My company is currently seeking a creative website design artist for a new multi-page site. The website will be targeted to pre/teens/young adults between the ages of 10 and 20. Interested parties may contact me directly at (614) 325-5175.

Thank you,

Bobbie Ziemer

I charge usually 400$+

I think it more depends how many pages the website have. I have setup eCommerce sites for £50+£5 per page/product including SEO and Google Analytics using Complete Website Building and Hosting Solution! Complete Web Page Design FREE 10 DAY TRIAL - www.completewebpages.com. templates. Same time sobody here in Belfast charges £700-£1500 for 5 page website.

What do you mean by a website? Anyone charging in the several hundred range must not be in the business much or are just talking about a design and not an actual build.

The "it depends" plays largely here as well. What kind of functionality are we talking about? There is almost no such thing as a "simple" website anymore. The days of building static HTML pages are gone. Everyone is using some sort of CMS or other DB backed solution which pretty much negates the per-page model of old. If they aren't then they probably should be. If you are just looking for a brochure type of site (you know, "hi here we are"), then get wordpress, buy a template and you are good to go.

To give you an idea, one site I am working on is priced at $16k. DB-backed, user interaction (reviews, voting, comments, etc.), and I came if fairly low because a good friend is the marketing manager there. To have a 'professional' company build this site would have ran closer to 50k-60k.

Webmogul is not building a website, it's web application. Webiste is something that have "Home", "Products", "Services","Contact Us" and "About Me" buttons.
When it goes to product catalogs and online shopping, we are talking about eCommerce solution. I can setup eCommerce operations for few hundred pound including SEO. But then it goes to marketing which will can much more costly.
Building a web application could be $2K-$200K budget, but to use open source code as core could reduce the budget to £1K-$2K.

It can be vary from country to country and site to site.

Since you are talking about webdesign price, I would like to ask where do get clients and how much they pay?

I have experience with mostly DP members - I don't know but most of them go for extremely low prices. At sitepoint is ridiculous competition - entering logo contests there is like a suicide, 50 people competing with you, seriously? I got tired of it so I quit designing and now I am just coding from time to time.

Do you think that freelance sites like designquote and elance are worth the trouble?

well some charge like a $1 for each line of code.

I agree no average price..it depends on the conversation and deal... why do you want to hire a web designer?

I typically charge by the hour and give a basic estimate. It really does depend on what kind of site they want. I typically figure how many hours it will take me and add 10 to my estimate.

That way I'm covered if it takes more, and if it takes less people are happy to have saved some money.

Usually I charge like $35 /hour

It really does depend on what kind of a site you want...If it's simple coding and not to much Photoshop/design then it could be as little as $50 as someone posted. It really just depends...I enjoy photoshop and am learning a bit so I can help you build one for pretty cheap....

Frank

Is Design Biz really lucrative there in america?

If it's a cut and dried job which involves no development... meaning it's just CSS/HTML work... I charge by the hour... and that's only when dealing with other graphic designers or marketing agents which resell my services...

If there is any custom functionality requirements involving JavaScript, Php, or MySQL, then I won't touch the project without a contract... and those won't start for anything less than $1,000.00

If the client requires attention and I smell that they need a cut and dried website with a few commerce or record management frills then I will quote them at $1,500 to $1,000 taking into consideration the needs of the client and their expectation for design.

billing at an hourly rates makes you a contractor... Contracts with thought and attention paid to the project requirements makes you a web designer / developer....

If your selling someone a website for $150.00... your not selling the client anything worth anything... your just collecting a paycheck... and to those clients I steer right over to blogger, myspace, facebook... ect... if they are going to waste my time with a project which is destined to go nowhere... I want no part of it... unless they are a reseller.... then I want to improve the efficiency of project requirement translations for the benefit of both parties..