www.coolnite.com could've only costs RM500 for my opinion, mainly because it bleeds a design concepts from the 90s HTML era (those era when Flash does not have AS and people are experimenting with dynamic websites). We don't use splash-screen anymore, it just aint natural. Learn about composition, bro. Dwell into print design as well, it will do you good.

http://shop.kedaisaya.com/ on the other hand, could've cost more than RM800. Way more. Why? Some would say - open source, lousy design template or even free script. The client would've cared less about the free script. If they known about this (and still think they could've put it themselves together, then, god bless them let them try). The truth is, the website delivers its content. I can forgive the simplistic design because the website 'works'. I know what I'm surfing for, what can I look for, and even what can I get. Not all website surfers are CSS purists and PHP loyalists. Oh FTR I also knows how to design (lol) but I hate the fact that people are bleeding colours and embosses just because they know how.

I have been browsing through a hectic 7-page post and here I am, pitching my POVs on the web-design industry. I agreed mostly on etsuko's posts. Most of the clients does not understand the real hardship of getting a good website out.

Why does it always has to have an outrageous price tag? For starters, for those who had their eye on the web-design business; web design is not just about pitching together a funky design to a nicely worked-up CSS.

Its about information engineering. Its about the ingenious way some professionals come up to bring out the information, while at the same time getting a good design up. Its about bringing together the balance between usability of the website with the design of the website. that's hard. not to mention the composition of the website (bringing out the marketing value of the site, which most of us web-designers forgot when we focused too much on the design.) For me, its all about bringing the information up and about, which many amateurs failed at delivering.

Be sure to remember the business side/reason of why a client wants to have a website.

"As far as the client is concerned, the interface IS the product."

This post has been edited by iammagic: Jul 17 2007, 11:40 AM

Wow, etsuke. Simpleet eh, new one? A new initiative name for Websites Made Simple?