I recently came across my first opportunity to design a commercial website. Although I am competent in designing websites, I am not sure how webmasters should be paid -- bid or per hour?
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No one in his right mind pays a per-hour rate. Figure out how long you think it's going to take, multiply that by 2.5, then multiply that by the hourly rate you'd like to make.\n\nOr, as I tell everyone, "however much money he has to spend, that's how much it should cost." The problem is learning how to figure out how much money people have.
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I do need some flash work and web designing done on my site (techbrian.com) -- if you need the work just shoot me one: webmaster@techbrian.com (We'll talk about it, I need the work soon too)!
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Either advertise locally or pay yahoo. With yahoo you fix a price with them, this is a price that you pay to them each time someone clicks your site (CTR) click through rate  (PPC) pay per click. Not when they buy from you,its when they click your page, so it could be a lot of money.The higher the price per click that you agree, the nearer the top of the search page you will go.
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I  have a business I do from home using the Internet. You can see my site at http://www.writershelper.com. \n\nI have a service business and the Web site primarily advertises my business, although it earns money in its own right as well. Some of the links on my site earn me money when people click on them.\n\nMy next step will be to create two other sites that simply earn money without my having to provide a service.\n\nAll of this is quite possible without knowing html or being a designer or having any other specialized technical knowledge.\n\nI have done what I've done with the tools I got from the site below. That site has several high quality free e-books (and a few others that you have to pay for).\n\nBest wishes as you pursue your goals to support your family.
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The options for setting up a website are as varied as the options for choosing a car. Choose what you think your needs are from the left-hand column and follow the instructions in that row. \n\nWho You Are  What You'll Need to Invest  Do This  Don't Do This  \nI'm a student and need to be able to put my class projects on a website. \n\nI just want to set up a personal site with a few photos and some generic information. \n\nI'm campaigning for public office and don't want to spend any money on the Internet, but someone told me I need a website. \n\nThere's no way I'm going to spend anything on building a website, but I'm sure I need one.  Free websites are available everywhere. You'll need to spend at least half an hour to set up what you want, but you don't need any special skills. Your only investment is time.  Go to Geocities or Angelfire and follow their very simple step-by-step instructions for setting up a website. If you can follow directions, you can put up a website with one of these services. There are plenty of others available, but these two are the best-known. \n\nWhen you're done, be sure to add the address of your website to the signature line on your e-mail. If you have business stationery or other printed literature, put it there as well. It's just about the only way anyone will find your site. \n\nIf you know anyone with a website, ask them nicely if they would mind giving you a link. Unless some other site links to yours, the search engines will never find it. \n\nExpect to grow annoyed with the ads on your site. Free web hosts use pop-up ads, pop-under ads, and banners built-in to your pages in order to pay for their services. If you're not bothered, don't worry about them. Most users eventually grow tired of them.  Don't expect a lot of visitors. Your address will be long and hard to remember, so unless someone is really intent on finding your site, not many folks will visit. \n\nDon't expect to be taken very seriously. If you aren't willing to put any money into your site, don't expect visitors to think you're an authority. \n\nDon't get caught up in design. There's not much you can do to make your free site look great. Just put the basic information up and see whether it does the trick for you. Crazy backgrounds, wild color schemes, lots of pictures, and sounds that play whenever people visit your site will only serve to irritate. Keep it simple. \n\nDon't forget to add content. Since your page probably doesn't look very special, be sure to add things to it often enough that it serves a real purpose. \n\nDon't put your e-mail address on the page. Anywhere. If you do, you'll get so much spam you'll never forgive yourself.  \nWho You Are  What You'll Need to Invest  Do This  Don't Do This  \nI have a lot to say, and I want to blog.  As little as nothing. Some fees may apply, especially as you become more sophisticated. Expect it to become a regular consumer of your time.  Go to Blogger or TypePad or LiveJournal and follow their instructions. \n\nHave something interesting to say, and often. Keep your site fresh. Political campaigns and businesses are starting to realize the power of fresh information posted to people who actively want to follow what's happening directly from the source. \n\nYou may eventually decide to go solo and run your personal site without someone else's software or hosting. When that time comes, use PairNIC to register your domain and Pair Networks to host your site. Their prices are excellent and so is their service.  Don't expect it to be easy. Well-done blogs often absorb lots of their authors' time. \n\nDon't post so often that you create unreasonable expectations. Sandbag a little until you're comfortable with the amount of time you dedicate to your blog. \n\nDon't divulge personal secrets, proprietary information, or national secrets. Serio
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I am a web designer. I looked at your link and yes, I can make your web site like that. I offer different services. Here is my page http://www.myhouseofsorrows.com/bulletin... . \n\nRemember...prices are negociable!!! I am so flexible on prices that you can just tell me what you are willing to pay and I'll roll with that.\n\nContact me if you are interested. My name is Millie and I live in Florida.
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If you want a good graphic designer, you'll have to pay the price. If you want to set a lower price, you will have to accept what you can get for the price.\n\nIf you want a proffessionally designed website, try --\nhttp://mikecox.com/\nor\nhttp://www.finerdesign.com/  \nor\nhttp://www.nrjdesign.com/\n\nIf you'd like to do it yourself, get a copy of "Creating Webpages for Dummies". It is a very informative book and comes with a CD containing several trials of web buiding software.\n\nOr try signing up with Yahoo for your website. They offer a free set of tools for building your site. Yahoo Sitebuilder is quite easy to use.
