Cool!
Know what? The thing is, I know a lot of people in SA lack information or rather resources to information. So I was just trying to help someone who could have been one of them, but clearly you not - great!
That is why SA web designers are ripping unwary people a lot! I remember about 4 years back when I wanted a blog, asked around for quotes i received prices ranged from R4 500 to R6 200! Even on this age, people are still charging that much and more! I ended up having to learn by my self because I just did not have that kind of money. But hey, through trial and error, I launched my first blog.
Web design for me is totally not a business, yet! Just lending a helping hand, that's all there is to it!
If you asked me for a blog, I'd probably quote you R30 000 to R60 000 depending on what you wanted.
And it would be wordpress.
Why so much?
Because I wouldn't be giving you a wordpress template with the default images and layout.
As _kabal_ said, there would be a number of meetings, professional designers involved, etc.
We'd have a startup meeting to get the project started, get the req's and specs, etc.
The customer isn't aware of what can be done as websites or blog development isn't their speciality, they just use them. (I use a toilet but I'm no plumber).
4 hours at R300 - R1200.
Wordpress is pretty straight forward, a design for your homepage, one for single posts, one for post archive, a static content page and probably 1 or 2 others. A well priced designer would probably get that to you for around R10 000.
That leaves me with R20 000.
Call your coding time at 4 to 6 hours per page (at R300 to R450 an hour) and that comes out at an average thumbsuck of R1800 a page. Multiple that by your 6 pages and you're on R10 800, leaving you with R9 200.
Then other small things, adding to the style to make it future 'proof', adding in some custom widgets and configuring them - 8 hour, R2400, left - R6 800.
If content needs to be loaded and specifically styled then that takes time too but it could also be done by the client after
Client gets shown the site and aahh - we forgot the styling on the search page, plus the design that was signed off isn;t quite what you're looking for anymore and you need 3 items tweaked.
So, add in search page and tweak some items and 8 hours later, all done - R2 400, R4 400 left.
You can see how the 'massive amount' or R30 000 is quite quickly chipped away for a "simple blog site".
It's one thing to ask someone for an off the shelf template, it's another entirely asking for a bespoke website.
Otherwise thanks anyways, saw the going rates.
