I have a couple people that want me to create and maintain sites for them. One of them will be an ecommerce site backed by a database, but not huge. I have no idea what to charge to first create the site, and then what is a fair monthly fee to maintain it.

Anyone know of what is fair?

fee to maintain a site? hard to say... but if ur just designing da site i myt hav some tips

do you have a contract ? !! if you don't i suggest you to check out this link
http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/contracts/
just to cover us desinger's behind

as for the page u should charge base on the content do u have table or frame and rate differs per page or set a total price for all pages

do it for free! make someone happy hheheheeh!

Originally Posted by SPACEMAN

do it for free! make someone happy hheheheeh!

haha good one !! god knows how many times i've let ppl got away paying nothing

I recently made a web site for the local golf club. It was simple CSS and XHTML, and I charged 600$ CAN. From what I heard from my teachers at school, it wasn't even close to enough. But you gotta start building a portfolio somewhere .

Originally Posted by SPACEMAN

do it for free! make someone happy hheheheeh!

Thanks for the useful reply.

so basically there is no real answer as to what I should charge?

it depends with the design your making, how many hours you put in it, if the coding is hard to do, etc etc etc...

depending how many hours you think it will take? and your hourly rate.

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