OT:What do you think is a reasonable amount to ask for Web Design/Development(here in Nepal) ?

[suVasH.....]

Hey there Guys !

yeah, most of u must already be thinking "Not again !" by the time you are reading this, well if not please continue, else you could still read from the following line ( hehe, only trying to be funny here )

Well, previously i thought it might not be gr8 idea to begin this thread but then i decided to be a little bold(:D) and put forward this question (maybe again) to our community. ( and i'm not even sure if this should have been an offtopic thread )

Considering that you are/have been doing >serious< web design / web development (or maybe thinking to begin) , it would be great if ideas could be shared about how do you come to the decision about making the final quotation on the project ?

( and please i'm asking SERIOUS web design/development, by which i mean not a first-time or fun project )
 
I would also like to clarify some reasons for me putting up this question.

The first reason is that i've seen a lot of discrepancies in the price regarding web design/development here in our country. I guess it must be the same everywhere else, but then still we've a lot of startup companies here charging really less, and then big houses who then have a really posh menu for all the items they do.
Yeah, i do believe that there must be some kind of quality thing on those big houses, but maybe not that much ( well i say that because i've seen how things happen when deadlines come hissing around your shoulders )

The other reason i'm putting up this question is that recently when i had to give my views regarding this same subject to a friend, i found myself in a really difficult situation, but then i escaped the easy way, i said " Ummmmmmmmm..... well, it depends ! " , hehe

There also might a other reasons which i am not remembering right now as i type this, bu then still the question is

  " How would/do you charge ? "
   
Well, i know, "it depends......" on the type ( eg Static vs Dynamic, complexity of the database to be handled, target group etc etc )

But then it would be really great if everyone would put their personal opinions here( as a developer/designer who has to make money, yeah money i say ! ), and yes ! you could even elaborate it with classifications please ! 

It would be really interesting to see our market figures being discussed here, and maybe this discussion could also help some people who are out there confused/intimidated to directly ask for a standard figure. ( Yeah, for the least it surely will help me, though i've doing this for quite a while , hehe )

Well, It begins now, throw me some stones...... :)

[Safar Pokharel]

Ya, i say to those questions, "starting from 5000 Rs upto 100000, but it depends......, see www.idealab.com.np "

 

Safar

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[suVasH.....]

that wasn't the kind of reply i was expecting ( i always knew how to count )

thanks anyway

Cheers

[sanjeev shrestha]

I too face these problems quite often. To remedy this, the easiest way I have discovered is calculating the hours of work needed for the project. The hours needed itself will calculate the complexity of project. If there are huge complex database handling, the hours need to design is obviously more. With this hours of work, I assign the metrics like personal expertise and rate of that expertise and other factors. The rate is different for different people having different expertise. A people with sound knowledge can solve a problem in an hour where it can take 2-3 days to others with less knowledge. The range is $2 to $16 per hour for project. These are dependent on the people in the team.  Also you need to see the time constraints. To be on safe side, I generally assign one and half times the hours calculated as above. This is my opinion on calculating budget. All the COCOMO model fails here. he he he. But it is savior most of the times but sometimes due to wrong estimation you can really be in trouble... (Be aware)

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the DEVIL