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Good Mobile Internet Computing7/26/2009
I use this every day while deployed with the military here in the Middle East to stay in touch with my family back in the USA. This is a good basic computer. It isn't the fastest nor the most advanced, but it is perfect for normal internet and applications. I can access the internet without problems. The webcam and microphone look and sound great. The speakers a bit weak, but if you are looking for surround sound, then netbooks aren't right for you. I have loaded Microsoft Office 2007 and it starts up/runs fast. I recommend buying a 16GB+ SDHC card to keep your files on. This will ensure your SSD doesn't get bogged down and run too slow. For the price and portability, its a winner. Oh and if my family isn't online when I am, the webcam allows me to take videos and email them home as well as create a video diary.1 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
too small for adults11/29/2008
i bought it for the solid state drive and OS. I plan on giving this to my daughter as a gift. She is 11 and it will be a good computer for her. The keyboard is too small and the battery strength is poor3 Helpful | 1 Not Helpful
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Asus has found a great niche market with this computer. It is very small, but the screen resolution quickly has you forgetting the size. The keyboard is small but responsive. My only complaint at first was about the backspace key. It doesn't take you back when viewing webpages, but I learned that alt-right arrow does this. Linux is great, but does have a learning curve. I had never used it, but was able to navigate easily in a few minutes. Later I changed my desktop to advanced mode and learned enough commands to load new software with ease. As a matter of fact, I have only found a couple of programs I can't use in Linux, and the speed difference is profound over Windows. This model looks dinky in specs, but is faster than my laptop with a P4 running 2.4ghz. My 10 year old son liked it so much he bought one with his birthday money and uses it everyday as well. It has it's slow moments, but I can live with it due to the overall performance and quality. I am a stock trader, and usually have five web pages open at once including two with streaming quotes (which hog a lot of bandwidth). While I can't view all at once, they switch quickly, and I've never missed a trade due to speed issues. This is a great auxilliary laptop for people on the go. The small size is easy to adapt to, but it's still nice to have a larger screen to go back to at home. The factory battery has short life, but recharges quickly. I recently took this on a multi-state trip in the Northeast, and it never missed a beat. I was able to find enough hotspots to conduct business and research. Files transfer easily between my Windows PC's (so far without any formatting issues). Wireless is a breeze too. I really like the faster boot and shutdown times since it seems like I can take a nap waiting for Windows to do the same thing. This unit has made me consider switching to Linux on all my PC's (except for my main music workstation which has some programs that won't work in Linux, even under emulation). Everything else works great though. This is a real eye opener! There is a huge online support community too so troubleshooting is easy. Take the time to get used to it, and you won't go anywhere without it. I now believe the Linux hype, but it may not be the best OS for casual users who need a lot of handholding. Power users can do amazing things with minimal effort though, plus I've yet to get a blue screen of death or a program not responding error. After three months of very heavy use I think this is a great tool and will replace it with another when I wear it out.4 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
the 900 eee pc11/2/2008
I really like this small unit. I'd checked one out at the "box store" just so I wouldn't be surprised by anything. It packs nice. Of course more garbage software than you need, but every manufacture thinks that they need to bundle everything. Would recommend this to anyone that needs something to travel with as long as you are not planning on stressing the memory. 1GB is good, but 2 would be better. Screen is small, but you wanted this when you purchased this size. Keyboard is also small so wouldn't recommend speed typing on this. Good buy.
Great Value, although slow SSD card10/1/2008
The price and features for this 900 series eeepc are outstanding. Asus builds a quality product that feels and looks expensive. This particular eeepc has the 16gig ssd card, and I found out later on forums that it is a slow card compared to the 12gig and smaller cards. You will notice some slow application loads, but overall when surfing, and typing on a word document its not very noticeable. I would recommend it for its value, but caution if you are looking for a zippy little notebook, I would look elsewhere.3 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
Good for basic use9/30/2008
The 16GB SSD is slower than you might expect. I experienced long delay times in normal usage, most times a freeze lasting longer than 10 seconds. Turns out that NTFS is a terrible file format for this SSD because of the file-permissions associated with the write commands. Convert the NTFS sys volume to FAT32, and apparently things get quite a bit faster. I would think a SSD would be much faster than a normal hard drive, that's why I was dissapointed with the performance of the unit as a whole. Battery life was very good though.4 Helpful | 1 Not Helpful


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You probably came here in the process of doing research. Are you a small business looking to build a website? Or maybe you're a non-profit, looking to redesign your website in order to more effectively communicate your mission? Or, are you the marketing director for a multi-million dollar organization looking to improve customer relations and increase revenues?
Atilus has worked with all of the above, helping to build websites and implement online marketing plans for organizations of all sizes. We've been professionally developing websites for over a decade and we love to educate the business (and consumer) market at large about what it takes to build a website and, perhaps most importantly…
What it Costs to Build a Website
To skip ahead here is the breakdown we've created:
- Basic Website Design – This is either a do-it-yourself tool or pricing guidelines if you're talking to a web design agency.
- A Proper Website – With this level more thought, design, content, planning, marketing, is involved and this typically includes a tool that allows you to update your website yourself if a company builds it for you.
- Custom web design– Finally, something totally custom. Although not every project falls into this category, it's amazing how almost every site we do has a custom element to it.
This post is also written for web developers considering branching out on your own. We've found that the web community at large REALLY wants to know the going rate for website developments costs. Regardless of who you are, having a baseline to work with is always a good idea. Atilus is always up front about pricing and we believe everyone needs to be too (although honestly many in the internet marketing field are not – charging clients different amount based on their situation and income). Before we get to the pricing, I want to ask you… do you think you need a website?
This is important… and let's just get this out of the way… you need a website. Period.
