Luckily, it's not "can we combine from all and become X".

The correct board is: https://forum.lowyat.net/ServicesNoticeboard

However, I'm in need of moolah *hint hint*. Do message me the details.

Not everyone in need of moolah will expect peanuts ler. Might as well join Fiverr or go look for data entry work. LOL!

The 2 most common ways nowadays are:

A) Pages and functions
B) Man hours


A1. No market rate. It's up to the person to estimate their personal value and/or pricing strategy.

A2. This is a pricing strategy question as well - no fixed practice.

However, domain name and hosting companies normally collect 12-months upfront. Unless it's a premium service - VPS, Dedicated, Co-location, Cloud and others.

Glad to hear this still helps the many enthusiasts thinking of jumping into the industry here.

Average hosting cost can be anywhere between RM50/year to RM360/year for shared Linux hosting.

There isn't a guaranteed way to improve your rating and like what I'd educate my clients today, an SEO exercise is required when they wish to optimize their website. An exercise encompasses everything from analysis, consultation, strategy and action.

Simple questions..

1. Are you giving a custom design or template?

2. How valuable is your time (hourly rate) to you?

3. How many hours would you estimate it'll take you to complete the website?

This should give you an indication of how much you are worth and could charge. Don't be swayed by the "friend price" because business is still business. If they'd like to engage a cheaper alternative, let them. After all, you've already decided how valuable is your time to you.

Hope this gives a glimmer of light to you.

Firstly, congratulations on doing work which your friend wants to pay you

Secondly, do not be afraid to charge him like any other client. Friend is friend, business is business.

Thirdly, there isn't a standard rate. Some fellows charge RM500 (or less), and some charge RM1000++. How you should price your services is the value of your time at the level of experience you're at?

For example; if you're a designer with less than a year experience. Starting with RM10 or 15 per hour is alright. Then when you take into consideration the time utilized to conceptualize, design and etc, you'll get your estimate rate. But don't stop there, think about whether it really pays your bills - utility, petrol and others. If it doesn't, add on a little more before telling him/her what's your price.

Hope this helps.

You can use WooCommerce and a donation plugin. iPay88 works with WooCommerce.

If you meant, "being charged XX,XXX to build a website" then yes. I've quoted clients in those amount of figures before, and it was because their project requirements were such.

By the way, buying a website for XX,XXX and building a website for the same amount are 2 different scenarios.

Unless you elaborate further and become specific of what you're really asking, it's difficult for us to jump in and let you know whether it's been priced fairly or not.

Would you mind writing to me in a PM and I'll see how can I help you..

Interesting. You don't hear many who use the term and may know what content marketing is really. But anyway.. the moment you decided to quit your full-time job to working on your own is yourself telling yourself you will be full-time on your own - no more comfort of having a paycheck at the end of the month.

Passion doesn't pay the bills. Passion is the energy which keeps you interested in what you're doing. When you lose passion, you lose interest and energy in what you're doing.

What would put food on your table are projects. And projects mean business. Business means you either get the job done, or you don't and not do the business anymore.

This is why others dua-kerja. You keep at your work, but work on your side projects because it's out of passion. If you happen to make it sustainable, then you consider to be a business.

What are you looking to accomplish? Divi should be straight forward having a page builder in there.

I've switched from being a full-time freelancer into a business.

If you're a full-time freelancer, you're holding a job. Exception is that your working hours aren't fixed - could be more, could be less.

From my experience, being a freelancer does not mean you do not have job.

Your best place is your family and friends. Spread the word.

If you're looking for quick results, then either (A) you give your services for free (B) you are damn famous © you spend money getting others to know you - advertising / networking events

With the market having too many designers and developers today..

1. What makes you different than the rest ?

2. What's your core expertise, or focus ? UX ? UI ? Frontend ? Backend ? System design?

3. Once you've found your answer to #1 and #2, start creating side projects of your own to demonstrate how are you different (1) and why you're more specialized (2).


The website you've got now communicates that you're looking for a job, not clients. To make it less like you're looking for a job, remove sections like employment and education.

Never do websites for free just because you're starting up. It leaves a bad impression to the industry. Instead, charge a minimum rate which you'd think is worth your time and expertise. Personally, aything below RM500 to me is ridiculous.

I hope this helps.

Setting up the basic forum isn't difficult. But the costly part (if you take LYN as an example) is:

1. Creating a community
2. Modifying forum source code to include functions / features, which may not exist from the basic setup
3. Hiring a team to moderate the forums
4. And when you do get to the size of LYN, sales / marketing people to find / manage advertisers

I hope this gives you a better realistic expectation to possibly re-frame your question.

Then why not start on side projects?

More like we've been relying on FPX ever since it was available.