mattwnz:

nunz:

heavenlywild: Yes, I would want a copywriter, and in terms of graphics, I have everything that's needed, including the logo.

It's really creating a website from scratch, and transferring the revised content from the old site to the new.

I've been quoted $9k. The website would be housed via a CMS where I can go in and make changes and load content. Is this a fair price?

Hell no!!!!!!!

We generally charge aobut 2-2.5k for a CMS based site with workup of design, logos, page layouts etc. That's fully designed and implemented with some training.  If a client wants to go with a premade template we usually charge between 400-1000 depending on what is needed. We also do copy writing, proof reading etc (dont look at my posts - i dont do that stuff <grin>   )

Have seen a lot of shocking figures for very little work thrown around but a straight forward 20 page site should not cost 9000.   do they honestly think it is 2.2 weeks solid work at $100 per hour?

Shane

Would depend on how good the design is, and how much work has gone into it. SOme web design is just plain ugly and cheap looking, so good design and detailing take a lot of time.  Tweaking a responsive website to get it perfomrning well at different screen sizes takes a lot of extra time and testing, vs designing for just a single screen size.