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Posted by Matt Motamedi
Matt Motamedi
6,709 Points

Creating a website for client/small buisness

I had a few questions about setting up a website for someone/small business if or once I start to decide I am able to do such a thing on my own.

  1. Ive read alot of mixed reviews about whether or not the person making the website should also provide the hosting and purchase the domain, what would be a general consensus on that? (I would most likely open a shared hosting account to do this if I were to do it on my own I think)

  2. If you were to have say a shared account for hosting in which you want to host a couple sites for a small local business, how much technical no-how must one know in order to keep it up? I cant imagine a website for a business that requires next to no updating (other than to get its information out there) would need that much "technical support" for someone that knows nothing about tech support for hosting, is it an awful idea to even offer to host?

  3. What do people generally charge for besides the actual creation of the website? What are fair prices for the type of website I mentioned (ex. a small business that just wants to put their info out there but does not require much updating.)?

Thanks :)

3 Answers

David Branda
David Branda
1,889 Points
David Branda
David Branda
1,889 Points

Any business worth their salt is going to want to ultimately own their domain and web hosting independent of the designer.

If you have a client who's hand you really have to hold, I would offer to set everything up and purchase the space and domain on their behalf, and when the project is over turn all the documentation/usernames/passwords/control over to them.

kirkbyo
kirkbyo
15,791 Points
kirkbyo
kirkbyo
15,791 Points

Hi Matt,

I would personally do what David suggested and set up the hosting for the business and then turn over all information about the account. If you would like to go the route of setting up your own hosting, you do not need much technical know-how because it is pretty straight forward, if you do encounter a problem or having trouble with the hosting most of these sites have great customer support to help you out.

Knowing what to charge for a website is hard because you wanna get paid for the time you spent on the website and the quality of work. I have included an article to maybe help you

http://www.sitepoint.com/series/how-to-charge/

I hope this helped,

Ozzie

Matt Motamedi
Matt Motamedi
6,709 Points
Matt Motamedi
Matt Motamedi
6,709 Points

thanks for the help :)