how much should I charge as a Java freelance developer?
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Do some research and find out the average rate of pay for a freelance developer or consultant.  Then you can decide if you want to charge more, as you are the only one who knows, and your demand is getting higher.  Comes back to supply and demand. You could also charge less if you wanted, or the same.\nPossibly the easiest way would be to ring people in your area, and sorrounding areas, to find out how much they would charge, and how they would charge.  Ie, by the hour, a lump sum figure estimated by calculating how much time will be needed to do it.  If you take less time, you get payed for time you didn't do, if you take more time, you lose and don't get paid for the extended time, unless you place that requirement in the estimate, and make sure you do not take more time than is reasonable to do the job.  That is, don't be lazy, or the company may be able to break the contract with you, and you not get payed, or have to go to court.
45649
There is an amount of money that can be earned by doing web development.   The amount that you can earn depends on what it is that you do.  The different aspects are:\n   - graphic development\n   - page design\n   - basic html coding\n   - complex server-side programming\n   - customization of design templates\n   - selling/reselling hosting services\n   - web site management\nEach of these functions would pay a different amount of money.\n\nSince your question was a little ambiguous I'll have to give you some more.  If you are going to sell something on your own web site then your profit will be based on any advertising revenue or ecommerce revenue generated on your site.
649635
Yes please....how much do you charge?
727977
Well it depends on your level of competence.I have been charged from £30 per hour to £60 per hour.Convert that to euros and double it and you may get a figure!
186971
Probably no more than $2. If you are asking this because you are interested in pursuing this, go for it. That would be cool.
420146
Depends on the website.  I work for a company with over 40 websites and our prices vary by thousands of dollars.  Check with the company hosting the website you are interested and remember that ad pricing is negotiable.
236631
Do freelance work (you get paid better that way anyway)... ScriptLance
211868
That depends on:\n1.The area your in.\n2.If you use your own equipment and products.\n I would call all the services in your area, ask them how they go about bidding on jobs, and how much they charge, (per building, per office, per sq. feet), etc. They don't know if your a customer or not right? \nHere's an excellent website that should give you what you need in inhttp://www.sba.gov/starting_business/startup/guide.htmlfo. and more. Good luck!
931242
I don't know where you're living, but I used to charge $60 / hour. I had a friend who charged around $90. From what I've seen $60 - $120 / hour are within industry standards. You don't want to gouge people, but I think $30 an hour is too low, especially for jobs that involve travel. If you put a high value on your work, others will, too. If you put a low value on your work, others will, too.\n\n[edit: I would have charged about $150 for a 2.5 hour job. My friend would have charged about $225. He used to scold me for charging too little! Of course, this was in central New Jersey, near Princeton, which is a pretty heavy populated, well-off area. I never had any complaints about my rates being unreasonable. If I remember correctly, some of the franchise repair businesses, like Geeks on Call, charge up to $120 an hour. Seriously, I would recommend raising your rates to $45 or $60. If it doesn't work out, you can always lower them again. Best of luck to you!]
389757
Depends on how long it took you, I would charge $60/hr
688993
No that is about the standard price a firm would charge for an ecommerce site. That is because they usually have a team working on it and each member of the team is getting like 25-35 US an hour. It also depends what kind of content is on those pages. Things which are heavy programming required (custom shopping carts, credit card processing, logins etc) do take a bit of time.\n\nIf you have a site that is only like 10 pages or less (which most ecommerce sites are NOT) then you could go with a single developer, but ecommerce sites do run a bit of cash because it is dealing with business logic, transactions, and critical information. For example if you lose data, you could lose a sale of thousands of dollars. \n\nIn short, I would say they are not certainly hosing you, but you might shop around and shave a thousand or two off that price. Again, it depends on what your site will do in those areas, but that is standard price for a firm.
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Hi, Chadder\n\nWe are a team of web developpers in Romania. Take a look on our website www.a3ides.com Our rates are usualy 15 euro's per hour. We could talk tommorrow by skype, yahoo, msn or any other mean that you consider to be fit. \n\nemil@a3ides.com\nThank you \nEmil
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The last proposal I wrote got me a contract of $10,000. Here's how I did it.\n\nI focused on the acronym PAFMOST:\n\nProblem\nApproach\nForesight\nManagement plan (project management)\nOrganization\nStaff assigned\nTechnologies and resources\n\nThe first and most important thing is to clearly define the PROBLEM faced by your client. This is why the initial interview is so important.\n\nThen, you describe your approach to that problem. How you would solve it. This is the solution you offer.\n\nWrite to me at omnidigitalbrain at yahoo dot com and I'll give you the rest of the secrets (no, of course I won't charge you!). Just vote for me. :-)
994487
Without much detail on what you want, I can only give you a general idea of what you'll pay.  That said, you'll probably pay anywhere from $250-$1200.\n\nSome firms will charge you per page with the home page being the most expensive (because the layout design is usually included in this). Recently, I've seen some firms charge as much as $100-150 for each additional page.\n\nPersonally, I wouldn't go that route since each additional page usually doesn't require that much work.
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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.
1126469
I would say posting a price works to your disadvantage. Many self-employed actually undermine their rates thinking they need to undercut to get the business; the reality is that the value of their work is the driving force of their business; pricing is more or less secondary. Its probably better that you use a non-fixed rate depending on variables for each project: customer budget, customer size, customer urgency, number of bidders, your own capacity at that time, estimated project hours, etc... As you mentioned, some customers might think you're too low, others too high - the above variables will differ from project to project. Using variable pricing depending on the scenario will allow you to maximize your earnings.\n\n(Another question is: Would you lose business by not posting your rates? I'd say your work quality is your sales pitch, and pricing can be determined once you assess their needs and those variables) -- happy web designing!
833621
A small business like that doesn't really have any kind of large budget for something like this.  So even though this type of work is worth $40 per hour, these small markets will never pay that.  The only way they can get websites is to get people they know to do it for $15 - $20.  So even though you are worth more, tell them you will do it for less or else you will scare them away.