And not just any website, but a great website with a clear, crisp easy to navigate design, with superb usability and functionality. Furthermore, YOU need to be able to easily update that website. It doesn't matter if you are a national corporate brand, a smaller brick and mortar with 'plenty of business', a brick and mortar with only local business, or an ice cream shop that only sells to people between 5'10 and 5'11 wearing baseball hats before 3 pm… you still need a website!
Your business can be broad or niche, it can be large or small, and despite what you may believe… you need a website!
Recently a local furniture company spent nearly a $million dollars!!!$ renovating their retail space in order to attract new business. But an investment in a great website and internet marketing plan costs a TINY FRACTION, but brought in MORE BUSINESS!
Now, what does a website cost?
Like the businesses they represent, websites are not all created equal. Websites serve various purposes, feature different technology and therefore they can vary greatly in cost as the level of design and functionality increases and becomes more complex to suit your company's needs. At Atilus our hourly rate is $150. We offer special discounts for partner companies, non-profits, and in select cases partner projects. All of our pricing is based on this hourly rate, our overall costs (wages + overhead) and the long-term costs of properly communicating and supporting our clientelle.
Basic Website – $10/month+ or $2000 – $5000
For 2015, we're splitting this section out into 2 parts:
1) If you hire a developer: $2000-$5000
A basic designed website, acts primarily as an online brochure, establishing a necessary presence online to answer your customers' questions "do you exist?", "are you professional?" and "what do you do?" A basic website can be created in the $2000 – $5000 range. This website may or may not allow you to interact in a 2-way conversation with your audience (social networking, blog), transact business directly through your site (ecommerce), or enable you to manipulate and update the pages and content within your site without hiring a web programmer/designer to do it for you (Content Management System does enable this for more $$$).
This gets complicated to further elaborate on why this may or may not be included. For us, the complexities of using and designing around a content management system (or tool that allows you to update your own website) is usually a bit more time consuming then coding HTML from scratch – additionally there are a lot of customer service, content, and small testing requirements that eat up time and budgets for all projects – but which make up a significant fraction of smaller projects.
A basic website site will serve to help brand and market your company, showcase your products and services and inspire sales as a lead generating tool. The design of your website will, most likely, be templated at such low costs. This means that your site probably mirrors that of other sites on the web. With our firm, these sites will be responsive using the latest standards to allow your site to look the same on nearly every computer/device and will be Search Engine Optimized (SEO) for greater natural search engine ranking success.
But not all firms code the same and have search engine optimization or online marketing as a top priority. Also, web analytics are provided with every site we build to track and ensure your web success.
2) If you do it yourself – Free – $50/month
With advances in business models, content management systems, and software there are now (and really there have been) some amazing tools online some include Wix.com, SquareSpace.com among many. These tools are amazing. As a development agency it's sometimes scary to see how far things have come.
However, it's important to note – these tools are often complicated and our (general) audience is still not comfortable learning and using these tools. Similar to the above – these sites are highly configurable, but still require some coding, graphic design, and other knowledge to cull out of them a custom, attractive look. However, these are excellent resources and I'd recommend these services for any business looking to do it themselves.
A Well Designed Site (update it yourself) – $7500- $30,000
Previously our pricing was in the $3000- $8,500 – for this line item (previously called Content Management System). We've since increased our pricing. We've gotten very good at tracking the total money needs of a project – throughout the lifetime of our relationship with clients. And this means we have to cover costs for phone calls, the sales process, meeting space, the actual work (OF COURSE!), and then after launch support.
Depending on the level of aesthetic design that is requested as well as additional features Content Management System (CMS) websites will run at a on average around $7500. These websites are created with both functionality and design in mind, as you will receive both custom art design and the ability to manage and update all content, images, and text contained within the pages of your site (infinite number of pages possible). With a CMS capable website, your site will have endless possibilities.
These websites are built with the idea that you will have a significant number of changes, additions or updates to be made to your site in the near future. Instead of being charged hourly rates to make such changes, a CMS system enables you to do a majority of the basic additions without prior coding or web designing knowledge. Social interactivity with your site visitors is possible with a site of this caliber, as a BLOG will be present within your site enabling you to place posts of content that you believe is relevant and desired by your audience. Your audience can choose to respond to your blog posts and each others comments allowing for 2 dimensional interaction between you, your audience, and within your audience.
Some ecommerce and real state listing sites can be created within this price range depending upon level of functionality and design. Also, sites of this caliber have varying prices with regard to design elements. These sites do have custom design work, but more expensive elements like Flash Art creation will affect pricing. Again, with our firm, these sites will be CSS and XHTML Coded to allow your site to look the same on nearly every computer and will also be Search Engine Optimized (SEO) for greater natural search engine ranking success. But not all firms code the same and have SEO as a top priority. Also, web analytics are provided with every site we build to track and ensure your web success.
Custom Website Design Price – $15,000- $100,000+
$15,000- $100,000+ If you are looking for advanced functionality including social networking, blogging, ecommerce, or any other web application topped off with great design and content that speaks to your audience you should expect to pay a bit more.
Like I said before, some ecommerce and web applications can be created for less, while most successful ventures are created for much more. Sites that have fallen in this price range include Facebook.com, Orkut.com, and BestBuy.com to name only a few (all GREATLY exceeding 6-figures). A site within this price range may be built and hand coded from scratch – and in all cases will require extreme customization – and coordinating various technologies in order to work with your company or infrastructure.
That means your site is unlike any other and requires the attention and expertise of an experienced web application developer(s) and web site designer(s). A site that falls into this category requires months of planning, research, consulting, database design and implementation, software development and integration, site quality assurance and testing.
