spend £600 on a fully working website then I
> don't want them as a customer.
>
> True, some work can be a few hours if it's just a design cut up but
> that's something I'm not focusing on at the moment. The basic package
> I need to beef up a bit but from previous experience with customers
> things never take a few hours. I'm including administration, meetings,
> travel and e-mail/phone communication, previews, concepts and
> maintenance after the site is live.
>
> I'm going to rework the packages page a bit to make it a bit less
> shocking. The text doesn't sit so well on it and I'll also check out
> the portfolio page.
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> On 3 Mar 2008 21:11:54 -0000, Lee Rickler [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> Hi Darren,
>>
>> One thing, (and this is not necessarily aimed at Darren in particular)
>> is that I can never work out how a company can charge for 'website
>> packages' in the way that Darren does.
>>
>> Your standard package is something that I could put together, in this
>> context, in about an hour, maybe 2 if I make the coffee in between, put
>> I would never be happy doing this as to me it's not just a case of
>> flapping a basic site together. There's no mention of SEO, marketing,
>> friendly URL's etc but for that money I would bung it in free.
>>
>> Your 'Enterprise' package includes a catalog(ue), a gallery and 25
>> pages. How do you work out 25 pages?
>>
>> As I said, I'm not picking on you, just asking questions as this is a
>> way I have never been comfortable working.
>>
>> And of course, you don't get off that lightly, that purple and green on
>> the other packages just burnt my eyes!
>> Plus, in your portfolio pages, if you click 2 or more samples the pop
>> windows overlap each other and get confused.
>>
>> 'Nice' site though.
>>
>> Lee Rickler
>> Director Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
>> Web Design and Development for over 11 years
>>
>> Darren Moore wrote:
>> > Hi all.
>> >
>> > I'm new to the mailing list and interested to see what it's all about!
>> >
>> > I'm a new freelance web developer/designer and skilled with SEO.
>> >
>> > Can anyone provide a good website to get listings of freelance
>> > projects available other than freelancer?
>> >
>> > Check out my site for more details www.firecreek.co.uk and if you have
>> > any feedback please let me know!
>> >
>>
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