amiga_3k wrote:
Building a site privately is a big end cheaper than professionally. With a professional site build during business-hours you'll have to charge all the hours, that's where my estimate comes from. I know what my boss charges for the work our programmer/consultant delivers: that's in the 120 euro/hour region. If the programming and lay-outing takes 2 weeks, that's 80 hours. This comes to a total of 9600 euro. But to be able to build the site he needs input. Collecting that input means talking to staff of the company. At that moment they can't be productive so their hours need to be taken into account as well. Say he needs to interview people for 8 hours. That's a total of 16 hours to be paid for, 1920 euro. Already 11520 euro spent, and that's without the discussions with the buyer of the site. Those hours need to be calculated as well. The cost for pictures to be taken have not been taken into account either. So... even if the hour-rate could be cut to 60 euro/hour I guess I'm not too much of in real cost.
Sheer madness.
You're talking apples and oranges here.
My company spends over $65,000 per year on anti-spam/spyware software.
Does that mean I should quote someone with spyware a $65,000 bill to clean it off their computer?
Hardly.
What a professional (And I assume quite large scale) company spends on operating and advertising isn't even REMOTELY representative of what a 4 man operation would spend.
Code would be written by the owner or a friend for free or in trade for a 6 pack of beer.
Pictures would be taken by the developer or the developers girlfriend.
The hosting would be budget hosting and domain names are cheap.
Think small business.
Heck, think "Hobbyist"