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Depending on the time, effort, pages, etc..\n\nThat's how I charge clients.  You could easily get 300 dollars for it.\n\nGood luck!
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You need to know your clients. What are the jobs? How many man hours involved? How much will be spent on cleaning supplies. What about liability insurance. Calculate your costs and multiply it by two. Then bid.
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I can design your website for a very small fee... Depending on what type of site you want of course. please email me at my yahoo email account...\ntoxicjuice   at   yahoo. com    < i do it that way to prevent spam bots.
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Most graphic designers have some sort of track record.  Seems to me they should be able to provide samples of what they have already done.  The $100 homepage may be just as effective and just as creative as the $1500 homepage. \n\nBottom line: You are picking a graphic designer who is making your internet face, your homepage.  You should chose a person who is open to your ideas and is willing to exchange ideas, and hash out problems.  Choose one with whom you are comfortable.  Choose a designer who wants your company to be seen in the best possible light--  Someone you feel will work hard to incorporate your company's ideals through your homepage.  Someone who is willing to spend extra time, and dedicate extra effort to complete his task.\n\nIt sounds like you are worried that you will make an offer by email to a top talent and they will decline or won't respond.  How about instead of sending a low offer, if you send an email that says you are very impressed with their talent, but you not sure if you can afford their $1500 demands.  Then, let them respond with a lower offer. Then after you get their lower offer, you respond by praising their creativity, and expertise.  Explain your predicament of being in a cash bind right now, low liquidity, financial assets tied up, etc...and ask if they could possibly consider doing the homepage for $200.  If they don't have another job lined up ahead of you, they will probably take your offer.\n\nYou should be able to professionally, and respectfully haggle over the price, the same way you should be able to haggle over changes and improvements you may want incorporated into your homepage.\n\n\nBy the way, $200 is low.  How do you expect these poor souls to make a living?  Of course, it is better to have a paying job, than to not have one.
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The site looks average and the price is right, but you got me wondering how you can make a profit selling hosting service for $.88 a month.  \n\nI've worked with a number of clients who's hosted sites with various low-cost providers only to have the company go out of business and take their site with them.  When it comes to technology, I think a lot of people think that if it costs more, it must be better and if it seems too good to be true, it usually is.\n\nReading over the site, I see a number of grammatical errors.  This tells me that either 1) the author doesn't speak the language very well or 2) they didn't take the time to proof read the content.  Either way, it doesn't ooze professionalism.\n\nOn the contact us page, it's generally not a good sign when the address at the bottom appears to be a generic ISP account.  Why not at least use use an address such as support@88cent.com?\n\nOn the Platinum page, I find it odd that your portfolio points to pages on the *.1asphost.com domain.  If nothing else, why aren't they hosted by 88cent.com?  If you go to 1asphost.com, they offer a free hosting package which is an even better deal than yours.\n\nThe other thing your site doesn't talk about is what kind of servers you use, if they're in a datacenter or what kind of connection they have to the internet.  For all a user knows, you're hosting it at home over a broadband connection.\n\nJust my $.02.  I wish you all the best for a successful venture!
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You really want to think about the demographics for your website and then figure out what established websites have similar demographics.  If your website is for a general demographic, then you want to think about which demographic would likely respond most favorably to your ad in order to get the most for the price.  If you provide more info about your website content and demographics, then I can offer more info on specific websites to consider.  Good luck!
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well try $5 - $15 a page or or like $10-$15 and hr, \nor call local web host can ask them what that will charge and then go like 30% lower then them :D
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It's all preference.  They're just two different companies.  Dreamweaver has some pre-built code that you can add to your webpages, although frontpage does to --- but they are kind of boring.  Frontpage is a little bit easier to use, in my oppinion.  They both will deliver you the same results though.  I believe that Frontpage might even be cheaper if purchased through ebay.  Do you know how much a website designer can cost you?  I've worked on websites from fortune 1000 companies to one person owned websites and the cost is not cheap.  My company would charge nothing less than 1,000 dollars for a website.  You got to think about the man hours involved.  You have to create graphics, you have to program the site, you have to host the site, buy the domain.  It's not just like slapping it on the internet and there you go.\n\nFrontpage will create any type of webpage you want, html, htm, php, asp, etc.\n\nI would suggest going to w3schools.com and learning HTML.  This could save you a lot of money and time and it is simple to learn.
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I develop web pages for a living. I found it easier to work in this profession using a programming language like PHP together with MYSQL. I like my job, not too much interaction with people. The only hangup is the sitting all day, but if you get a great job, or end up working from home, you can work around that.\n\nWith a little creativity, you can create a website like this one in about 3 days by yourself.\n\nI got a job before I was even out of school. Turned out the guy would have hired me even without my education, because someone like me was in high demand.
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Depending on your experience, as well as your location, you could easily charge as much as 50/hour (or even more, depending on comparable services in your area) or figure out a flat fee based on how much total time you think it would normally take a person to create the brochure. I usually prefer to charge flat fees for short term projects with specific a scope and deadline. I charge hourly for projects where its obvious that the scope will constantly change. \n\nDo a little research about companies that offer the same services you do. Find out what services they offer, what their turn-around time is, how much they charge, etc. Also, look into finding yourself a good template for a contract. Never accept or start any work without everything in writing. \n\nPlease feel free to email me if you have other questions or would like to further discuss. I've been freelancing on and off for over 10 years.