How To Come Up With The Best Web Design Quotes

By Doris Rivas


For a newbie freelancer, coming up with the best web design quotes can be a daunting task. Generally, breaking every aspect of the job and how much time it takes to complete can really be helpful. Here are a few tips on pricing your work as a web designer.

To work efficiently, it is very important to have a job outline for the project at hand. Basically, this helps manage expectations for both the developer and the client. A good outline contains the required tools for the job, type of activity that is going to be accomplished, the amount of time these tasks will take and the expected results.

Usually, the rule of thumb is to provide an hourly rate for the whole project. As a novice freelancer, it can be hard to quote the exact time for a particular task but this will get better as you become more experienced.

A typical website will require a header and footer, several web pages, the website's start page and maybe a navigation system that links all the pages. A webmaster may complete designing and testing these system for a few hours depending on the complexity of the website and the expert's skill level. Let's assume that that the webmaster takes three hour to complete this task.

Adding in special features to the website. The customer may also need the webmaster to add in a few special features to the website like blogs, shopping cart, database configuration etc. To do all these, the webmaster was able to take say two hours.

Another aspect that the webmaster will need to work on is the domain registration and web host configuration. Generally, the client may require you to register a new host or maybe work with an already existing one. As much as this may seem like a simple task, it can take a long time more so if you have to retrieve passwords from the host or maybe call them for a few other things. Let's assume that to do all this, the programmer takes four hours.

Generally, most websites require ongoing updates. They can be performed on a weekly or monthly basis depending on the type of website. The rule of thumb is to discus with the client how you will be billing them in advance. In general, you could decide to bill them on an hourly basis or even a fixed monthly amount.

So, here is a recap of how you will come up with the web design quotes. The first thing to do is to add up all the hours you have worked for the project. In the case above, the total hours add up to nine hours. Also, it is important to make consideration that you will need to make corrections and changes here and there as advised by the client so you can multiply the nine hours with a factor of 1.5 to cater for this. So by now, the total billable time will be thirteen and a half hours.




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