Could *I* charge $450!?

$450 dollars to build sites!? I might have ago at charging for that... What are my chances? :o) http://www.borotec.co.uk

As you know there are many web page building applications out on the market. Building a simple web page is as easy as cut and past, drag and drop, clicking a button, ect.. If the complete idiot can't build a web page then they don't deserve to live it's so simple. However, since the general public gets scared easy when big words are used... You can charge "ANYTHING" you want to build a web page. $450.00 is the most I've seen but I bet there are many people that will pay it without a second thought. shoot, I just talked to a person that's building a sight for a small company here. She's charging $100.00 per page. That ain't bad. The bad thing is that she just picked up her first web building application (ms publisher) and is using that only because she thinks it's the only one on the market. You should charge $400.00 and take their customers away from them :-) Mike Barlow > $450 dollars to build sites!? I might have ago at charging for that... > What are my chances? :o) > http://www.borotec.co.uk -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? MikeBa on the TEN network. Member of R.O.R. 1999 http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music mikeba.vcf < 1K Download

my sisers work just paid some guy $5000 for their website. Go figure

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> As you know there are many web page building applications out on the > market. Building a simple web page is as easy as cut and past, drag and > drop, clicking a button, ect.. If the complete idiot can't build a web > page then they don't deserve to live it's so simple. > However, since the general public gets scared easy when big words are > used... You can charge "ANYTHING" you want to build a web page. > $450.00 is the most I've seen but I bet there are many people that > will pay it without a second thought. shoot, I just talked to a person > that's building a sight for a small company here. She's charging $100.00 > per page. That ain't bad. The bad thing is that she just picked up her > first web building application (ms publisher) and is using that only > because she thinks it's the only one on the market. > You should charge $400.00 and take their customers away from them :-) > Mike Barlow > > $450 dollars to build sites!? I might have ago at charging for that... > > What are my chances? :o) > > http://www.borotec.co.uk > -- > ========================================= > Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? > MikeBa on the TEN network. > Member of R.O.R. 1999 > http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html > ========================================= > Racing online with the help of...... > Race Communications Association > http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html > Holodyne Engineering > Mystic Music

Just about 4 years ago while I was in college I got a job answering the phones at an isp. Because we were an isp some people wanted web pages. I borrowed a book on HTML, did a little page, showed my boss that I could write web pages, and whammo, I was the company web programmer. They charged $40/hr for my work, though of course I didn't get very much of that. I remember one guy who wanted to sell children's books online... after I finished his page, he came in to look at it. I sat him in front of the computer and he was having some trouble.. turns out he didn't know how to use a mouse! One after another, customers would start calling and asking why their sites weren't making money. They thought if they just made a page they would get rich. To give an example, one guy was selling a compilation of stories about his childhood until he decided to revamp the site and sell magnets guaranteed to cure any disease. Before long I got disallusioned with the 'gouging for web services' business and got another job doing something else. I didn't think this stuff was still possible, though... rob. >$450 dollars to build sites!? I might have ago at charging for that... >What are my chances? :o) >http://www.borotec.co.uk

All my friends here have crappy little jobs behind the till at McDonalds or Sainsburys or whatever (I'm only 17 remember!)..... But I couldn't be bothered with that so I do web design for small companies around here. At the moment it's just for people I know and on recommendations but at around 40 - $60 a page I'm earning more than enough to get by (i.e ten times more than my friends <G>) I was introduced to HTML in mid-1997 and hand-code most of it myself so I'm not exactly one of the people you mentioned who try to work their way through a frontpage wizard...! Especially since now I'm working with Java, CGI and ASP's. Actually it's going very well - Soon I'm setting up a registered company and getting my own domain (Did you notice the original poster called itself a "Very Large Company" and still didn't have its own domain?) I'd like to run it full-time but of course I've got to do well in school first. At the moment I have barely enough time for it because of school and sport and that little thing called a social life :-) -- Cheers! Graeme Nash http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk ICQ# 11257824 1998 Xoom GP2 League Champion

Thanks for the manifesto, Graeme, but the discrepency here is "webpage" and "website". I've heard of companies forking up $4000 for a complete website, meaning servers, cgi, POP accounts, and the web content. Usually, for a set of "webpages" companies will go in the range of $400 to $1000, depending on the savyness of the web "developer"... The real smart ones charge by the hour, then you can really ring it up. Gary P.S. the data in this post reflects my own experience, please done post a ton of single line examples of people cherging different amounts. this is kind of off topic anyway.

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> >The bad thing is that she just picked up her > >first web building application (ms publisher) and is using that only > >because she thinks it's the only one on the market. > All my friends here have crappy little jobs behind the till at McDonalds > or Sainsburys or whatever (I'm only 17 remember!)..... > But I couldn't be bothered with that so I do web design for small > companies around here. At the moment it's just for people I know and on > recommendations but at around 40 - $60 a page I'm earning more than > enough to get by (i.e ten times more than my friends <G>) I was > introduced to HTML in mid-1997 and hand-code most of it myself so I'm > not exactly one of the people you mentioned who try to work their way > through a frontpage wizard...! Especially since now I'm working with > Java, CGI and ASP's. > Actually it's going very well - Soon I'm setting up a registered company > and getting my own domain (Did you notice the original poster called > itself a "Very Large Company" and still didn't have its own domain?) > I'd like to run it full-time but of course I've got to do well in school > first. At the moment I have barely enough time for it because of school > and sport and that little thing called a social life :-) > -- > Cheers! > Graeme Nash > http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk > ICQ# 11257824 > 1998 Xoom GP2 League Champion

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>>$450 dollars to build sites!? I might have ago at charging for that... >>What are my chances? :o) >For that much, you should plan on including at least one *** with the >web page... Subtle as ever John! Cheers Tony