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Freelancing: Counting your hours

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    • CommentAuthorbmoseley07
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2006
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    I was just wondering how you guys count your hours. Do you count just coding, or the whole planning process, too. How about meetings with the client? And what is the average amount of time does it take for you to make a site?
    • CommentAuthorPettyRider
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2006
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    You should certainly take into account all aspects of the work process when formulating a quote for a proposal, not just the coding.

    With good communication with the client and solid work flow, I'd say an average-sized site can be completed in a month.
    • CommentAuthorbmoseley07
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2006
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    About how many hours to spend on the project during that month and how many do you charge?
    • CommentAuthorPettyRider
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2006 edited
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    I don't really charge by the hour, so I can't say exactly. If you are going to charge hourly, you just need to sit down and think about the entire project, start to finish, and start adding up hours.

    Actually, I do charge by the hour on smaller jobs. Here's how I broke down a quote just recently.

    Database Design: 1 hr
    Coding: 6 hrs
    Templates: 4 hrs
    Testing: 2 hrs
    Implementation into current site: 2 hrs


    Try to break it down as much as possible, and don't forget important steps, like testing.
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    Well if it yours primary income and you work on hourly basis.
    You should count everything HTML,programming, design, meeting, answering email
    It's all your time you spending on a project. Also using one hourly rate makes things little bit easy as far as accounting part. In case you do project on a bid basis then you need make sure to include couple more hours in estimate.
    Since it's only an estimate it's good to have some indication that estimate accurate within 10%. Then in case you have extra hours you can always come back to client with new invoice to the extra hours.

    Best, DS

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