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NancyS
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Please help - I'm new to this - 8/22/2008 16:09:25
Hi All: I need some expert advice. I maintain three website at work and have been taken a few evening classes for web design. I would like to know what you think would be a fair price to charge to maintain and clean up an existing website for a professional society. I have been asked to take over a website and I don’t have a clue as to what to charge. I would do the following:
Update pages with new information
Add new pages and update navigation
Remove outdated information
Check for broken external links
Check for ongoing web standards and accessibility compliance
Ongoing search engine optimization
Please help and be kind. It’s Friday. Thanks a bunch. Nancy S from New Jersey
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TexasWebDevelopers
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RE: Please help - I'm new to this - 8/22/2008 16:26:57
This is a collaborative process between you and the professional society. What is the professional society's expectation of cost? What have they been paying (if anything)? How fast are you? Something simple may take a beginner 30 minutes but take an experienced coder 5 minutes. This matters so you can estimate the time you will need to make the changes they request--and bill fairly. Is this an ongoing relationship or a one-off project? If on-going, then perhaps a monthly stipend is in order. If you estimate 15 hours per month (some months being more hours and some less) then a fixed rate fee might be perfect for everyone. What to charge? Well, a fair price for simple web changes is different from state to state and country to country. In Dallas, Texas a fair rate for basic site changes with no design or development is probably $15-20 per hour. But here is where you get to the fairness part. Let's say you agree to a fixed rate of $300 per month (20 hours at $15 per hour) but you find it takes you a great deal more (or less) time to do the work...you must be in a position to easily make adjustments to either the work-load or the cost in order to make it worthwhile for you as you also do your day job--and for the society. After all, they might be able to give you more referral business. Best advice is not to under-charge. There is always more work than is originally indicated.
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RE: Please help - I'm new to this - 8/23/2008 3:30:19
Also depends on your level of knowledge and skill.
You may find it hard to maintain a site that has been created using old techniques (table layouts) as opposed to (hopefully) what you learnt at the evening classes e.g. CSS layouts and accessible design and web standards.
I sometimes find myself turning this sort of job down as it'd just be way too difficult to maintain a horribly nested list plus I'd spend my time nagging them to modernise it and probably make myself unpopular!
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RE: Please help - I'm new to this - 8/23/2008 6:48:11
also if you could post a link to the site it might be easier to comment too. be prepared for such updates as adding a forum, adding a flash header, making a guestbook ... :)
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