how much should you be charged for contract work for ASP programmers? I am in the Southeast. I have a website?
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are we talking classic ASP or ASP.Net? What is their skill level? Beginner/college student, mid-level, senior, architect? The best thing to do is determine what level of performance, security & error handling you need. \n\nIf it's a business site or a place where you are processing sensitive info such as medical records, social secutiy numbers or credit card transactions then you must hire a professional developer. Expect to pay $45-$90/hr for someone in this range.\n\nIf this is more of a personal&#92;fun site such as a family photo album then you might be able to find a college student or entry level developer for as little as $20-$30 an hour.\n\nAnother way to increase/decrease the cost of a project is to add or remove features. Generally, there is a set of "must have" features and "nice to have" features. \n\nAnyone you interview for a given project should be able to provide a written time & cost estimate. Based on that you'll know what you can & cannot afford to include in your project\n\nremember: these are are general guidelines. Your individual situation may warrant higher or lower rates based on the details of your project\n\nBTW - If you'd like an unbiased opinion of any bids you receive on your project feel free to contact me.
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I have been a beta tester for years and I've never seen anyone get paid directly however it is common practice to get a copy of the software at the end of the testing process if you were an active tester so that could be considered payment.
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Pay them on commission of the sales you make or ask them how much they want. No offense but it can be rude telling a girl I want to do you for x amount of money. Im sure there's some kind of standard but... serverbeach accepts adult sites, it's around 150-200 a month and has excellent bandwidth. The rest just required another film man and a lot of endurance.
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Yes.  There's a company that's been around a long time.\n\nhttp://www.elance.com\n\nVery iffy quality for a lot of the work through any of these sites though.  Most of the work is undercut in price, sold as prebuilt components that only sometimes work, and the developers disappear as soon as the final payment goes through.\n\nWhether you're looking for work or looking to hire, you will have a tough time guaranteeing quality before you finalize the contract.\n\nDepending on the scope of the work, you could either hire a student that's just learning, or go with a proven company.  I work for a proven company.  While our rates are more than freelance work, most of our clients have found that we end up cheaper in the end because our estimates are actually met.\n\nGood luck.
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$500 is a good figure to start with.  Depending on the content and amount of work involved, you may want to go up or down on that figure.  Since you are new at this, you may have to compromise a bit on the price in order to get the business and to have this site added to your portfolio of web projects.
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If you're a non-technical person, then chances are you'd have to hire a programmer.  Creating something like Yahoo Answers would be a huge undertaking.  It's basically a web application.  Other kinds of web applications are things like webmail (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, etc.), Google maps, Online calendars, etc.  If your project is totally unique, you definitely won't find any ready-made tools out there to solve the problem for you, you'd need to create it from scratch.  \n\nIf you're technically able, what you need is to choose a hosting platform:  Linux or Windows.  On Linux, you'd be writing the application is PHP, on Windows, you'd be writing in ASP or ASP.NET.  Choice between the two would depend on many things, including:  your budget, your familiarity with Linux vs. Windows servers, programming tools and languages (PHP or ASP). \n\nIf you can't do it yourself and can't afford to pay a programmer to do it, there are a couple of other options:\n\n1) Create a project on SourceForge.net.  SourceForge is an open source software community.  Many developers visit there and lend their skills and abilities to various open source projects.  Create the project, given lots of detail in the description, and then you can "post" a developers-wanted ad on the site, to try and entice others to help you.  The down-side of this procedure is that you couldn't charge for use of the web app, since it's open source, and others could take your code and develop their own  competing web communities.\n\n2)  If your idea is a business venture, go looking for a developer (programmer) and tell him or her that you'd split or give a percentage of the business to him or her.  Then, with your partnetship, you could make it happen.\n\nAs the previous poster suggested, if it's just a forum you're trying to create, phpBB is good, as long as you host on Linux servers.  There are other good forum packages for ASP, but I won't list them here.  However, if you want something customized and different that your typical run-of-the-mill forums, you'd need to create it yourself.\n\n\n\nGood luck!
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i'm a web developer too and i use ASP and SQL Server 2000. i've already attended seminars on .NET and, based on your current proficiency, i think ASP.NET would be the best alternative for now. ASP.NET takes a little getting used to if you're used to the regular ASP programming since you don't code it straight to the HTML/ASP page itself. it's a bit like Visual InterDev and VB combined where you make use of "code-behind". if you want fast results, go for .NET since it has an easy Package and Deploy feature for ASP.NET, making server side and client side setup and configuration much simpler.
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As a rough rule of thumb, if a company wants to charge you for the privilege of registering / working for them, they are not legitimate!\n\nIf I was you I would avoid them, and save yourself the $29.98!
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If its a buddy and its an e-commerce site, 12% commision on sales. To maintain and update and all that stuff is Per Hour Fee. One month might take 1 hour, another might take 15, depends on the traffic,server,setup and alot of variables.
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get in contact with new small businesses in your area and see if they need someone to design their website.. charge them a certain amount per hour you spend working (but dont slack off.. give them their money's worth), and from there they will reccomend you to other people
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I can only speak for myself when I say that $500 isn't a very realistic figure.  If I were to design a site for someone I'd be looking at charging around $75 to $100 an hour so you're not going to get many hours work for $500.  That said, there are people who will charge more or less.  Some will charge per page and others per site.\n\nOne drawback of having someone else design your site is dealing with subsequent maintenance, technical problems etc - if you have to keep calling someone in and they charge each time the costs are soon going to mount up.\n\nIf at all possible, I'd look a designing the site yourself - the basics can easily be done using Front Page or similar.\n\nThere's a huge number of easy to follow sites that can help with flash, style sheets, specific scripts and so on.\n\nGood luck and I hope you manage to get your site sorted.
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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.
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How this even comes down to a dead heat is beyond me.\n\nIf you are going to code in ASP.NET 2.0, use Visual Web Developer Express. Otherwise, there's no contest: Dreamweaver is the vastly superior tool.
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e-mail me the details and let's get to work! I have over 3 years experience in web developemnt and over 15 as a Sr. Software Engineer...
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Will the party requesting the estimate share any historical data with you?\n\nIf it's a legitimate RFP you should be able to get some guidance as to what their previous contract was, what they have budgeted, what their expectqations are or who held the contract previously.\n\nIf it's all brand new, you need to bid a number you can live with if you win the contract, even if that makes you high bidder.  Look carefully at the criteria you are being asked to use to find these sites and how much time you think you will need on average to complete the search.  Then take the hourly wage you want to earn and do the math.\n\nRemeber bad business is bad business...\nThere's no point winning a contract you can't afford to fulfill.