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| How Do Web Designers / Developers Price Their Work?
How Do Web Designers / Developers Price Their
Work?
One of the first and most important issues a freelance must
address is how much to charge for their services. If you’re
interested to know what are the necessary elements to consider
while quoting for a project, you’ve come to the right place.
This article can serve as a reference to both buyers and bidders.
There is more than one method each individual determine the
price of a particular project. Depending on each individual,
some might charge by the hour or by the total cost of the
project.
Hourly charges are the easiest for the service providers and
eliminate the possibility of losing money on a job. However,
hourly charges are often not acceptable to the client for
several reasons. First of all, buyer generally wants to know how
much a particular project is going to cost.
The next problem is that most buyers don’t understand hourly
rates. Luckily at Vezine Content
Management, all quotes are base on the total cost of the
project; hence, this confusion had been eliminated.
The key to an accurate estimates lies in clearly defining the
scope of the project, breaking the project into small individual
tasks, and finally, estimating the time required to complete
each of these tasks. It is essential for buyers to provide as
much information of the project as possible.
Then lock in the scope of the project with a written contract or
agreement. Seller should make sure buyer understands any work
outside of the agreement will be billed separately.
Purchasing Pre Made Software
Often then not, purchasing a pre made software is better and
more cost effective than hiring a personal developer. Although
some pre made software are near but can’t meet your expectation,
you are well better off go ahead and purchase the software which
nearly meets what you want and ask for some custom fine tuning
by the developers of the software.
Using this method, you can benefit by having a better-built
system since the developers are already familiar with their own
software and since they are already in business, you don’t have
to worry about being scam.
For example, I recently bought Vezine Content Management
software, which the features nearly meet, what I want but
not totally. I still went ahead and bought it and ask the Vezine
developers for some custom works. They are more than happy to
help me accomplish what I need for my website.
Their charges are extremely reasonable especially when it comes
to built bits and pieces, which could sum up to 10K++. Overall,
the system works great for me now. Everything works beautifully
and as what I expected.
Conclusion
Whether to find a personal developer or to buy a pre made
software is up to you. This article is here to gives you an
insight of my experience.
Good luck!
About the author:
George as a Web Designer has been involved with numerous server
side programming with PHP and MySQL in the past and current.
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