This is the mother load and it is priced accordingly. I know what you are thinking, 'who knew it was so expensive?' And the only answer I can give is that web design and creation is like any other craft or trade and requires a high level of knowledge and expertise. Furthermore, with the rapid rate that technology and the internet is constantly changing, the gap is beginning to seriously widen between web amateurs and professionals. Can you still get a website for $500? Sure you can, but it will not display and operate like a professionally designed website will.
But I Can Get it Cheaper Elsewhere
You're right, and I know a number of our own clients have been able to create great sites at a fraction of the above pricing however, and I can't stress this enough, elements were left out – and future support was non-existent. Just 2 months ago two former clients came to us requesting a copy of their website as the companies each had gone with had disappeared and taken their website and email with them. Their email downage cost them tens of thousands of dollars, and their website represented more than a $5,000 initial investment and lost marketing dollars.
In all between the two of them this other provider ended up costing them nearly $30,000.
We're proud to continue to charge correctly, providing our clients with amazing support and technical know how. Even years after these clients ended the relationship due to price, they came back to us and we were around (with backup copies no less) of their sites, proving that "quality doesn't cost… it pays".
Unfortunately, even 5 years after writing this post we continue to hear story after story where companies explain – "our web guy was great, but then he disappeared."
Too often us web folks are kind, caring people, who are new to business uncomfortable asking for a fair rate that will allow their company to grow and prosper and allow for flexibility when emergencies arise. So we charge too little (Atilus did it at one point). Unfortunately that creates an eco-system where no one is accountable and – eventually – there's no one there to pick up the phone or answer an email when shit hits the fan. And believe me, eventually, the shit always hits the fan.
Not to mention there are literally hundreds of tiny steps that you – as the purchaser or client – will never know that need to be done. Making sure analytics code is correctly installed, making sure goal tracking is setup, submitting the site to webmaster tools, etc. and if these aren't done you are receiving a sub-par product (with potentially sub-par marketing results – learn more about your sites coding and its effect on your organizations overall marketing) and if they are done, even the simplest site will still take many hours to fully setup.
The bottom line is, like in many industries web design and development is definitely an area where you get what you pay for.
I took a look at your site and recommend it to my visitors. I agree with you on the importance of becoming valuable in many different areas. I believe that it sustains any entrepreneur during challenges that inevitably occur.
It is great to have a comparable price out there that I can take to clients. I may not be at the level that atilus is at, but I can show what web is worth.
Despite some of the negative feedback, I find your prices exceptionally reasonable. I actually find pricing websites is largely dependent on the client and not necessarily a boilerplate price list. I also find that most independent designers severely undervalue their work in the interest of getting the work which ends up being counter-productive.
Our firm's prices usually land at up to 25-50% more than your baseline, but our client base are typically agencies and medium size businesses. Unlike Modemlooper, it is not a matter of "robbing anyone blind" rather the valuation and price of the site is proportionate to the expectation and actual ROI. When we do a campaign for adidas, if it doesn't perform, we may get the money the one time, but we'll never again get the work and put our reputation and standing in jeopardy. It's not really JUST about the website ever – when one puts together an effective website, the designer should be considering overall strategy and business objectives; and in our case, there are almost always measurements of success (response, metrics, ROI) which is as it should be.
Overall, I think the guideline is good and I certainly agree with your statement of charging the client appropriate fees for appropriate services rendered.
One thing I may add,web design is a SERVICE industry not a "retail" industry with set prices for items …
One mistake I see much of the industry making, especially independent designers, is that they tend not to charge for what amounts to specialised business consulting leading up to the website (assuming they are really doing their job as a designer and not simply being a production artist).
Thank you everyone for continuing to participate with your opinions on this blog, as we appreciate all candid comments and criticisms. I will address the last few comments:
– Janet, I am glad that you have enjoyed the post. We feel so strongly about proper pricing structures, even though pricing is contingent upon so many different elements, that this post seemed inevitably necessary and appropriate despite the faux pas. I am very happy to hear that you are finding realistic and afforable solutions for your clients. That is news I will tip my hat to.
– Kirth, thank you for the recommendations and agreeableness on diversifications. I would love to have a conversation with you about creative and strategic internet marketing methods; I am sure we could both learn a lot from one another.
– Vince, I would like to gather our entire team together, read your comment out loud and then cheer and clap loudly! Your agreeableness and added insight is very much appreciated.
I hope all of you come back often to engage in more conversation to aid in public education and overall awareness. I think we can all agree that getting designers all on the same page, as well as offering the consumer fair pricing and quality service accordingly will be beneficial for all.
Through time I came to the conclusion that most "standalone" designers tend to undervalue their work while the groups of designers tend to pump up the value of theirs. Reading this article and overall debate gave me a good sense of the middle ground in price/value ratio. Thanks to all
Thank you for stopping by and leaving your comment, Zeljko. We are all very happy to facilitate a better understanding of internet development pricing structures to ensure that designers are paid appropriately for their work and clients are receiving quality product reflective of cost.
Hi from Brazil. Very interesting and good article.
You did what others dont: Tell the PRICES!
Every article I read, most of them show you the INFAMOUS calculator of 'How much you need of year?', 'divide for this', 'multiply for that', 'add 20% ans its your HOUR PRICE!
But many, forget to mention: A good PRO can do a site in less hours, and AMATEURS/WANNABE can take 1.000 hours for a UGLY/CRAP site. Its INJUSTICE!
I believe that an AGENCY has more professional envolved, more costs, so the PRICE is natural to be HIGH than most FREELANCERS!
For example, I am producing a website for a USA Travel Agency for US 1.600 Including an mini ADMIN for text.
But the medium Charge in Brazil is a 1.000/1.200 US for a Site.
Your article was very utile for my next Overseas Negociations.
And at last, Each client vary from one to one, although in the same niche, a good PRO must define what is the better soluction, and not start scratching without Consulting and Planning.
Keep it Up Scott!
how much money i will have to spend to create website?
