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WEBSITE PROJECT COST -- Please help me determine price!

AngEyes18 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:20:15 GMT

Hey Everyone - I am completely new to this forum, so I hope I am not violating any rules by asking this question. I have been asked to create a website for a medium sized business, and have absolutely NO idea what to charge. This is the first website that I will have designed for a client. Can you all help me determine a price?

MY EXPERIENCE - I have never been to school for web design or any design for that matter. I have built 5-6 websites, including a large e-commerce website for a family member of about 400 pages, however all the experience I have is from creation of my own personal sites, until now. Im located in Peoria, ILLINOIS

WHAT I KNOW - The company is on a budget and hiring me because they know I am experienced, but do not have the formal skill set that students or professionals would have. So I know they expect my quote to come in lower. They want this quoted AS A JOB. Not hourly. However my intention is to figure out how many hours I think I need to complete the job and multiply it by an hourly rate to end up with an overall job cost. This is a ground up design, NOT a redesign.

SPECIFICATIONS -
- HTML, CSS, JAVA Script coding.
- The site will be roughly 60 pages.
- It will utilize a CMS.
- 3 initial layout options to choose from
- 6 custom company logo options to choose from (I have been asked to create the new company logos from the client)
- 40 images of royalty- free stock images
- Custom editing of website images and 2 revisions to each custom edited photo (Photoshop editing)
- Some custom graphic work (estimated at about 15 hours)
- 9 meetings with the client to discuss project, plan, implement, discuss content etc.
- Light SEO including search engine submission, Naturalized SEO, and other simple SEO techniques
- 4 week free maintenance period for problems pertaining to code only.

Because I have so much to learn regarding this site, and because it is rather large, I have estimated it to take me around 250 hours. Does that sound ridiculous!?!

I need so much help! I dont want to sell my soul and way undercut myself, but I dont want to be overpriced for my skill set either. CAN YOU GUYS HELP!!??? Give me an idea of what you think is a reasonable amount for this job?

Some kind of image scroller , fader thingy...

lynxus — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:25:30 GMT

Hi guys,

Im looking for some king of JS script or similar that can fade in and out images.

I want to have a small box of "Partners" with they small logos that fade in and out..

Does anyone know of somthing that will do this?

Im not having much luck with google..
Maybe im just not searching for what i want properly

-G

Owning the code

littlemoomin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:46:11 GMT

Hi,

I'm the process of talking to various web developers for a site that I'm getting made. One of them mentioned that I would 'own the code', what exactly does this mean and what would be the difference if I didn't own the code. I would assume it would be better to own the code so you could make changes if you wanted to or take it to another web designer in the future to make alterations.

It's a CMS based site so for me to own the code would the developer have to create a bespoke CMS? I asked another developer and they said that I couldn't own the code as it was their CMS that they had developed themselves.

Can anyone help me to understand this properly? Thanks =)

Has anyone tried Mycroburst for design jobs ?

Ibn Saeed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:32:12 GMT

Hello

I was searching for a Logo Designer on google and stumbled upon this site

http://www.mycroburst.com/

Does anyone have any experience with them ?

It works by someone posting for a custom Logo or website design etc. and then selects a payout. Then 50+ Designers create their own versions of the logo one requires and the client can then select which ever he likes.

Creating Contact Forms

DudrFella — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:39:17 GMT

Im using Freeway Pro. Im tyring to build a contact form using a table and Im having one or two problems.

I have 3 sections: name, tel, message. I gave the message section a greater height than the other two sections, so you could write a long message. But when I type, it just scrolls off to the right instead of returning to the next line. Can anyone help?

I hope I explained it well?

Here's a link:

http://www.therightcateringcompany.com/contactus.html

Designers Block?

Devious — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:08:25 GMT

What do you do when you wake up one day and all the sudden your designs have gone to crap and you are left uninspired?

PHP Messaging Script Ideas?

Dillon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:56:46 GMT

Hello, I am looking for a php messaging script, one that allows a user to send a message to another user, and them having an inbox. I am looking for one that is similar to the kind on a forum. With allowing to click on a member, and send them a message. I am new with MySQL and PHP, so I wasn't sure how to do this in the database. How could I do this, or is there any pre made scripts that I could integrate into my website? Thanks for any help!

-Dillon

2009/2010 Trend for Ecommerce Web Design

Ibn Saeed — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:10:44 GMT

Hello

Can anyone suggest new trends for ecommerce site.

