How Much did you pay for your website?

29.October, 2009

I would like to see your website and how much you paid for it including all graphic design , domain , hosting , the whole works. I also would like to know if the website you have is one that is designed professionally or a package you bought into and designed yourself. If your site was designed professionally also please tell me if you paid for the project as a whole or if you paid hourly rates or by the pages and what the cost of each of those were. I know that is a lot but with the economy the way it is right now , my girlfriend who I share expenses with just had to take a 400 dollar cut in pay , and so I really need to start rounding up more customers for my web design business , but my rates were never really set before , I just was cheap to help out who ever I was making the website for , now I need to be realistic …so please help.
Thanks in Advance
~Kadence~
Thanks for your answer but , I already know how to do all that stuff , I am asking this question as a web designer … wondering how much I should charge my customers.

Mine’s probably average, so you don’t necessarily need to see it: I did it myself. Domain name registration: $8 per year (cost of a paperback book!) Domain hosting, $145 for 3-year commitment. Cheap, and a good company.

I bought Photoshop ($700 or so) for graphics, and BBedit ($125) for code building. You could buy, or get free, different software for the same stuff (GIMP for graphics is free and Notepad++ for code-building is free, for two examples).

I bought a dozen or so reference books at a fair price so I don’t have to go online to look stuff up all the time: does that count as an expense? How about the laptop itself. My time?

I charge $45 per hour. Consulting after the first hit is chargeable: I learned that, after the first job, where the client spent more time "consulting" than I spent "doing". I also go for a one-hour minimum, for those cases in which clients keep calling up for a "oh, this’ll only take you five minutes" shot.

I know that many pros use CS4, which includes Photoshop and also Dreamweaver (automated website creator and Flash and all the slick things…and quite a bit of learning involved, of course). But that booger is expensive, and of course, the cost would have to be passed on and parceled out, no?

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3 Comments für “How Much did you pay for your website?”

  1. BtG sagt:
    29.October, 2009 um 3:51 pm

    check out 1&1 (http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=17378169), they can help you with domain registration, site creations shopping cart, etc. very simple to set up a site with them.

    good luck!
    References :
    http://www.blogtogreat.com/

  2. clyde_greentree sagt:
    29.October, 2009 um 4:07 pm

    I did mine myself. But, I am paying my brother $35/hour to re-do it in SquareSpace – which is one of the better hosted web site solutions. Maybe something like eLance and a nice portfolio of sites will work for you.
    References :

  3. fjpoblam sagt:
    29.October, 2009 um 4:15 pm

    Mine’s probably average, so you don’t necessarily need to see it: I did it myself. Domain name registration: $8 per year (cost of a paperback book!) Domain hosting, $145 for 3-year commitment. Cheap, and a good company.

    I bought Photoshop ($700 or so) for graphics, and BBedit ($125) for code building. You could buy, or get free, different software for the same stuff (GIMP for graphics is free and Notepad++ for code-building is free, for two examples).

    I bought a dozen or so reference books at a fair price so I don’t have to go online to look stuff up all the time: does that count as an expense? How about the laptop itself. My time?

    I charge $45 per hour. Consulting after the first hit is chargeable: I learned that, after the first job, where the client spent more time "consulting" than I spent "doing". I also go for a one-hour minimum, for those cases in which clients keep calling up for a "oh, this’ll only take you five minutes" shot.

    I know that many pros use CS4, which includes Photoshop and also Dreamweaver (automated website creator and Flash and all the slick things…and quite a bit of learning involved, of course). But that booger is expensive, and of course, the cost would have to be passed on and parceled out, no?
    References :

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