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yes another site critique/ how much should i charge thread
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esthetically the graphics are very well done. Very clean & smooth looking.
however everything strikes me as being very large, I'd scale the buttons and such down as well as adding more to it. It seems like your trying to make a very little bit of content take up a lot of room.
But as I said visually it is appealing in that "do not lick OS X" kinda way.
however everything strikes me as being very large, I'd scale the buttons and such down as well as adding more to it. It seems like your trying to make a very little bit of content take up a lot of room.
But as I said visually it is appealing in that "do not lick OS X" kinda way.
...do you really want your address posted publicly like that??? 
Otherwise, I think the site looks very good (although I would remove the 'title' for you concept television show...not because it's not cool, but just because I think it's a little bit random...)
On the whole, once the portfolio is added, it should be terrific.
I also, however, agree that everything seems a bit large (the buttons and the text) - good job, though
Otherwise, I think the site looks very good (although I would remove the 'title' for you concept television show...not because it's not cool, but just because I think it's a little bit random...)
On the whole, once the portfolio is added, it should be terrific.
I also, however, agree that everything seems a bit large (the buttons and the text) - good job, though
virus1 said:
To be honest, we can't really judge what a 'fair' price would be based on this singular site - you'd need to build up your portfolio a bit more before we could make a fair guess...
...additionally, I see more and more web-designers charging based on the number of pages/features of a particular website, rather than the number of hours they put into constructing the website.
For example, you could charge a minimum of say 50 bucks a site, and than 10-20 dollars for every sub-page after that...or something
It's still pretty "big". And maybe it's the drop shadow, but the circle of the logo doesn't seem to quite match the circle cut-out in the background.
For charging, for simple brochure-ware sites (5-15 pages), I usually estimate around 10 hours as a starting fee + an hour per page. More complex sites, or ones that use trickier stuff like databases and interactive features go up considerably from that.
Is this site for you or are you doing web design for a customer that claims to do web design? The services page is all over the place - offering so many different services I'm left less convinced that they'd actually be really good at any of them.
As to what to put on the front page - how about what they do. Not a bad thing to know up front. As a customer I'd be more interested in knowing that than that you'll be spending time watching Lost when you should be doing my work.
For charging, for simple brochure-ware sites (5-15 pages), I usually estimate around 10 hours as a starting fee + an hour per page. More complex sites, or ones that use trickier stuff like databases and interactive features go up considerably from that.
Is this site for you or are you doing web design for a customer that claims to do web design? The services page is all over the place - offering so many different services I'm left less convinced that they'd actually be really good at any of them.
As to what to put on the front page - how about what they do. Not a bad thing to know up front. As a customer I'd be more interested in knowing that than that you'll be spending time watching Lost when you should be doing my work.
yeah i reset the size because i had to link it to a client and it needed to be working..frankblundt said:
its my site, but i am wondering what to charge for future clients. i see what you mean about the services. a few of those i just did once or twice and really have no experience in, others im improving at.
thanks for the good advice. i think that is the fairest pricing system: just a per hour rate, and estimating on the hours it will take, perhaps using a standard system.
Hey...I know I've already posted in this thread a few times, but I just wanted to comment on the logo...
I really like it. As someone said before, it's very apple-like. Did you design it yourself?
I really like it. As someone said before, it's very apple-like. Did you design it yourself?
virus1 said:ack! *twitches ...
so it looks like the png needs background work and the side bars won't seem to stretch.. any ideas to make them stretch?
yeah, transparent PNG's don't work in IE...I guess M$ thought they would be of too much use to us web people.
virus1 said:ack! *twitches ...
so it looks like the png needs background work and the side bars won't seem to stretch.. any ideas to make them stretch?
You can make IE use PNG's alpha transparency, however it takes javascript to do it.
There's more info about it here.
I'm also unable to view your site - did you take it down?
I could host your site. I will admit right off the bat that I don't have the world's fastest server, but it is reliable.