html/css pricing question...
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- TheBlueOne
I had a guy I met at a party, got to chatting, said he might have work for me... and then he sent me 5 pages of photoshop designs with the header and footers the same, but all kinds of wacky column layouts for each page and what would be whacked floated graphics (the guy is primarily a print designer moving into web design)...and asked if I could turn it around in two days for $150 because that's what he pays his "normal girl". I said no way, and then I got into a big argument with a corporate web developer (non-freelance) that $150 is the "going rate" for that level of "monkey work"..am I nuts?
- linearch0
no you are not nuts. do not even concern yourself with that kind of talk......
- Thank you. It's from a corporate guy who doesn't know the freelance market at all...TheBlueOne
- MSTRPLN0
$150/hr ?
- theredmasque0
Not the normal rate at all. At least not where I live.
Students might do it for that though. Maybe that is who they primarily work with.
- designbot0
If the entire design consists of navigation, one graphic, and a couple paragraphs of content per page.....then......well no not even then.
- PSYKHO0
Take care of people who come from a "design" background and want you to make a site for them, they will make a million changes and want shit added all the time, as they know it can be done.
- designbot0
did this developer also do the "designing"?
- No..totally unrelated people...TheBlueOne
- ah, sounded like the type ;)designbot
- hiimerik0
Depends on the client and what drugs you are on.
- BattleAxe0
LOLz @ "normal girl"
- soynutz70
they dont' know what they're talkin about.
- TheBlueOne0
Thanks for the support...thought I was going nuts there for a second...
- ismith0
Is the normal girl his 12 year old daughter?
- harmsie0
$150 for two days work, um.. that works out at £35 a day in old money. Even at a corporate level that is mental... don't touch this work with a barge pole, even if you may get more work from them in future they will always assume you work for cheap.
- TheBlueOne0
I wasn't going to touch the work in the first place..more just staring blankly at my corporate developers friend weird idea of what a freelance html/css should make...
- Faction180
thats whack yo. most web shops charge more than that per hour.
- section_0140
LOL, that's ridiculous.
I often have friends approach me about their relative or whoever that needs a website designed for their business and they can't believe when I quote them my rate(which is well less than most firms). People want websites for nothing. I guess they expect some ridiculous deal when they are talking to a freelancer instead of a firm. I don't know. I've been burned before though doing work for much cheaper than I should have and ended up working tons of hours for nothing. Never again though, take it or leave it is my motto. The only exception is if it looks like you can get a lot of work from the client, then you could come off your rate a little. But, not all the time and now that I think about it, probably not the best idea for your first project with them. Once, I had someone get a quote from me, think it was too much, had some other wanker design a piece of shit site for them, and than ended up going with me anyways. idiots.
- TheBlueOne0
OK, in my ongoing email argument with corporate developer guy he sent me here:
http://www.elance.com/php/search…
And asking why anyone would pay more that $15 an hour for front-end web work?
I'm trying hard not to send him that link with the old gay dancing guys....
- tell him to note that most of the places charging lowball quotes happen to be located in India or the Ukraine. Tell him he's welcome to go there to get his freelance work if he wants it that cheap.theredmasque
- Well, he's a "free market" argument kinda guy...TheBlueOne
- you get what you pay for. simple as that.Faction18
- trooper0
tell hm to use a psd to html conversion service then laugh when he cant work into the code