Posted by Michael on 12/20/05 18:21

First of all make a scale of the minimum price that you would ever ask
for and then for the highest (be serious now, no £1 million). Now
think of something that you would do for the minimum price (for example
this could be webdesgning, no dynamic content for a small bussiness
only 5 pages) lets say your minimum price is £50. Now lets say that
you maximum price is £5000 for a heavily interactive website that is
all dynamically generated with php, mysql and javascript, and lets say
for that you will need to write a few thousand lines of code, and make
a CMS that can support news, users, pages, links, search, email,
forums, lets also assume that it will take you about 3 weeks of work.
Now from that depending on how complex and how long you ESTIMATE it
will take, how much extra from scratch coding you have to do, whether
you have to make content for it and whether you will be needed to
maintain it in the future (generally charge more if you wont be needed
to maintain it in the future as that will be another oppertunity to
make money pass). From this using your scale you should be able to
deduce a competitive price for what you are doing. Also look around at
other coders and see what they are charging for the same price.

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