Can anyone list any examples websites to check.

Should it be simple, minimalistic ? or filled with graphics etc?

How to make this

NakedFury — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:53:13 GMT

Hello. Im taking a class with a professor that has zero knowledge of website coding but acts like he knows. It sucks. We use Frontpage. We are doing a test website as the final proyect/exam.

I wanted to include a feature idea from a site I frequently visit. It is a window that has new articles and changes between them every few seconds. at the bottom of that window are icons for the other articles that when clicked show the article with a mini summary and if I click that article then in brings me to the full news.

I don't know If I should post the site but I want people to see it so they can help me answer this question.

www.mmorpg.com

Need help with the table problem

alexx — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:29:41 GMT

I have a table problem where in table (A) and any tables under gets longer, links and content in table (B ) doesn't stay aligned to top, the whole content in table (B) and any others appears away from the top, even in the middle so the top part becomes blank

I'd like the content in A as well as B stay on the top and no blank spaces appear on the top of them

I'll appreciate any quick fix for this issue

kind regards

Here's the problematic table I have

Quote:

Need input on designing a blog

bswinnerton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:53:08 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm designing a blog from scratch using PHP & MySQL. On the front page I have something like the following:

I was wondering everyone's input on how the best way to design the website. Right now I have a folder called include where I have stored the header files with variables for the title of the page, and a config file where all of the variables are stored, and a footer file where the bottom is placed. My index.php page is just div tags where I have mysql queries to pull the data.

But the only thing is, I find it very difficult to try and design the pages with html because once I place them in php I have to do an echo"" command and have \", which in turn doesn't allow dreamweaver to display any of the content.

So I guess what I'm asking is.. Is this a good design? Or should I stay away from includes, etc.

Using free templates safe?

virtualmisc — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:28:41 GMT

Hello
I am planning to create a new website.
I was thinking of using free templates.
Heard a lot of reviews that they are not safe.
Is is true?
Someone please advice me on this.
Thanks

Best Way to Convert Site into French

jj1 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:07:19 GMT

I have a French Chateau site that I did a couple of years ago for an English couple targetting other English tourists - the site is at the top of Google for most English keywords. They now want to keep the English version but also have an additional French version of the same site to attract French customers.

What is the best way to achieve this? - the budget will be minimal!!

Do I need to recreate each page with French keywords in the urls and French keywords in the alt text etc and a French translation of the content? Or will this get the pages dumped into the supplemental because of duplicate content?

Also, is there some form of programme that will do things for you?

Would appreciate any advice as this is all new to me.

Attempting to create linked layers for employee biography's

PhysAssist — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:49:46 GMT

We are creating biography pages for our employees, I have a general idea of how I want the pages to look. I thought it would be a waste of time to create a new page for each employee. I would like create layers so that when an employees picture is clicked, a semi transparent layer appears with the picture plus a formatted biography paragraph.

What is the best language to use for this type of action? All my pages are php based. Here is a picture of my idea, please critique my photo if this is impossible.

Free Web Portal software?

MrVon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:02:37 GMT

Hi guy ordered to make site, about books, but he don't know what to put there yet. He asks to be able to login to the site and then add and manage articles himself, and also probably store functionality. By the way he speak about it i get idea that he is newbie in Internet.

Can you suggest free web portal software (except Joomla) that i can use as base for web site the only requirements is Free and Simple Enough to administer by newbie.

Recommendations for a CMS for a school district?

JoeyHogan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:28:12 GMT

Hi Everyone!

I work as one of the techs for a large school district, and my boss decided that we should migrate our site over to a CMS system (currently, we use Contribute, which has been only a pain). I've been doing some research, but haven't found one that best suits our needs. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a CMS that met these requirements?

1) Good organizational/menu structure - our current site has between 200 and 300 pages, so we need a CMS that is capible of generating good, easy to navigate menus.

2) Multi-editor support - we'll have a number of people or so editing various pages on the site, so we need a CMS that offers permissions control so that we can determine who gets to edit what page. We don't want someone from the high school editing pages for an elementary school.

3) Cheap, if not free/open source - we're a public school district, we don't have money :)

If anyone knew a system that met those requirements, I would be most grateful to hear about it. We're not too picky about what language it runs (PHP, ASP.net, Java, etc), as we plan on setting up a new webserver for this site, and we'll just get one that will support the CMS.

Spry Tabbed Panel, Want to add a Click "next" button, how?

