Well, I think the most important factor is how good are you? If you
produce a website like this:
http://www.lakesidechurchofchrist.com/
Then charge $99 for the whole thing. Actually, don't do it at all
because you'd be doing a disservice to the church. However, if you
produce something like this:
Then you can charge considerably more. However, unless you make the
site with some way for the church staff to make updates to their own
site, you'll be forever plagued with people calling you to change this
and that. You will most likely end up severing ties with them on bad
terms... trust me, I know this from experience. I've done many, many
websites for churches and youth groups. Before the age of great content
management systems, you had to know HTML to update a website, therefore,
they had to call me to update that the "yearly church picnic is
scheduled this month", etc.. . Now, anyone who knows how to use Yahoo
mail, or Hotmail can handle updating a website that has a good CMS
installed.
I have settled on customized installs of GeekLog (www.geeklog.net)
It's got an awesome calendar system and the church can submit articles
(just like a user of Slashdot would) and it will update their home
page. Stay away from animations, flash, java apps, and all other
gimmicky things. Just install a CMS, apply and modify a good theme,
slap their logo on the menu headers and let them add the content. Put
their static information like service times and address/directions in
blocks on the side and you're done. Make sure they have sufficient
rights to update, but not enough to screw it up.
Hope that helps.
Russell Hires wrote:
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>Okay, so it doesn't matter if it's a church. What is a good hourly rate? Do I
>want to charge per unit sold (such as, per page, or per type of thing that is
>done) instead of an hourly rate? I don't have a clue about how an independent
>person works this out.
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>>Bill
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