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30. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Apr 14, 2008 1:40 PM

in response to: MedlineRecrui

I paid my guy by an invoice total which was broken out into hours worked.

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Mar 21, 2008

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31. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? May 14, 2008 10:59 AM

I specialize in low cost, simple web design that is effective. Check out my site at:

http://www.rlcwebdesign.net

Good luck.

Robby

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LEX_08 14 posts since
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32. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 11, 2008 1:21 PM

in response to: intechspecial

I love your site....I have submited a request for service

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May 28, 2008

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33. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 11, 2008 6:49 PM

There is a growing number of outfits that will build and host your website for free, or close to free.
If you sign up with a provider that uses a Content Management System to allow you to add content yourself (through, for example, a web interface) they can, as part of the agreement, add a single link at the bottom of each page from your website to, for example, their website or that of a sponsor.
Because inbound links add value to the site they link to, this can offset the cost, and indeed be profitable, for the provider, allowing them to host your website "for free".
I have done this for one or two sites through www.foreverup.com.

I think it is only a matter of time before "free website + free hosting" is the standard, at least for basic businesses with simple website needs.

My 2 cents' worth.
Liam
Author of Web Traffic Magnet.
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rh1000 12 posts since
Sep 12, 2008

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34. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 12, 2008 3:50 AM

In 95% of the time you do not pay by the hour. You would pay a certain fee for the home page then an addtional $100.00 dollars each for additional pages. I have a soild source thats very professional and you would be very proud of the work they would do for you. It would cost less then $3,000.00 dollars. Remember you pay for what you get. To help suport the growth of your business you want it to look good I want nothing in return for giving you the source you need to help you get what you need thanks and God Bless and continued success.

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your_web_guy 68 posts since
Aug 4, 2008

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35. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 12, 2008 4:53 AM

in response to: rh1000

holy crap! Three Grand?!?! The only time that is an acceptable number is if you are getting a completely customized ecommerce site with a custom script that will do various things to your person if you enter the right codes.

Keep it simple... a flat rate for a web site. Period. I cannot stand this per page pricing, it only encourages clients to put too much information on each page to keep costs down. Remember that for every page you have on your website you have an additional chance to get into search results.

I do agree that you get what you pay for, but that just means you need to do your homework before you sign up with anyone. The bottom of the price (and quality) list is the GoDaddy homesite tonight service where its (barely) guided do it yourself. The top of the list is a high dollar design studio that can do everything you need them to do without much guidence from you and it is all completely custom.

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My company is right in the middle... we do everything you need done from SEO to Domain Registration to Hosting to Maintenance to Scripting, but it is not 100% custom. We employ a template company to make the basic design then we customize it for the clients specific needs. We do not write scripts from scratch, but we can modify very powerful scripts to do exactly what you need them to do. Scripts like oscommerce, wordpress, and even php nuke (although i prefer wordpress as a cms to phpnuke).

My advice... dont get caught up in the "templates are bad" debate. They can be bad, dont get me wrong... but they can also be friggin awsome in the right hands. Budget about a grand for the initial set up stage and then get a decent host (if your designer/scripter doesnt do it) because even though $10 a month sounds good at first, if your seo is good you will be paying out the wazoo for bandwidth overages within a year of going live. I highly suggest you keep your site with your designer if they do hosting... all the time i see really well made sites get butchered by laymen who didnt set it up originally when they are making updates to the site. What we do is alway host the site after the initial design is complete. Our name is at the bottom and if i cannot vouch for the updates then i dont want my companies name on it.

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Sep 12, 2008

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36. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 12, 2008 8:40 AM

in response to: BDS INC

I saw your post, I am looking for a website designer. Can you forward me some websites, so that I can see thier work.

Thanks,

blankpage

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Sep 12, 2008

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37. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 12, 2008 9:17 AM

Hi,

Inconcern with your posting. I can offer you a fully functional website for just one dollar a day. No web master needed. And anyone can use this product. I am a rep from Power Pro Sites and there are no contracts.
Interested? Feel Free to contact me at 941 524 2318.

