[RESOLVED] How much for an ASP dynamic brochure site

Hi all,

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the most relevant area.

Over the past year I've been hard at work building an ASP website for a business. I am not a coder/programmer I'm just using what I learned in college i.e. Dreamweaver (ASP/VB) connecting to a MS Access database. What I need is a complete quote for the site. I have emailed a few web design companies and have recieved some quotes however the client I am dealing with wants more justification on the amount I'm quoting them.
I am not a professional web designer myself but I have put a lot of work into this site. I am prepared to continue making any minor changes to the site (as required) for the client over the next year and guide them as much as possible. Here is a detailed list of what I have done for them:


Required:

- Hosting (one year)
- Domain registration (€0 ..they are doing this themselves)

A brochure site (ASP) that will show what products are available under what categories.
An admin site (Content Management System) to manage the categories and products.
The site should connect to a database (MS Access) that stores all category and product details.


Brochure site pages:

Home
About us
Products - (select a product category)
Product Categories – (display all products in the selected category briefly)
Products Details – (ability to view more details of selected product)
Contact us – (contact form, queries will go to a specific email address)
Contact Received – (confirmation of query sent from Contact page)
Privacy Policy – (terms and conditions, data confidentiality)


Admin site pages: (CMS)

Login – (login requires specific predetermined username and password)
Manage Categories - (DISPLAY page, ADD page, EDIT page, DELETE page)
Manage Products - (DISPLAY page, ADD page, EDIT page, DELETE page)
(products must be completely customizable)
View ALL uploads – (view all uploaded media to server)
Logout – (logout of admin site with link back to website)


Additional:

Design logo / header for website.
Source and manipulate all additional images on website.
Enable web-stats.
Add other email addresses of the company and set one as the ‘catch all’ and enable auto-responder for email received by visitors.



As it is I have a very good relationship with this client and I would not like it to turn sour. (this is my second ASP site I have built for someone).
I would appreciate if anyone could give me an estimate (complete cost in EUROS) for this type of site.

Many thanks.

I'll move your thread to the General Developer forum so that you can get a better response. The core of your question is that you've created a web application and want to justify your quote or want to know how much an application like this should be quoted for. You just happened to do it in ASP.

Its difficult to price that up based on the information you provide.

From my point of view I charge development by the hour.

I just completed a site very similar to that in about 2 weeks. + 2 weeks testing (I had some designs already so add another 2 weeks for that)and allowing client to input there products before we go live which so far has not had any hitch. But a year? How many hours per day were you working on it?

Hi Pino,

A year ago he asked if I could do it and I said I would give it my best shot. Back then I knew it would take a lot of time and effort as I hadn't built a site before with a proper content management system. A rough estimate would be about 200+ hours spent on the site. (I suppose now that I have the site and CMS working very well at least I can apply the same to another site in the future).

The quotes I already have from web design companies are between €1,500 and €2,500. I suppose these companies already have templates etc. ready to go for these kind of sites. I'm beginning to think the amount of hours I have already spent on this project easily justifies my quote.

I suppose an estimation of cost should have been agreed from day one.

Thank you.

Honestly people in the industry get ALL KINDS of different amounts of money for what they do.

You need to gauge out for yourself what you need to charge, and not ask a group of people what you should charge.

I only say that because you have to take into account your own skill level, and how long it is going to take you to complete the project.

If I could do this project in 10 hours, and you could do this project in 100 hours, should the client pay you more?

You need to decide how much your time is worth, and charge accordingly.

Sometimes you may decide its ok to offset some of your cost because it is also a good learning experience for you, so you don't mind putting in the extra effort because you are gaining knowledge and being paid at the same time.