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Hiya,

Pricing is really totally up to you. For long projects people tend to
work the hourly rate and extrapolate but for smaller projects that you
know really aren't going to take a while you can just pick a price
based on what you think it's worth. That's why a lot of web design
companies don't list specific prices. You can charge a large company
10x what you'll charge a small company if you believe you have a
really good product.

I would never offer lifetime free ammendments for an increase in
markup as someone else mentioned. You never know what's around the
corner and people will try and squeeze everything they can out of you.
For ammendments just set a price for current customers based on a
reasonable hourly rate. But if they require ammendments then sell them
a CMS. Just grab a good open source CMS and charge maybe £250-£400 for
installation/configuration on top of your design.


Also, I take it you're doing both the design and CSS for the pages? A
typical mid-level company charges about £800-£1000(outside of London
anyway) for a site. That's usually a typical sized company website.
5-8 CSS'd pages + artwork. You mention 20 pages, but I'd be surprised
if it was 20 totally differently marked up pages, ie different styles.

If it were me my price would depend on the company. If it were a
company I liked and were giving me good long term backend projects I'd
offer them design/css at cost price otherwise I'd just pick the price
based on the size of the company. That's cheeky but that's what's
happens often for bespoke products and so it should. A big company
probably wouldn't go for your product if it was cheap. Cheap implies
nasty etc.


Have fun :-)



Jeff


2008/4/30 David Elliott <david at elliott.uk.com>:
> Hello Underscore,
>
>  I am a bit out of my league here.
>
>  I usually make multi lingual database driven web sites that take months to
>  write, and are on a time and materials basis.
>
>  I am being increasing asked to make small (20 page or less) static websites.
>
>  How much do you charge for such a beast?
>
>  --
>  Best regards,
>   David                          mailto:david at elliott.uk.com
>
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