Flavio, thank you very much for the compliment and for adding your personal insight. I am happy to see that our message is reaching international eyes. I wish you all the best in your endeavors, and I hope you experience all the prosperity you deserve.
I find the debate very interesting. I feel that I am under paid at my current job just like everyone… But I am making around $10K more than I was 3 years ago… why? Because I continued to strive to be a better employee. This is funny because I started freelance designing about two years ago and was horrible at it! I under charged my clients and since they were not investing REAL money into the project, they felt as if it never REALLY needed to be complete. Most of the projects I took on ended at the retainer. Legally, I had 25% of the total project cost, but I had no finished work to show for the hours haggling over small minute details of their site. It was a huge waste of time and a complete disaster.
I think its better to set the bar high, and if your clients value your work they will have no problem meeting it.
Thanks for your comment Paul. The freelance world can be challenging with on again off again relationships and constantly having to market yourself, do sales, stop to actually do the work, and then start all over again. I hope your business values your assistance and expertise!
Don't forget that you will have only one chance to create the right first impression – poorly designed, cheaply looking website may put users/ customers off
I think a lot of the comments here are from small scale designers like myself. If you're a big company and want the best of the best (which I feel you guys are), this is a fair estimation.
Everyone else, there's a difference between you and this firm. I do $1000 websites with CMS and a few custom functions once in a while. But there's defenitely a difference between me and these guys.
This article was very interesting, I'll keep it in mind (might even abuse it to promote my rates.. Yes I'm that shameless), thanks for the perspective guys!
Having worked as a freelance web developer, mainly as a coder, and then as a designer/developer for a design shop, and then into Sales and Business Development Management, I found this article, and it's comments, very enjoyable to read.
In my experience I've found the entire industry, especially the freelance area, tends to undervalue itself. In the end this under-valuation means that no-one is happy with the outcome, it's effectively a lose lose situation. The designer/developer is try to get the job done as quickly as possible so they make some money on the job, the client is thinking they're spending good money and the price and timeline is correct; unfortunately an unrealistic expectation.
The larger agencies can place themselves a little higher price-wise due to the range of professionals, and just numbers of resources at their disposal in order to get the job done. The level of confidence that the client receives as a result of a larger agency is much higher – and as a result the larger agency rates should be expected to be a higher.
Reducing risk for the client is the challenge of the freelancer. That doesn't mean you drop your rate and cower before them saying "please sir can I have some more" oliver twist style. You should back your ability, your portfolio, and your track record providing quality.
Most importantly "Shut up and listen to what the client wants". Then allow the time to provide the focus and design/development that the client deserves. Set your timeline accordingly, regardless of what you charge as an hourly rate.
If you're happy with your hourly rate – great! You should be looking to set that commensurate with your experience. Just don't ROB yourself of the hours it will take to actually get the job done.
My experience is that the client is always willing to pay for what they want. Yes, there's always a little management required, the challenge is giving them what they want in either the timeframe that they want, or the timeframe that YOU set for the project. Most clients are willing to trust you to take their problem away from them and solve it, and will trust your opinion on the timeframe.
I suppose what I'm saying is Be Honest! This applies to the Agency environment as well. Both with yourself and the client. If you think a job is going to take 4 weeks – don't say you can get it done in 2 weeks because the client is eager to get it done (which is always the temptation), and you think you can do some all-nighters and then have a week off. It doesn't ever work out like that.
The client will appreciate your honesty, and then perhaps they'll realise that perhaps they're asking for too much to begin with, perhaps they need to break this into stages, scale the site back to something more within their budget….etc. etc.
The best thing you can do as a freelancer or one or two man show is to "Partner Up". Find other designers/developers, get out there in the community and either find people in your area, or online, or perhaps even an agency. Have people you can hand off work to and work together with. Partners can help you out with work, but the best spin-off is that they can provide opportunities that you'll never be aware of. A 30 minute meeting with an Agency or just a couple of like minded freelancers could provide you with more opportunities for work than you'll ever find yourself.
Let your client know that you have other resources at your disposal, that you have partners.
I know this has been a bit of ramble – so I'll wrap it up.
The short story here is, Be Honest on the timeline for the project, charge a rate you're happy with, and then deliver! The cost will be secondary to the client, because their problem is solved, they've exactly what they wanted and you're a superstar in their eyes.
Easy isn't it!?
Thanks Chris for the fantastic comment. We couldn't agree with you more. In my follow up article I address your concerns regarding the freelance industry in more depth and feel you are spot on.
Hey I am an amateur web designer, and I plan on going back to school in spring. That being said, I don't believe myself to be and "ineffective and unsuccessful individual.'
Wow, that all I can say at this point. I want to say thank you up front. Im going to think about it and post a bigger comment later. but i feel you are dead on on the pricing. now all i have to do is to get my customers to understand that too.
I believe the prices mentioned in the article are fair ones, but only the real professionals with killer portfolios can charge that high. I just wonder how many clients around here can afford to pay such a high prices.
Thanks for stopping by and posting your comment Zlatko. I agree with you, but killer portfolio is subjective. You can evaluate a website on any number of items including design, which is the normal thing touted by web developers. But, you can also evaluate a site on customer satisfaction, customer service, performance in relation to the overall goals (traffic, sales, etc.) these are often less easy to evaluate as they are not visual and a casual browser may not be able to know (and in some cases, like sales, should not know as they are confidential).
ok i'm only responding to this again because I have been email a few times over my comment. The prices listed in this article are more than what most small businesses want to pay. I get people wanting a brochure site as you call it for a few hundred bucks. So this is why I say that you can charge more for big business, they have more money. I'm not saying you should charge more than market rates but by comparison to what these small businesses expect to pay it seems like you are robbing big business. My comment also states that you should check out job sites for salaries to compare your abilities to to get an idea what to charge people. This is for the complete beginner as you grow you learn to price more accordingly. What you did last year should certainly take less time this year making you faster and then can charge more competitively.
