Web Development
Despite the lack of frequent posts, I am still here. I just haven’t really had a huge amount to write about.
I’ve been working hard recently and it is paying off. I’ve been doing lots of driving, mainly parking quite a lot, with 3 weeks until my test, practice makes perfect and the more practice I can do the better.
I’ve also been enjoying my Rails book, so much so I bought myself another Rails book: “Rails Recipes”
I have also started work on a website for a company, currently in the planning stages, I can’t say too much, but it is just the break into web design I needed.
I can also push my own rails app forward and hopefully I will get more work from both sites.
My daytime work has been consuming a lot of my time and ruining my evenings, I get home from 9 hours of standing up building heavy fans and I don’t have much energy or motivation to do much more work in the evening.
I am getting paid for the company website mentioned above although I’m not really sure how much to charge, it is a large project (at least a month long) involving about 200 pages, I’ve been asked to spec the costs from both a dynamic site with user logins and a fixed static site. Any suggestions?
erm.. I’d love to write more but to be honest nothing much has really happened since my last post eariler this week, still playing the waiting game, making sure I pass my test and then I can carry on with sorting out my business.
I found this very cool site via a video on youtube; “StolenSnapshots” it’s a site for Zork, he has some great videos and poems so check him out!
One of my fav videos of his here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_YfgmusXRJw
I guess the only other thing I have is that Team Fortress 2 is coming out with HL2 episode 1… W00t!!
200 pages? I would charge loads, especialy if you have to fill all the pages, otherwise its just one design for all of them? Good luck with rails, this company site and driving
-Nick
Billytheradponi (Nick Barrett) on July 16, 2006 10:02 am
Wow, TF2 - they finally remembered it!
RyanC on July 17, 2006 12:38 am
200 pages! Cripes!
I guess you are definitely looking at well over £2k for that one matey!
I am currently charging about £400 for 2-3 static pages with full design, SEO etc.
Taoski on July 17, 2006 9:23 am
I used to charge 20 dollars per page, with minimum of 300 dollars per order. Ofcourse, then again, that was back a year ago and I made crap sites in return
stabani on July 18, 2006 9:03 am
ahh… feels so good to be back.
When i get a project I don’t charge per page I charge per hour. (I actually work hard though, and most of the time it comes out to 50-60 bucks per page. (make sure u charge for coffee breaks)
Daniel Swiecki on July 18, 2006 8:25 pm
yea, charge for coffee breaks and just breaks in general. Call it “design innovation and inspiration time”
stabani on July 19, 2006 12:58 pm
You guys are funny. I´m not a pro in webdesign but I´m not that bad and it seems like you guys make a bunch of money with webdesign. Maybe I should try it too.
Patrick on July 19, 2006 2:11 pm
Hey Andrew, as Daniel Swiecki said it’s not really about the number of pages, it’s the time it takes. For example if you create your own CMS to run the site then it might take you three quarters of the project time to build that, and only one quarter of the time to whack out the 200 pages. For my first corporate site I charged £100. For my second one I charged over £3k in total (for about 15 pages) and they didn’t bat an eyelid when I quoted them. Also are you going to be offering support for the site? I currently charge £650/year for support (updates, corrections, etc).
Bon on July 20, 2006 12:40 pm
Sorry that should say £350 for support (but it varies per site anyway).
Bon on July 20, 2006 12:41 pm
How is the For Pay website creating coming along, Andrew?
Dewayne Mikkelson on July 20, 2006 6:31 pm
Patrick- Web design isn’t a bad industry to have a job in, but the trick is finding a customer. Its probably mad easy for Andrew, as he has a popular blog and all, but I dont think its usually too easy to find a company who needs a website.
Dan on July 20, 2006 7:32 pm
Thanks for all your comments, I was writing a post just a min ago, but the wordpress wysiwyg editor got in a strop and I lost quite a lot of writing, everytime that happens I never want to re-write a whole post.
I’ll write it tomorrow instead.
Basically I got the contract and we have agreed to do the ruby on rails content management system, which is great.
I also got a job offer, but more news on the tomorrow.
Andrew on July 20, 2006 8:45 pm
about the WYSIWYG thing, I so completely agree. Let me know if you find a better editor, I just ended up shutting mine off.
stabani on July 21, 2006 6:54 am
I think I’m going to end up writing my own Stabani!!
I’v ben netless for the past couple days, plus I’m away this weekend, I’ll try and squeeze in a post tomorrow about whats happening at the moment.
Andrew on July 22, 2006 6:53 pm