Thank you

Walt

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Sep 12, 2008

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38. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 12, 2008 9:19 AM

in response to: blankpage

I can offer you a website cutomized for you for one dollar a day. No contracts and everything is unlimited
interested call me

941 524 2318

thanks

walt

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Sep 21, 2008

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39. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 21, 2008 4:59 PM

I have read your question carefully. I think that should go for free
lancer. as they are expert in the field and you can set you budget so
that it will not be costly for you. If wish i can design website for
you, just reply me.
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bigcloudmedia 50 posts since
Aug 22, 2008

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40. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 21, 2008 6:02 PM

Good day.

I am the owner of Big Cloud Media, a webdesign company in San Antonio TX, and we charge by the hour, but that being said our structure is a tad different.

We included all of our services under one hourly charge instead of splitting it up into: this amount for design, this amount per page, this amount per picture, this amount for flash work, etc.

The amount of content on the pages and the type of content determines how many pages we can do per hour. Thus the type of content, amount of content and the amount of pages determines the overall price of the site. We sit down with our clients and draw out what they want and then make an estimate based off of that.

Overall, I would say keep a price in your head that you don't want to go above and see what the designer can do with it. The end price is what matters in the end, regardless of whether it is by the hour or by the project, and if you know your ceiling amount, then you won't get into trouble later on.

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bigcloudmedia 50 posts since
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41. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 21, 2008 6:07 PM

in response to: blankpage

Good day and thanks for posting.

My name is Koji Flowers and I am the owner of Big Cloud Media, a San Antonio, TX, based web-design company. We specialize in websites for businesses, large or small.

You can find my work at www.bigcloudmedia.com and you can contact me via email at kflowers@bigcloudmedia.com or by phone at 210-373-7352.

I would like to talk to you more about what you want your website to do for you and what web-based services we can offer you.

Thanks and have a great day.

Koji

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Henrykjr 6 posts since
Sep 18, 2008

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42. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Sep 21, 2008 8:30 PM

I am in the process launch one of my latest websites. I purchased off the shelf website software that is being cut and modified by web developers. This is now my sixth running website business. I have to tell you that if you are not familiar with building websites and don't know the in's and outs of what you want paying a lump summ to get your website up and running will often leave you with additional development costs as you thought process on how you want your website to run evolves.

Also paying by the hour is also somewhat loaded. If you are not 100% crystal clear on what you want done, your website costs will spiral out of control.

As a rule of thumb, that what you had budgeted for a realistic, well working website and double it to get what you ideally want. I know this sounds kina dumb but it's really not.

Here are some pointers on how to get what you want:

1. Spend as much time as you need writing a business plan
2. Spend weeks researching your competition and how thier website functions, log all the good points and throw out the bad.
3. Incorporate this new information into your business plan.
4. Take adequate time to whiteboard how your website will work and record how your website is navigated.
5. Take a day to read about how ecommerce works, open a google ad words account, and learn something about SEO
6. Take adequate time to document all the specifications on the website (Most important)
7. Pick a look and feel from a website like templatemonster.com
8. See what off the shelf software is available that you can buy and modify. The first site I built from scratch cost me around $135K to build
9. Interview at least 5 web dev firms.
10. Sign contracts based on your written specifications.
11. Split the cost of the website over 3 payments with the last payment being made 10 days after you have debugged the site.

Hope this helps

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leolazarus 17 posts since
Oct 21, 2008

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43. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Nov 2, 2008 7:57 PM

in response to: MedlineRecrui

Ok So My Opinion(and you know about those)

If your goal is to have a website that is a business and not just to share your most recent trip to Jellystone than I would say without question you invest some of your budget in hiring a professional. Just like the plumber or the electrition its not a matter of when everything is working that is in question, but what happens when things(and they always do) start to get a little screwy. If you opted to use a templated site than you are strapped to that template. The repair and the workaround always lies within the code, which of course now leads us to the poor soul who has to try to pick apart what has gone wrong. My motto is let the business owner be the business owner and let the web developer handle what he does best. With that said feel free to contact us at fixmypics.com@gmail.com if we can help you in your process. Thanks.
Leo Lazarus

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intechspecial 1,457 posts since
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44. Re: Website design - do I pay by the hour or lump sum? Nov 2, 2008 8:11 PM

Even if you do pay one lump sum, you will be paying by the hour. Companies that charge a flat rate estimate the amount of time it will take to complete a project and then add a few hours on for good measure.

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