This is all really mute because as a freelancer you are running your own business and can charge what ever people are willing to pay.
I start my clients meetings with what do they want to accomplish and then find out what budget they have.
Wow, what an excellent post Scott. I think the fact you've received such an admirable response from your visitors, who've contributed to the discussion, makes it even better.
A few points I'd like to share:
– Going freelance is never a point blank decision you should make. I made that mistake; thinking I could earn a living by designing coming straight out of University, but it quite honestly wasn't the case. The work never materialised and after months of building up a client base and 'whoreing" my work around the web, for want of a better word, I'm finally starting to pick up jobs when the time could have been better spent looking for a proper job with a studio.
I really do think this line of work is something you find yourself in without having made a conscious decision to enter into. Pumping away at a calculator, as modemlooper (comment 21) astringently points out, although not a bad way to start putting a figure against your skill set, does seem awfully calculated (excuse the pun)when you see it from the clients perspective.
Fair enough, if you take the risk and start a business it's a different story. Then you have your overheads and price hikes, as many of your diligent readers have pointed out. It's then, that I think, the gap widens between the amount of bang a client can get for their buck and the amount of bureaucratic project management chartering and consultation they can, and are likely, to incur. After all you can post on numerous sites advertising what you want and have two dozen well performing designers jump at your request (believe me; I know of talented friends who are doing it). Which leads me nicely onto my next point…
– Admittedly before reading the comments, and after reading the original post I was thinking; 'Jesus, this guy must be having a laugh with those prices' – £70/per hour to amend a piece of blog code. But now, after reading your explanations in the comments, I have come to accept that that £70 may well be split proportionally between the amount of people's expertise it's required to fix the problem/generate a solution. This is a good thing. In theory jobs get done quicker, tailored with more advanced, failsafe, solutions and the client is happy. At the end of the day all you can do is listen, be honest (as Chris covers in his comment (36)), offer a fair price, and let the client decide where they want to put their cash.
-Third point in case: To the readers who mention designers who undervalue their work, notably vince ota's (comment 27). This is so true. I've seen work done for pittance, and often for free in order to draw in new clients, and often friends of mine have been taken for an absolute ride; 'change this, change that'-type thing. I've even done it in the past and it's not worth jumping at projects that are bland, or uninspiring to you (or clients that have a reputation for being damn right awkward) just to earn the fee. At the end of the day you're doing everyone involved a disservice and potentially undermining your reputation (so important to many in this trade and rightly so). How about handing the work over to a fellow freelancer or contact instead? They will appreciate it, I know I would! They may return the favour with something cool, which just doesn't float their boat, in the future.
I always have in the back of my mind that you're only as good as your last project and I aso agree, for a designer, it can be really counterproductive and demoralising to come off the back of a job unsatisfied. The feeling merges into future projects and it's easy to get stuck in a rut.
Scott you seem to have it nailed regarding how to handle projects and what fees to charge. If you're pulling in the work then my hat goes off to you. For the rest of us, notably myself, I still think that charging an hourly rate and taking into account the clients budget (staggering, or 'scaling' a project down good tip there Scott) is the best course of action for a hassle free billing arrangement.
Now I'll pose a question if I may be so bold: If you charge a base hourly rate, should you explicitly outline this on your service/folio pages? Does it demean your skills or conversely would it help potential customers price their jobs? I take into account vince ota's point (comment 27) about designing/developing being a service industry, not a retail one while proposing this point. Would love to hear your opinions, as I'm sure Scott would.
wow great article! I get clients would want a website done but willing to pay up to 300 only! so sad!
Good article but the rates given here are way too high compared to what yo get in outsourcing market. Go to country like INDIA and they will do the same work with same quality at 75% less rate. Many say that they charge less so the quality of work is also low, but no mistake that's not always true.
Thanks for the article! Very informative, and, in a way, reassuring. I'm a Web developer, but only recently made the jump to working for myself. Looking at the marketplace, I also see prices all over the board. But, the estimates/examples you gave are, to me, solid. (As are the descriptions of what to expect.) Thanks again!
@Smith – Good for you if you know someone in India who'll do a good job for cheap. The way I look at it is you could get a stock site for 15USD from a hosting company and be done with it. If you want to see crazy prices; I think it's ridiculous you can go somewhere like this (www.freelance-projects.info) and find companies/individuals in Delhi, undercutting, and stating they can do a good job on a website from scratch for 60USD (half a day's work :S). That's half a wire-frame in my book. Some of these people have holding pages for portfolios, which look like they were made by a kid!
Hi Lewis, Kate, and Smith. Lewis, I have to agree with you here about Smith's comments. It is very true that work in India is much cheaper. At the very beginning we choose to try to keep costs low and outsource some work overseas, but the back-and-forth and communications problem ended up being an even greater expense. I do agree that the quality of work can be very high (although not always), but, at least in our case we experienced huge communication issues and it just wasn't worth our time and ended up costing more. Additionally, there may be some security concerns depending on your client or the work you are trying to produce. Thanks again everyone for stopping by!
Finally! Thanks for this great article.
I have been working in the New Media Industry for 12 years now, and actually think your rates are spot on with a smaller web agency. $120/hour for a project is pretty fair, compared to what a national or worldwide ad agency will charge for their services. I have seen bid sheets with hourly rates more than twice that amount, and larger companies will most definitely pay these rates to insure the success of their brand.