TheDon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:02:56 GMT

Hi,
I have a spry tabbed panel as below with 4 events for each month as that is all I can fit, Is there a way to maybe put a next button on the bottom of each month that can display the next 4 events? Does that make sense?

Need help on high school project - Bus reservation system

Damager56 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:19:02 GMT

Hi everyone,
I am new to this forum and a novice in web design.
I would like to ask for some guidance from the experts here.
I want to build a site that will allow people to make reservation for a bus service.
I am doing this for a school project that I would like to work on for this semester.
I don't know how many ways there are to do this. So I need some suggestions telling me where to look and what I will need to complete such a project.

Just how will I collect the information from the user? I can do a form that sends me emails, but are there some better ways to approach this?

Sorry if this sounds very noob
Any help will be much appreciated,
Thank you in advance!
Edward

(visual website built with frames) How to have descriptive text for google search

Irish21 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:14:13 GMT

Hello all,

I build my own sites and they are definitely not top of the line. I know I should learn css, not use frames or tables but I fail on all counts. But for what I use them for they work well enough. That being said I have a problem, when my site is listed by google it has no descriptive text just the title. I don't want to show text on the site since because it won't fit in with with the look of the site but I also don't want to cheat (for example text the same color as the back ground or size set to 0). All I want to ad is a simple honest description of my site to show up in google but can't find a way. Any help would be great! Thank you all for your time.

Full-size browser backgrounds?

Madman340 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:14:26 GMT

Alright. I am going to be making a personal profile for myself, and I want to use a full-size background, probably 1920x1200 backgrounds. But I also have some slightly smaller ones that I want to include, and I was wondering how people that have done this deal with monitors that are larger than the wallpaper size... So how do they?

If not tables then what else can you use for layout?

TheDon — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:06:05 GMT

I have read table layouts not being a good choice for a website design as it is slower and problems can occur easilty.
My website is http://www.thai-discovery.com and my whole layout is just a big table with a few rows and columns.

If not table, what else would be good to use? I have tried the frames in DW CS3 and they just seem weird.

Any idea's? Or do I need to learn how thr frames work?

Nice box to put text links into

TheDon — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:54:02 GMT

Hi,
On my site I have been making a table with 1 row, 1 column for a few text links (as you can see below), it kind of looks boring to me. Can someone give me some tips, what tools or extensions I cab download or buy?

Wordpress Theme like ...

Toon_c — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:46:18 GMT

Hi everyone ..

Did you ever came across a WP theme that looks like http://health.yahoo.com/
I'm speaking about a theme that contains somethin like this JS Guide .. this one

Free or premium , doesn't matter ..

I'll be really thankful.

Image/banner roation script

twiggy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:27:37 GMT

Hi doe's anyone know where I can get a free image/banner rotation script?

I want one similar to what http://www.ebuyer.com/ are currently using, it rotates between 4 images but user can also switch between them using small buttons at the bottom. I want the images/banner to also link to another page.

need a game that users can play and win a prize

naghma — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:38:47 GMT

Hi all,
My co. wants to have a game (like a slot machine) on our site which will allow users to play a limited number of times for their chance to win a prize. We want to be able to get their name and email address in order to limit the number of times they play, as well as to keep track of who wins. I've been asked to find out if such a game already exists that we can put on our site--i.e., they want it for free. Does anyone know of such a thing? Thanks.

Text below my spry tabbed panel is below in browser, but in DW it is on the right

TheDon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:52:19 GMT

Ok, pretty much what I have said in the topic. The tabbed panel looks ok in the browser, but in dreamweaver the text under the tabbed panel is not below it, it is to the right UNDER the right column and therefore I can not even see 99% of it. Also I can not click on anythin in the right column, I have a few banner that I want to change but they just don't respond.
If you need to see the code, it is http://www.thai-discovery.com

Thanks

I have circled it on the right hand side.

Recommend wysiwyg software?

kustomkb — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:34:09 GMT

I have no website design experience other than playing with frontpage.

Could someone recommend some design software.

I just want a basic photo gallery type webpage to showcase my work and
possibly in the future add an area where I could sell plans for my projects.

Thanks for your time.

Kevin.

Should I add product pictures to my site?

bige2533 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:16:14 GMT

I'm still working on getting all the hiking and biking trail designs completed before I start to advertise for the site in my sig. As you can see, I still have a lot to add. Would it be beneficial to add pictures of the stickers on cars, biking helmets, folders, backpacks, etc and put them on the homepage?

