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- Claymantis
a simple 1 page contact form, that sends an email to the client with all the captured data?
What would you charge?
- lifeindev0
1. What are you worth hourly?
2. How long do you estimate it will take to complete?
3. Multiply answers from 1 & 2 together for ballpark
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!
- utopian0
500 bucks, call it day...
- vaxorcist0
This SHOULD be easy, but there's also an "also can you do x" factor.. make sure your estimate says exactly what it does.
Make sure that if the client takes extra time to send you the text for "intro page", "thank-you email" and "thank you page" then you get to take extra time to finish it, and if they change this text more than twice, estimate goes up by $x / hour. This burned me once, as they kept changing shit...
- boobs0
Don't forget that on any project, even though the actual work of coding the thing may only take a bit of time, communicating with the client to take care of all the wee details can take almost endless amounts of time. And you need to be paid for that time, too.
The other day I did about the tiniest "project" imaginable: literally adding a link to a page. But by the time I went back and forth with the client about where they wanted the link, and exactly what they wanted it to say, etc., nearly 2 full hours of my time had been used up. And then they wonder why I have to charge some much for "something that only takes me 5 minutes."