Here is something to think about…
A local restaurant could have a web site designed and build for around $7K. It serves the needs of the local market enough and gives the local customer a view of the place, the menu, where they are located, and any special events that might take place. It only gets a few hundred hits a week, and that is fine. There were probably only a few design comps done, and the copy was written by the Daytime Restaurant Manager in the off hours. There is really no need for a backend, other than to send a basic email to that manager. It probably only took less than a week to be built by a few freelance designers.
Now think of national chains like Applebee's, TGI Fridays, or something like that. They have hundreds of locations, and have the need to drive thousands of customers to their web site each day to see promotions and marketing efforts. Their branding guidelines are a 157 page book of rules and regulations that need to be followed to a "T". There were 4 months of revisions on 35 design comps done by a team of 10 designers. And SEM team works with the team of copywriters who then must work with a team of attorneys to make sure the content is sending the write message to the right people and not getting the company sued. The site has streaming video, Flash applications and animations, integrated content management, guerilla marketing efforts like Youtube seeding and Facebook applications, Flash banner campaigns on every major new syndicate available, and a network of servers pushing all of this data with 99.99% uptime.
How much would you pay for that? $100K, $500K, $1M, $5M, or $10M?
A service should be priced based on how much money the client will make off of your abilities.
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It is really a nice post, its always great reading such posts, this post is good in regards of both knowledge as well as information.We couldn't agree with you more. In my follow up article I address your concerns regarding the freelance industry in more depth and feel you are spot on. Thanks for the post.
I agree with many of your points. Everyone needs a website. I do feel that your prices are very unrealistic. It does not take 12,000 or even close to get a CMS website. You can find many companies with great design for under 2,000.
Hello Rachel,
Thanks for stopping by. See rascalpants respond above.
I agree to some of your points but it is not always that the amateurish designers don't come up with a perfect website, many times they do come up with good designs!
What are some tips when getting a freelancer to design a website?
Those who have a ample budget as well as want a professionally designed website, this post can help them to get a rough idea about the cost of a website.
Being a South FL freelancer (graphic and web design) and an ex-F&B employee, I can't help but notice some inconsistencies in the comments to this post. The prices outlined here can be either realistic or unrealistic, depending on who you are hiring to do the job. In regards to rascalpants response, I agree that in a perfect world, services "should be priced based on how much money the client will make off of your abilities", but it would be nice to know where that crystal ball is that tells us which local restaurants will end up being the next TGI Fridays (or, if we want to get local to Atilus, consider Hooters). TGI Fridays and Hooters both had major investors behind them. Most local mom-and-pops do not, and they are taking a financial risk by paying $XXXX for a site that might help their business or might not. Besides, most big corporations start with everything. They can afford to pay one big firm to handle all their marketing needs, from logo design to corporate ID to website design to marketing and radio, etc. etc. etc. It's one-stop shopping. If a company has a graphic standards manual, chances are that they aren't going to hire the firm or person to that didn't write it to design their website.
Also, rascalpants references SEM. Maybe that local restaurant can't afford to pay for keywords. They are going to rely on careful planning and SEO, and with patience and an attentive designer/developer, it will pay off for them.
Also, I take umbrage with this remark which seems to be regarding freelancers; "the gap is beginning to seriously widen between web amateurs and professionals. Can you still get a website for $500? Sure you can, but it will not display and operate like a professionally designed website will and it will be as ineffective and unsuccessful as the individual who designed it." Whether or not this statement was meant to attack freelancers (or just the kid who took an HTML class in high school and offered to design a site), it is extremely negative. So, the fourth-year web design honor student who needed some extra money to upgrade to CS4 and only charged $500 for that site is ineffective and unsuccessful? No, he needs the money and the work for his portfolio so he can continue to be more successful. In addition, I have seen glaring oversights in websites that cost a bundle and were created by large firms.
I realize that this was written by someone who is part of a design firm, but there are a few big differences between firms and freelancers that are not addressed. First off, freelancers don't have much overhead, hence they can offer lower prices. Secondly, most freelancers don't take on more work than they can handle, and since they cannot take on as many projects at one time, they have an exclusivity that big firms don't. Thirdly, having no overhead costs to worry about, they can work with potential clients when pricing becomes a hurdle. I have made less of a profit on a job because I want the business I am working with to be successful, and that made the client happy, which meant many recommendations from them and more business for me. Lastly, the one thing my clients have all told me: I am more attentive and hands-on with their projects than a firm would be (or, in some cases, was). They can call me on the weekends, and I am there to address their thoughts. I don't have to tell them I need to talk to the SEO guy to see what's going on and call them back, I can answer their questions on the spot.
I started freelancing when I decided I wanted to continue my education and couldn't continue a full-time job with a firm. It has since turned into a lifestyle choice, and I make more freelancing than I did when I was working for a firm, and I definitely have more fun.
Comparing firms and freelancers takes a bit more consideration, as does the pricing scales for either. I support my local businesses. Many local businesses support local freelancers, and for more reasons than the price.
Is there any way I may contact you personally regarding you doing some work for me?
Wed designing is a task which needs a lot of patience and hard work and creativity.
I don't think it can done at low cost. How much should we rely on cheap website designing
I'll give you a better site than this guy can for the same price.
We couldn't agree with you more. In my follow up article I address your concerns regarding the freelance industry in more depth and feel you are spot on.
Quite inspiring,
This is a very useful article to work out the costs of setting up a buisness,
Anyway, thanks for the post
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Nice and detailed explanation about the cost of the web designing. Every designer must link to this page, if someone mail then to get a quote from them. Fantastic job
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Hard to believe how much some of the big name companies will pay for their domain names.
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I decided I wanted to continue my education and couldn't continue a full-time job with a firm. It has since turned into a lifestyle choice, and I make more freelancing than I did when I was working for a firm, and I definitely have more fun.
I wanted to continue my education and couldn't continue a full-time job with a firm. It has since turned into a lifestyle choice, and I make more freelancing than I did when I was working for a firm, and I definitely have more fun.
