recently i wrote website copy for a client. when i gave him price estimate for his project he wanted me to reduce it by subtracting about 50 percent of the total price from it.

so instead of giving a blunt ‘no’ or ‘obeying’ his command, i proposed a new estimate in which i reduced the word count to fit his budget.

he was ok with that and happily paid the price.

Glad I could help! 🙂

Hey Johnny,
You’re welcome! Definitely, if you’re “forced” to work when you’d rather be playing, it should cost extra.
Good luck going forward!
April

Great. Thanks heaps. I agree that it’s a process that can’t be rushed.

Hey Andrea,
Me too! 😀
In all seriousness, it’s a sliding scale, and sometimes it’s on a case-by-case basis, but there are a couple of general rules I follow:
1) I’ve never met your “average” informational website that doesn’t take at least a month to complete, so I usually start with 4-6 weeks and then take into account any special parameters of that particular project.
2) I like time to create, sleep on it, and then review/modify/create some more, so for something that I think might take me 4-6 hours of actual design time, I’d like at least a week for that initial design process before my reveal to the client. For larger projects, might be 2-3-4, depending on the particulars.
Does that help?
Thanks for asking!
April

True that, Sharon! 🙂

I find the same.