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"How much do you charge?"

This is really for web designers only but if you're not, dont worry, just make it up! :)

All I want to know is........

1)How much would you charge for a 10 page website?

2)Whats the most money you've made from building a website for a company or yourself?

3)What is your view on shopping carts? (Thats the website version!)

4)Who designed the Special Reserve website?

This is really for web designers only but if you're not, dont worry, just make it up! :)

All I want to know is........

1)How much would you charge for a 10 page website?

2)Whats the most money you've made from building a website for a company or yourself?

3)What is your view on shopping carts? (Thats the website version!)

4)Who designed the Special Reserve website?

These are my personal answers..........

1)Well it all depends on what the client wants but generally I would charge £50 for the homepage and £25 for each additional page

2)I am currently working on a project for a property company that wants a website of around 30 pages. I have recieved £1000 so far, and am expecting another £500 after a few updates. That would be erm........ £1500

3)I think shopping carts are a great idea for businesses wanting to sell online, but a big downfall is the security of the site. If it hasnt got that little padlock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen I would never buy from the website. As a webdesigner I have never made a website with a shopping cart, I think this is beyond me sligtly (started web designing about a year ago)

4)I havent got a clue, but well done to them. And I bet they got a few smackers for it aswell, considering the amount of pages etc.

Answer to 4. All our web sites are designed in house. We have had numerous programmers in the past but currently just have me and the Webmaster although we are looking for a new programmer.

1) We don't set a fixed price for a site and never copy templates and graphics from our other ones, so it depends on exactly what the client wants in the way of multimedia, graphics, games etc.

2) Heh, couldn't say...not enough.

3) What was question 3? Hang on..Oh, shopping carts. I've not yet created a site with one myself, but it's something I'd like to look in to, as I think that (as long as the data is encrypted) they're the best way of ordering off the net that we've currently got.

http://www.imagics.f2s.com/ website/prices.php

Full price list available there but they are soon to go up.

1)depends on whether I like the customer or not, and how much work has to go into it.

2) no comment, there are Taxmen out there you know.

3) never designed one with a cart although that is something I am looking into.

Ive noticed people have said they havent made websites with shopping carts, but would like to.

Why are shopping carts so hard to do?

Do they cost any money to make?

And do you have any other information you can tell me on them?

Website addresses I can go to would also be appreciated

Thanks

Some people are resistant to make them because if they get something wrong during the coding, it could potentially reveal customer credit card details and other information, which they don't want to be associated with.

There are plenty of solutions available to buy out of the box, but if you definately want to make one yourself, Start with learning some MySQL and PHP from a general help site (webmonkey.com or suchlike), or find a more specialised one on those subjects - I haven't looked in to it myself.

OK, Thanks for the help...

I think I will have to research into it more.....

I'll probably end up paying for it in the end...to save the hassle, and responsibilty if it all goes wrong

Shopping carts are freely available anywhere and some are decent. However, if your are skilled enough (*cough* me *cough*) you can make a perfectly good one out of PHP and a PostgresSQL database. MySQL isn't really good enough, as it doesn't support transactions.