Its called 'Rip off'
Instead of buying a custom made website, try a template which costs $50.
For CMS there is always open source sites.
If ur retarded, you will spend more than $100 for a website/ CMS site..
You sir are the retard.
Yeah…and when you find that template doesn't do everything you need it to do, you're going to need to hire someone anyway or do it yourself.
You may be one of the ones that a pre-made template on a CMS with no modifications to the template works great for. For many businesses, however, that's limiting to them and they need more work done than that. Then the cost goes up.
Web designing I guess is the most intricate task of a web programmer cos end-users has unending demand towards a certain site which is why a certain website has also an unending development.
Thanks for great tips!
Determining how much a web site should cost is one of the most frequently asked but rarely answered questions in the web design world. Anywat thanks for this posting. best wishes……
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Generally it boils down to: what is the site worth to the client? Then cut the cloth accordingly
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Reading this post, My first reaction, as a professional myself, was that your prices were substantially too low (at least 50%).
Then I browsed through your portfolio, and changed my mind. For work of this quality, they are about right.
I can only agree that most work is sold under value, specially when it comes to custom coding. Sure, any 2 year PHP developer can setup a DB, and add a few functions, but to have a foolproof system and an outstanding design, costs are way higher, as there's not only the design needed, but test phases, coding itself, obeying to web standards, accessiblity, security and much more. No home-designer will get such a page done in a way that could satisfy those requirements, which once more makes it clear that professional website design is more than just clicking a page together in photoshop & dreamweaver.
I am a designer at Insigniasports.com.
The company wanted to upgrade our site with a CMS and a custom designed e-commerce that handled complicated ordering/currency/ shipping and tax issues in 3 countries in 2 languages.
Myself and the other designer (we both design sites but in the $2000+ range) said to get this done professionally the company would need to spend somewhere near the $30,000 to $35,000 mark. The best of the respected outfits came back with a $25,000 to $30,000 range.
Against our advice they got the site done out of India for less than $7,000. Well you guessed it it all turned to shite. The design/CMS was ok but the commerce side cost us customers. They then got a lower quality local outfit to try and bandage the site for another $12,000. They just made it worse. So it was all rebuilt properly for $25,000. 6months and $44,000 later – they got what they wanted with a serious lesson learnt.
Designers who offer a better job for less are out of their minds. You are undercutting your own industry. Value add instead of charging less or discounting (this is basic business). Charge your worth and live well. If you charge low $ for many hours well you're saying you're not worth much. You and your work will get lost in the ether.
thanks for this article and to everyone for the comments, very enlightening!
i have done websites for others as a moonlighting job for years, since it's not my main job i don't do much research into the business end, so it's great to see what other people are charging and how they're running the web design business.
@ derek cook, sometimes you have to go with what the market will bear. i've been steadily charging more over the years as i get more experience, but there always seems to be a cap on what my [very niche] market will pay. rest assured though, my prices tend to be about $1 less than that cap 😉
i agree with the other poster about how a lot of the site's cost is invisible- the soundness of the coding behind the site, the customer service, etc. i'm expensive for my niche but i'm easy to get ahold of and my code is pretty rock-solid, so i feel comfortable charging extra for those assurances. most of my websites look good and work fine for years on end.
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it can be really counterproductive and demoralising to come off the back of a job unsatisfied. The feeling merges into future projects and it's easy to get stuck in a rut.
i still need a website! Your business can be broad or niche, it can be large or small, and despite what you may believe… you need a website!
Worst of all is that many are deceived with sites priced "popular", which most often are just templates ready running under a CMS platform. And not even took care to design consistent with the company's visual identity, usability of the site.
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Thank you so much. Just beginning to dip my toe into web development and design and I'm HOOKED! This article was fantastic! Quick question. Your pricing in your sub-headings don't seem to always match the pricing in your text. Was that intentional?
Custom Website – $1500-$3500
$2500-$7500 ….
Thanks for taking the time to share with the industry the value of some services. It's important to note that not all web firms are created equal. You really do get what you pay for. Some firms charge a fee for design but don't really go over creative briefing/discovery or strategy. With these you get a design but it may not fit all your goals. Other firms do dive into "packaging" you so you get a more custom design. Some observations with current industry trends are that most custom web designs by a real firm (not a freelancer) are going at $5000-$12000 to start. Add database functionality with users/authentication interaction and most of these projects with creative start at around $15,000-20,000. More complex functionality with e-commerce, reporting, etc. expect to have a budget of at least $25,000 to start. Good luck and happy shopping. Be sure to provide all the high level expectations of your project as web firms can't guess all of the needs you may have.
wow this was a lot of gfreat info. i am a web designer myself and i have a friend who wants to develop a social networking site. i tried to explain to him that to do a site of that magnatude, its gonna require a lot of money and time. now he can see that i wasnt lying!!! thanks a lot!!!
While these prices are reasonable considering the amount of work put into these projects, $2000 is still out of range for the small mom and pop stores and local professionals.
I agree you really can't get a quality customized site for much less unless you offshore a lot of the work, however the most important aspect of the web development really isn't having the nice shiny website. It's being able to generate traffic from the website and that has whole lot more to do with SEO and website marketing than it does with website design.
It's nice that you try to make a pricelist of getting a website done, but I don't think you can expect these prices to hold water everywhere.
Often, the prices depend on the person/company you use for the work and other, similar factors.
Just think how much cheaper it will be to have the work done in India than in the US.
There's a couple of factors in the price of a website that the comments have failed to touch on. Can you get a website for $500-1000 from India, Pakistan, Russia, or even right here? Sure you can. But do those freelancers have a vested interest in whether your business succeeds or not? Maybe they do, but often times they do not.
