Re: FLASH: OT: Rates

[Bob Schwartz]

Hi,


fwiw from someone new, but having been a businessman with a long history of

selling merchandise to the most major of US retailers and having just made my

first site quote, I used a total price with contract language that gave both

sides a comfort level if major changes were required.


IMO (and I hesitate to even comment as I am not one of the "old guys" in the

site development business), hourly contracts can be scary, especially to

entities large enough to have budgets that they have to live with.


trust is, of course, a major factor in this whole thing as it is impossible to

really quantify every last possible eventuality (up front) given the

ambiguities in design, browser compatibility, etc.........especially so as it

would seem that very often, the people responsible for "get us on the web"

don't likely have a clue as to the many variables in this process.


finally, it would also, I think, depend on the size of the job, client and the

client's politics of buying and paying for things.


major companies are used to paying lawyers by the hour, but not necessarily

other kinds of contractors, with buyers being generally unwilling, especially

if something is to be very visible, to risk their careers on variables beyond

their control.


hope that helps.


regards,


bob


At 03:58 PM 2/10/99 +0000, you wrote:

>Who is of the school of thought that man-hours are essentially irrelevant,

>that either the client is or isn't happy with the end result; that they are

>buying a 'product' which to them is worth a certain amount of money? I know

>it is vague, but my god I hate doing timesheets!

>

>e.g. a banner advert is around 100 quid, if well animated and effective, it

>don't matter whether it took five minutes or five hours . . .

>

>. . . . so it goes with Flash for a smallish site.

>

>Daniel Hart

>graphic designer

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