take a look at what other joomla freelancers are charging and take it from there:<br><a href="http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/by-job/Joomla.html">http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/by-job/Joomla.html</a><br><br>
I have done some Joomla work (I absolutely love joomla - but you already seem sold on it, so i wont gush) for a few places/people in town. I always feel bad charging some of the fees that I have seen on-line (one place wanted to charge $200 to apply a template (!?!)), and wind up going for a cheap hourly rate (these are friends/acquaintances we are talking about here - not just businesses that contacted my for my (cough) expertise). I enjoy the work; and, lets admit, Joomla's not a difficult bit of labor.<br>
<br>that being said, this is what pricing has looked like to me in the past:<br><br>setup (ftp to host, setup mysql, initial config): $100 - $200<br><br>apply a template: $50 - $150 - this should include searching for the right template on site-ground/<a href="http://joomla.de/joomla-templates.com/etc">joomla.de/joomla-templates.com/etc</a>, making sure it's what the customer wants, and tweaking accordingly. If i find myself having to spend more than two hours scrolling through a poorly structured (or in a foreign language) style sheet the price moves towards the high end.<br>
<br>per page cost:<br> copy/paste - $3 - $10/page (should depend on how much work you have to do to make that copy/paste work. one time i had a person email me 10 docx files and tell me they wanted their site to look *exactly* like those documents... colors fonts and all. I felt that i had to include the many email communications in which i told them that this was, in fact, not what they wanted, in the per-page-price).<br>
custom content - can you put a price on the creation of content that you cannot call it your own? some people think you can. I no longer make custom content because I've found that many people don't find my sense of humor appropriate. instead, if they have no content of their own, and still want a full-featured CMS, i use <a href="http://www.lipsum.com">www.lipsum.com</a> for filler (ok,ok - i use the filler initially even if they have their own content; so many people will look at an empty template and fall in love... until they see it filled with words).<br>
graphics - have i spent more time in Photoshop than i have in Firefox? (++ graphics $$) Did i have to touch up every washed out image they gave me? (++ graphics $$) did i have to resize every 1220x900 @ 300dpi images they gave me? (++ graphics $$) did i have to round off the corners of the template they liked? (++ graphics $$). the only graphics i don't consider are when i replace that damned Joomla favicon.<br>
<br>extensions/modules: back to the hourly guessing. how much work did you put in? I've installed Joomla extension that worked as advertised, right out of the box (so to speak). I have also installed extensions/mods that eventually had me editing more PHP than i care to look at in a month... Price goes up. Of course (and sometimes i feel like this makes me look a little unprofessional - but i do it anyway) I always give the customer the option of dropping said extension before i start pulling my hair out (and charging them accordingly) for something that they're not even sure they want.<br>
<br>... and then there's trade<br>prices go all willy-nilly if cash is not involved. My wife has a $2000 tattoo on her leg that was paid for with a ~$300 Joomla site ( <a href="http://www.cynicaltattoos.net">www.cynicaltattoos.net</a> ).<br>
<br>hope this helps some...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Stewart Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:studean@comicnet.net">studean@comicnet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Probably a token hourly charge for support rather than a retainer... Though SEO might warrant a small retainer, if available.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 2/12/2010 9:24 AM, Cameron Purvis wrote:<br>
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I'd like to know this also. Are you going to have ongoing support in<br>
there, aka retainer or hourly revision charges?<br>
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Stewart Dean<<a href="mailto:studean@comicnet.net" target="_blank">studean@comicnet.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Are there any web designers for hire on this list? I've never had to charge<br>
to build a website, so I'm wondering what's reasonable. I'm looking at a<br>
37-page Joomla! site, content to be provided and maintained by the client,<br>
but the designer may have to copy/paste it in place the first time.<br>
"Store-bought" templates are fine, but the template may have to be altered<br>
slightly if it doesn't meet client specification.<br>
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What kind of price and time frame are we looking at here?<br>
<br>
Stu<br>
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