Re: Web Design
Originally posted by mrmixx
Well, it is better to charge a flat rate if you know what your're doing that way both sides are happy. If you charge by the hour the other party doesn't know if your jipping them, you could sit there the whole week, and they wouldn't appreciate that.
That's why you have to run on honesty. There is a trust involved. Lets turn the tables on you, what if a guy charges by the hour and is an honest business man and a guy that charges a flat rate (and is honest) are the choices for a client. The hourly rate guy charges $30/hour and the flat rate is $500.
The site takes both men 5 hours total for a QUALITY site that is well put together. Now, is the client going to pay $150 for 5 hours or $500 for five hours. The flat rate is the guy that is jipping the client if you ask me.
Originally posted by mrmixx
Charging by the hour is good, however a flat rate works well also. Why do you say it is so much, A website takes up to two weeks, or one week to make a real quality one.
Mostly every one of my sites are made within one to five days. The process includes a paper sketch, 2+ hours in photoshop digitally sketching, color scheme experimentation, hand writing the HTML into a text-pad program, and then making the graphics. CGI/PHP/etc would come last if used.
Originally posted by mrmixx
Have you looked at how much companies charge for websites.
Not nearly as much as you're charging.
Originally posted by mrmixx
I appreciate your comment however anyone can see that my page looks more than like a 'five minute' site, becuase it has graphics, rollovers, and original art that had to be created.
I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that you spent much time on that. I could make that 5-15 minutes flat. There is nothing special about it. Rollovers are nothing, you could make them in Photoshop in a few seconds.
Originally posted by mrmixx
The only standard font is on the buttons.
I was speaking of the Times Roman font for the text, not the graphics.
Originally posted by mrmixx
As for your comment about the symbol how do you think I created it, first I did sketches then I put it into Illustrator then I put it into photoshop, that is very time consuming.
That symbol did not have to be made in Illustrator. That was the waste of time. You could easily do that in Photoshop within a minute or two.
Originally posted by mrmixx
I don't know how you create web sites, but I couldn't go to any of your links.
Because NetCabins is down at the moment.