9 spot-on reader comments to “Web development pricing”

1. Dawud Miracle, on February 7th, 2007 said:

   Thanks David. Really good post. Having been a web designer for close to a decade now, I’m still amazed at the variance in web design pricing. I’m even more amazed at what clients believe is a fair price.

   Luckily, I get little of these days as my reputation as helping clients build their business through their websites is often why I get calls. But not everyone sees the value. And a lot of that is lost in clients understanding the time involved at producing a successful website. Pop’s article does a great job at bringing that through. Thanks for linking to it.

2. Pinksy, on February 7th, 2007 said:

   I’ve done another site recently. Please give some criticism: http://www.saturdaysingers.org.uk/

   Apart from the actual logo top-left (someone else did that, I’m not keen on it), I did the rest. I did it in notepad, with PHP and MySQL, from scratch. I’m working on the content-management side of things at the back end at the moment, but I wondered what thought of the layout etc.

   I’m doing it for free, by the way!!

3. Beth Ellen, on February 7th, 2007 said:

   Good info here. This is an area of genuine interest for me.

4. Pop Stalin, on February 7th, 2007 said:

   Thanks for the link to my article. I didn’t even see yours but you bring up some very good points as well.

5. yagna, on February 8th, 2007 said:

   This is where low-scale outsourcing comes in to help designers like you guys. Imagine if you were to take just your XHTMLising and ship it to India, and we give you code thats validated and cross-browser compatible…low risk and good value. You focus on design(which is very difficult to outsource) and we code at costs that would help you make a decent profit. Everybody’s happy. Production outsourcing for pure designers.

6. Tara: Graphic Design Blog, on July 3rd, 2007 said:

   This is question that really interests me. I am mainly a print based designer, so when I try and design a website I am obviously slower than an experienced web designer. Then I would probably have to pay someone to do the coding. With design for print I have a much better idea as its something I know well. I find it really hard to quote for web work, I guess eventually you just have to grit your teeth take a stab at a price and hope for the best

7. David Airey :: Creative Design ::, on July 3rd, 2007 said:
   Hi everyone,

   Pricing is something that I’m constantly thinking about, and obviously this article only touches on the subject.

   I’m planning a more comprehensive article so stay tuned, and as always, your thoughts are very mcuh appreciated.

8. Amanda Vlahakis, on January 24th, 2008 said:

   Ah brilliant, this is handy, I’m going to link to that from my blog, because very coincidentally today I wrote a bit of a rant on my blog about customers pricing expectations about web development.

   I’m not even a web developer, I’m purely a designer, but still it grates on my nerves when someone wants something like a Monster jobsite for a few hundred quid and get all shirty when people start quoting them in the thousands.

   This person was saying “It’s only a simple job” - how on earth would they know!!! grrrr….I’m still in the rant zone.

   Anyway, thanks :)

   Amanda Vlahakis’s last blog post..Online Businesses On ‘The Cheap’ - RANT

9. David Airey, on January 25th, 2008 said:
   I know how frustrating it can become, Amanda.

   Coming to read your rant now. ;)

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