Webdesigners view...

[darrenwis]

Hi.

Before i mislead anyone I need to say i am not yet looking to commit to any deals.

However, I am wondering what the rough price would be for a webdesign company to build a site similar to http://www.checkatrade.com/

Regards,
Darren

[Comspec]

Darren

If I was you I'd talk to Gary at Creospace, this is right up his street.

[integreatmedia]

A site of this scale to be done properly and have all the features that site has? Don't expect any change from £5k plus on-going maintenance etc.

[darrenwis]

Thanks Comspec, I have sent pm.

Integreat Media, thanks also...

[Monica_ChilliApple]

Hi Darren,
My experience of past many years in web designing & development business is helping me tell you that one can't quote a price for a website before we know your exact requirements, reason being there could be somethings which you may find on checkatrade.com but you don't want it on your site or the other way around there could be some features you may need on your site which are not on this site.

We would be happy to quote the right price for you if we may know your needs in a defined way.

If interested, you can chat with me on MSN. My MSN id is monica_chilliapple

Thanks......:)
Monica Wilson
ChilliApple Ltd.

[streetslocal]

Ill be open and on record but we can offer this for for 2K.
And i would be happy to arrange a payment plan for you.

Feel free to PM me with any questions.

[creospace]

Ill be open and on record but we can offer this for for 2K.

Remember there's all the bespoke backend adminstration systems as well.

Breaking the project down a bit you have:

Graphic design
General Front end build
Members area
Scoring engine
Ratings search and display

Back end
Strong back end system structure and workings
Members admin
Site content
Scoring admin to edit scores
Probably statistical data & reporting

It would all be bespoke and all for 2k? Bargain....

[360interactive]

It amazes me that people can be so quick to offer quotes on a simple 'I want it like this' brief.

[darrenwis]

Thanks for the replies...

Ofcourse I would give you a far better spec once my research is done. I haven't really calcualted this to be 5k plus but thats because i'm not an expert.

So, slight change of spec, how much would it be for:

Graphic design
General Front end build
Members area - just so they can log in and comment/rate.
Star rating > say 1-5 stars

Members admin
Site content
Scoring admin to edit scores

Would this still be looking at a few k...

[creospace]

Star rating > say 1-5 stars

A scoring engine is all the programming that goes into making this work, you would want general feedback as well. I don't see the point in a half hearted rating site. You really need to be getting scores and feedback on a range of criteria not just general marks out of 5.

A critical question is 'Would you recommend this driving school to others'.

I speak as someone who has experience with working on websites that rate things :)

[streetslocal]

Yes so a rating system that allows mulitple rating questions and an overall score thats fine.

Yes i would be happy to quote 2k on this.
Take around 20-25 days work so with that in mind it would fall within the 2K budget.

I dont tend to quote upon the actual work i quote on my time so hence the reason i would be happy to do this for 2k.

[streetslocal]

And the funny thing is people will openly critise pricing.

But i wonder why people dont publish there prices.

[David Griffiths]

Yes i would be happy to quote 2k on this.
Take around 20-25 days work so with that in mind it would fall within the 2K budget.

I dont tend to quote upon the actual work i quote on my time so hence the reason i would be happy to do this for 2k.

I can't imagine that many people would be happy to work for £11.42 an hour based on 25 seven hour days. My gardener charges more than that.

[creospace]

And the funny thing is people will openly criticise pricing.

Well in this instance I happen to know what's truly involved in delivering a rating website that works and will be a success. Whilst your price isn't a crazy price by far I don't think that a winning ratings website can be done for that amount. You're right that it's time not money and if someone is prepared to work for £1 hour it could be done even cheaper but then would you rather have a website done by a company with rating website skills or someone who can 'do it' cheaply?

But i wonder why people dont publish there prices.

Because we don't give ball parks as a general rule and we're not in sight of a final brief and spec and then even when we were is it really professional to publish information that is between you and your potential client? No.

If you really want to know a cost i'd say over double up to treble what you're quoting.

[streetslocal]

I would be happy to build this without any issues whatsoever.

And i would be looking towards the 20 day end rather than the 25 days.

2 k is very possible and i would be very sure the customer would be very happy with the site.
And i would be also happy to take a deposit of say £500 and then spread the rest of the payments monthly if the customer wanted that providing it was on our hosted servers.
And it would also come with 6 months free hosting.

[Steve2507]

I've read this with interest and have a word of advice for the op.

People seem to be saying they can't understand how streetslocal can deliver for that price. Have a look at his site. To me it would seem as though most of the work is already done. So he probably wouldn't be creating the back end from scratch which is what others would have to do.

If he was going to build it from scrath then £2K would be too low.

This has good points and bad points. The main positive (for me) is hopefully any problems in the code have already been ironed out so your site would work straight away.

[Esk247]

can you believe someone in whitby came to me with a very similar project...they wanted change from £500 :eek: they couldn't understand why i didn't want to touch it...as said above, streets already has a website thats very similar..its almost a case of copy and paste!:D

[Monica_ChilliApple]

Hi Darren,

I can see it's becoming more of a controversy while we think of quotes. If you are looking forward to get some true figures "PM" me. I will be More than happy to help you.


Cheers......:)

Monica Wilson
ChilliApple Ltd.

[iboxsecurity]

Darren,

Rough pricing as you have seen on this thread and we would quote similar once we have discussed final spec around 4k

[creospace]

Hi Darren,

I can see it's becoming more of a controversy while we think of quotes. If you are looking forward to get some true figures "PM" me. I will be More than happy to help you.

Hi,

Can you tell us what a 'true figure' is? I mean you are in possession of no more information than I or anyone else on this thread and yet you are suggesting you can give an exact quote.

It is also implied that others have given 'fake' quotes. Indeed most figures are ball park, no one hides that fact.

Please explain your wording.

[Monica_ChilliApple]

Hi,

Can you tell us what a 'true figure' is? I mean you are in possession of no more information than I or anyone else on this thread and yet you are suggesting you can give an exact quote.

It is also implied that others have given 'fake' quotes. Indeed most figures are ball park, no one hides that fact.

Please explain your wording.

Hi creospace,

A ball-park figure may have huge differences when compared to final quotes, a true-figure is the one which is competetive, attractive, affordable, and justified as per quality. Moreover, it has lesser price variations to exact quotes.

And, ofcourse i agree that MOST figures are ball park but not ALL. I didn't mean to say that others have given "Fake Figures", in fact i want to say others have given ball park figures.

Thanks
Monica Wilson

[creospace]

competetive, attractive, affordable, and justified as per quality

Hi Monica, thanks for your reply...

But these are all subjective terms, what do they have to do with a 'true' quote. Perhaps all the other quotes albeit ball parks are also competetive, attractive, affordable, and justified as per quality because it's all relative.

Without a spec from the client you can't possibly talk about price variations and exact quotes - nor can anyone else.