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Posted by Richard Hope
Richard Hope
25,237 Points

To anyone working in front-end development

What sort of timescales do you work to for given piece of work? I understand this may be difficult to answer but if you have any examples of work you've done and how long it has taken it would help me understand where I am in terms of skill level.

1 Answer

Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 Points
Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 Points

I work in frontend and backend. I find most of my work is done within 3-4 days on most website projects but you end up adding another 3-4 weeks in emails back and fourth with clients, collecting media, licencing/copywriting content etc, transferring hosting packages or getting the information to access the current host.

I would say making a fully responsive design with graphics, some basic databasing and PHP processing etc takes about 1 to 2 days and anywhere up to a week for something a bit more complex for example responsive ecommerce websites.

Richard Hope
Richard Hope
25,237 Points

Thanks for the response. Great skills. Please say that doesn't include any design as well!

Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 Points

That is part of what can take an extra 3-4 weeks bouncing back and foward with the client, sometimes they have their own branding and design ideas for you to work on but a lot of the time I find myself rebranding their whole company as they do not have a strong branding in place already. This can take a considerable amount of extra time.

To be on the safe side I always find it easier to send a questionaire with about 20 or so questions to a potential client after they accept my pitch or they contact me for a new design as it helps you work out how long it will take you to do and the sort of requirements the customer has, this way you can give an estimate of time to completion to the client. (I always word my estimate like "4 Weeks from delivery of content and supplied media" as sometimes you might be waiting for 2 weeks for them to send you the example content to work around).