usually, in my quotations as a web designer, i do charge by hour in that i break down steps taken to make the website into logical steps with time.

eg.
Create logo
1. open photoshop - 1 minute
2. open file in directory - 30 seconds
3. create new layer for text - 30 seconds

and so on..

i know it sounds tedious the first time round, but after 2-3 projects you will basically have all the steps in an excel format that you can just copy paste into the quotation complete with total time.

just total out the timing and charge it according to your rate.

eg. your total time for the project is 7 hours, so say your hourly charge is RM85, just 7 times 85 and you will get the charge.

that's how i do it. and my clients can't complain much once they see the long list of steps that i took to make the image/products/website since everything has been detailed out for him.

This post has been edited by technophile: Sep 8 2008, 10:55 PM

have too la. later client complain the charges are not reasonable. plus it helps if they ask for discount. you can just flip over the quotation and show them which step they want to take out, usually none coz all the steps are required to do the thing.


most clients do not know what they are paying for and why the charge we charge them sounds unreasonable (RM1500 for flash website? unreasonable?), thus i use this approach to somehow "teach" them of what kinda things we designers do in order to deliver them their website/product.

so far so good. they will look at you as professionals after that.

This post has been edited by technophile: Sep 8 2008, 11:03 PM

hahaha.. kesian la you your client seems to be bunch of morons.
i've had my share with morons before.
they expect us to work with very limited budget and pay us unreasonable price.

that's where i came to use that system.
saves me a lot of time. plus i have prove (documentation) of things i charge them.

clients have budgets, and so do we.
what i'm doin is in a way teaching clients not to take us (freelance designers) for granted. that's all.

sounds logical to me.