If you're first starting out as a freelance Web Designer, you need to think about how much you're going to charge, and how exactly you'll charge. A lot of people have different methods for coming up with their prices, but this is just to get you started. This guide only deals with charging per project. There are other ways of charging clients, but the easiest and perhaps the most widespread method of pricing is per project.
Before you quote a price, you need to take a few things into consideration: first of all, you need to determine what your web design project will contain.
- How many pages will need to be created?
- Are there images and/or design that need to be used, or will they be created as part of the project?
- Is there content for the site, or will that be written by the designer?
- Will there be any Flash, multimedia, programming or scripting required?
- When do your clients want the project completed? The more urgent a project is, the more you can generally charge.
- How much experience do you have? The more Web design experience you have, the more you can charge. Keep in mind, however that if you don't have a lot of Flash experience and that's what your clients want, you shouldn't rely on your six years of HTML coding to increase your prices.
- How much do you want to make?
For example, you might have a project you would love to do, because it would be fun, or interesting or challenging. Your bid might reflect that. On the other hand, you might feel uncomfortable doing a job or would have to do extra work just to complete it, such as if you would have to hire a database programmer to complete the project.
These steps should give you a great start in developing your own freelance pricing guide. You can change pretty much everything in this to work for your needs. These formulas are very simple and very flexible.
One of the advantages, besides the obvious of having a pre-determined pricing guide is that you can change it on the fly.
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