Unless you want them coming back for months on end asking for changes, tweaks and additional functionality (with no intention of paying extra) then charge them an hourly rate.
By all means give them an estimate/quote based on the number of hours you'd expect it to take based on their original requirements, including one or two rounds of design changes etc. This way when they decide that actually they've changed their mind about the design, layout or suddenly decide they need 5 additional pages you can politely point out that the original time estimate didn't include such things.
This always seems to be a major problem with small businesses who aren't used to dealing with web stuff, or who don't understand how the web works and who generally think they can request changes 2 weeks into a 3 week project without it effecting either the launch date or the price.
RB wrote:Mr.Clark wrote:If you're feeling like a bastard, check out the prices
here and compare them to the quality of the websites.
There's money to be made, if you don't mind going without a soul or conscience...
You think they're bad check the portfolio and own website of
these mongs who wanted £500 to do our company website.
£500 seems very cheap for a full company website. If you think that's expensive, certainly don't look at the company I work for. Our portfolio is admittedly a world away from those two websites, but £500 would only get you around one day of our time.
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