Going Rate For Simple Website Design?

[ReZourceman]

Whats the going rate to commission an amateur/up and comingy/whatever person to build a very simple website for one?

 

Purely curious, thanks guys.

[Will]

I suppose it depends how simple and how much content you want within. A friend of mine used to freelance doing simple sites for local independant shops and I seem to recall her charging a couple of hundred pounds for each.

[Shorty]

If you're going to make a template, eg one or two pages and just send the psd, without really tailoring to their needs - basically a design that could fit anything and only took you an hour, and you're not going to help code etc etc, £10-50?

 

If you work with a decent company and tailor the design to their needs and it's professional, well I got £450 for my last one, and I probably could've asked for more.

 

Remember, it's not what you know, it's who you know.

[Sarka]

I'd say it depends on how good you are at making good looking sites. Most businesses won't trust young people, especially with little experience. And if you're just using a template, I doubt you'll get very much at all.

 

However, if you make good sites which you make from scratch - £100 to begin with. If people are satisfied and you can get a good portfolio up then you can probably charge more and more.

[ReZourceman]

(To clarify, Im the commissioner, Lol) I attempted to learn how to build sites but I found it rather hard!

[Emasher]

If you're going to make a template, eg one or two pages and just send the psd, without really tailoring to their needs - basically a design that could fit anything and only took you an hour, and you're not going to help code etc etc, £10-50?

 

If you work with a decent company and tailor the design to their needs and it's professional, well I got £450 for my last one, and I probably could've asked for more.

 

Remember, it's not what you know, it's who you know.

 

Why would you make a website using photoshop or did you mean to say .dwt (dreamweaver template)

 

I could do something simple for free or very cheap if you want.

[Jon]

Why would you make a website using photoshop or did you mean to say .dwt (dreamweaver template)

 

I could do something simple for free or very cheap if you want.

 

Because graphics sell websites, not javascript tables.

[Emasher]

Yes but you wouldn't actually make the website in photoshop. Just the graphics.

[ReZourceman]

Ill bear that in mind Emasher, myself and my business partner (Tellyn, Lol) are discussing something, and Ill get back to you soon.

 

Cheers.

[Shorty]

Yes but you wouldn't actually make the website in photoshop. Just the graphics.

When I say template I mean like this: http://www.templatemonster.com/

 

I'm not talking about coding here. You make a flat PNG like one of the ones on that site you can find someone in India to splice it and code it for you for about $10.

[Emasher]

This may sound noobish but is it possible to import a .psd file into dreamweaver that has slices and keep the slices so you don't have to save each slice as a separate image.