I have worked a little bit as a freelancer, and almost every client I worked with needed their site fixed from the previous freelancer who built it. That's not how you want to present the face of your business. When you choose who is going to build your website, you are choosing a business partner. You are deciding who is going to build the very representation of your business. If it were myself, I would look for someone who I could trust, someone who I could communicate with, and who would be there for follow up.
Most businesses realize that they need a decent website. They may not have the budget for all that they really need. But, in the words of Jeffrey Zeldman, it is more important to do a subset of the job right, than to do the whole project wrong.
Clients usually know a little bit about the website building process, but they don't know enough to do it themselves. Some freelancers do a decent job, but many slap a site together without testing it, without web standards, or without concern to what objectives the site is even intended to exist for. When you hire someone to build your web presence, you are hiring them for their expertise, not just code.
TOTALLY spot on. It's an issue on both sides. The average person can't afford to spend thousands of dollars on web design and their typically ignorant about how the who process works. This makes them easy targets for sub standard service providers because people doing the hiring don't know what they don't know.
Thank you for the article! I am currently working on a customs wordpress.org site for a client who thought $15/hour to buildout the site (with a $1000 cap) was realistic. The bigger issue obviously is just the time spent, the small details, etc.
I liked how to categorized the different levels of website development and actually attached pricing to them. It's a good move by you guys.
I have offered to design my landlord's consultancy website which is based on Joomla, for £250. For a custom design, logo and branding advice thrown in. I whipped up a very simple draft version in 2 days of coding.
I am by no means a professional designer; what tips and techniques I have garnered over the years are purely from trial and error.
This article is indeed very interesting for hobbyist designers such as myself that are looking to venture into the world of professional development at some point in the future.
Thanks Kevin.
P.S. I hope you do not mind me plugging myself here. I am willing to speak to any small business that is looking to start a venture online. I can be contacted via email: markwhit86[at]hotmail.com. Regards.
I live in rural Canada. If I charge what you suggest, unfortunately I would get little work. But I LOVE this page, because when my clients turn pale and want to throw up at the $1,500 price I give them, I send them to this page to educate themselves. Thank you very much.
Hey guys just wanted to say thanks. I typically use your site to show my clients what professionals charge, and why i charge only a couple hundred dollars (i know that isnt much.)
i want to have a website which concerns tourism.how basic or complex can it be and how much will it cost me to make one?sorry its not a comment but a question.
Great article.
So prices are high undoubtedly. But these are prices for a top quality products, using fresh solutions, with full support. Sure you can get a website done cheaper, but who want's to risk thier brand in this highly digitilized world?
After reading the informative blog post and learning that there are still a few transparent digital agencies out there I had to leave my 2 cents, however inexperienced it may be.
I agree with the prices that you charge since you have the track record to back it up along with a well designed / branded website of your own as an obvious testimony (side note, I love the faint white background patterns on your site). I am a college student and do not study design but do earn a healthy income through freelance link building where I show a direct correlation between my actions and my clients ROI to justify my prices. Not to sound derogatory, but how can web design agencies in general claim ROI, or any kind of financial gain, as a factor for their pricing since there is no way to prove such claims -unless they are providing continual A/B testing-?
Not looking for a fight but just an honest response.
Secondly, – I know im going to sound like the devils advocate but I promise it's just the marker side of me mixed with intellectual curiosity since I know how hard design is – when you say that a basic website is between 1,000-2,000$ and that is does not
"allow you to interact with your audience (social networking, blog), transact business directly through your site (ecommerce), or enable you to manipulate and update the pages and content within your site without hiring a web programmer/designer to do it for you"
isnt that a bit of a stretch now a days? I know from personal experience that for under 500$ one can use adobe muse/adobe BC to create a fully functional website that includes all the necessary features and then some without any coding knowledge at all? I admit, it will be nothing like a custom website designed by you guys, but it will still be better than 80% of local business websites which are from the 90's and/or are designed by web design agencies that charge your price and dont provide the basics like having a response design?
To end my rand of questions which will probably cause a mob of angry web designers to troll my sites (just a joke lol)
I agree with your pricing but personally think the vast majority of web design agencies (or former media companies) do not have your skill and expertise and therefore are not justified in charging similar prices (i am judging said design companies solely on their website and their branding elements of their own blog, most of which lack originality and creativity). But I know the agencies that I am referring to do not represent anyone here on this blog.
Once again, great post and even better feedback from the readers.
Very good article. I do custom websites and it's true, you do get what you pay for.
Hey Zach great stuff, Quick question as for your CMS, is this your custom application or when you refer to CMS are you speaking about wordpress as the CMS?? Thanks.
You totally nailed it here. Definitely get what you paid for. Websites are not just expenses but assets that generally have a 3-5 year life expectancy.
Great article, but with those prices not many people searching on google are willing to pay for. I assume you go after bigger companies and pitch your prices to them and not wait for anything substantial to come to you from google?
I came across this site while busy preparing a quote for one of the municipality in the province. Comments made here were an eye opener. Thanks Zach for your work bro!
I design websites using Adobe Muse.. Its great. Thanks for the price information. My question is hosting. If i build a site what should i do about hosting. Monthly, or yearly. And what should that price be.
This is a nice article. The pricing in Norway is about he same. But Im since I want to move to south West Florida this is nice to know.
It's hard to shake the idea that websites aren't a commodity. Websites are something that someone, often multiple people, have to put together. Viewing it as service-based will help you to better understand why a one-off price isn't simple to give.
This is really a very good article, I was looking for this from long time. Very Useful and informative. Share more articles like this to understand the current trends.
What a great article. I've struggled with pricing for years often chargining based on customer's budget, which usually meant I lost money. For projects that exceed $5000.00, do you guys break the payments up based on the project stages?
Thanks agian this really helped.
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