Want arrows on sub menu so people will know there is a sub menu

TheDon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:09:44 GMT

Hi,
I have a vertical menu which I have been working on on my site http://www.thai-discovery.com/

for the shopping menu which has submenu's in it, it does not show a arrow on the right side of the box to show it has submenu's. I hope I am explaining this correctly.

And yes I know my style codes need work. But I really want thmy spry menu to have the arrows on the right side of the box.

Any experts out here?

contract for building a website for someone?

soaplady — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:09:56 GMT

I have built personal sites before, but now I am building one for a fee and need a navigational outline and contract explaing what I will do, what is included in my price (shell, contect, photography, logos/ graphics, 2 hours revisions and additional cost for more, etc). I can do one myself on Word, but wantit to look professional. Is there somewhere to find a basic template for this that I can personalize? I have looked here on the forum and around the net but haven't found anything yet. Does anyone have something they could email me, or lead me to where I could find one?

Thank you so much!

What kind of images suggest me

graphicweb — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:51:23 GMT

Hi i am working as a Web Designer in Chennai.. Now am designing a website related to a shop selling salwar and kameez via online shopping cart.. any one can tell me what kind of image that i include this in website..

Is there an online Latin translator?

TWD — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:15:23 GMT

Sounds like a funny request I know.

But I thought this would be an easy way
to generate Loren Ipsum text for other language websites.

Lets say it is for a Chinese website.

Wouldn't it be nice to spit out Loren Ipsum / translate to Chinese
(via English if need be)?

Fashion Journalism student needs your help!

lucie-blue — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:09:15 GMT

Hi,

I have just applied at one of the top creative arts universities in the UK in Fashion Journalism, and am looking to build up a portfolio in the form of an online blog. I currently have a blog (atasteofvogue.blogspot.com), but im wanting to make it look more professional. I have spent the last three days trying to get it to look something more like this http://lisaslikes.blogspot.com/ (with lisas permission), but with severe lack of web design skills im having real problems.

Is there any kind souls out there that are willing to spare an hour or two to help try and set something up for me? It would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
Lucie :2sm

What should the domain name of your portfolio be?

Mander — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:18:57 GMT

I'm about to buy a domain for my portfolio but im not sure if i should do my name as a domain, come up with a company sounding name?

what are some examples and what have you picked for your portfolio?

Online Credit Card payments on your website

TheDon — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:28:28 GMT

Hi,
Does anyone have any recommendations with any software that can take credit card payments, I have a Paypal service, but would also like to have a service for credit cards as not everyone have paypal.

Thanks

Question about Cellphone Optimization for complex sites

TikkiBoom — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:32:04 GMT

Question about getting our company website to work properly on Cellphone/mobile devices.

I recently over took a graphic design position that also entails "taking over the webmaster seat." (Aka, I didn't know I was to be the webmaster, but looky me, here I am). While I have experience in web design and site management, I am completely self taught, and have only freelanced, and not worked in a corporate environment with it.

Anyways, the guy before me had recently "overhauled" the entire website. For code and back end scripting (sorry if I am using these terms where I shouldn't) ie. Login, is concerned, we do have a CF developer.
The guy who re-created the website (then left) created dreamweaver templates for each area of the site. For some reason, if I try to access the site through my boss' blackberry, it hangs in loading, and never loads (well, I only waited about 20 mins, you never know :) . We are a pretty big company and have several other sites, so I checked them as well, and they load fine. As all the sites use CF, HTML, and CSS, the only difference I see in why the site might not work on the blackberry (and other devices we've tried) is because of the templates.

So, does anyone know if my theory is correct, and/or if there is something we can do about this? My CEO has now appointed this as my job to fix this. :readrules

How do you check your sites

afcbob — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:47:24 GMT

I was thinking how does everyone check there design for all browsers and screen res. I manually check for this but was think how do you all do it.

Plz. help to do it in dreamweaver

Liza New — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:38:45 GMT

Hi Friends!
I wish to divide navigation bar (of my first link site of my signature) having 250 links "Home & Kitchen Appliances" in different categories. Touching mouse on Bar link can open down that categories links window.
Plz. help to do it in dreamweaver :funnyup

How to display text on image rollover

SciA — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:54:16 GMT

What's up board members. I am in the process of designing a business directory for a local street in my area. On the homepage I want to have a 200x200 image of each businesses storefront. When a user highlights over a specified image I want to display the Business Name / Address / and Phone number. What is the best way to go about making this happen?