Website Tendering Sites

[LivinLOS]

I just heard from my buddy the insanely high price he was about to pay for a simple site.. He then showed me the 3 suggestions and they are all 50 USD templates with a couple of bits of flash animation subbing his GFX.. He really doesnt need a much, a template site would work out for him.

I have said I will help him to get his site online but dont intend to take the code on myself.. I will just help him get a coder, set the hosting up, that kind of management for him (hes a good mate) as hes clearly getting fleeced here. He doesnt need hardcore SEO type work done as this is more a comms point for customers than an advertsing vehicle to pick up new ones.

Anyone got experience of the best contract auction / bartering sites ??

I had looked through some before when I wanted to ballpark price up a possible project, but not actually gone through and used any myself.

[Deksan]

I just heard from my buddy the insanely high price he was about to pay for a simple site.. He then showed me the 3 suggestions and they are all 50 USD templates with a couple of bits of flash animation subbing his GFX.. He really doesnt need a much, a template site would work out for him.

I have said I will help him to get his site online but dont intend to take the code on myself.. I will just help him get a coder, set the hosting up, that kind of management for him (hes a good mate) as hes clearly getting fleeced here. He doesnt need hardcore SEO type work done as this is more a comms point for customers than an advertsing vehicle to pick up new ones.

Anyone got experience of the best contract auction / bartering sites ??

I had looked through some before when I wanted to ballpark price up a possible project, but not actually gone through and used any myself.

Never made any transaction but been looking a bit in case i could find some extra job to do ... All i saw was foreign indian-china company setting non realistic price like 50 USD for some job who requires sometimes a lot of work. You ll get what you pay for, at 50 USD you ll get a 2h-4h works i d say (In order to get 100$ a day -> 2000 $ a month provided you have 40 customers) . If you are yourself programmer / expert in computer you ll know that wont be a great job or it will be a template job which wont necessarily match what your friend is looking for.

First part of the job is to ask your friend to describe what he wants as thorough as possible, then you can try to put it on a freelance website and check what proposition you got. But like I said be careful, cheap price = cheap work most of the time.

Good luck.

[LivinLOS]

Basically he just showed me some proposals.. Which are clearly just basic template jobs.. And hes being quoted 100k baht with no SEO or search work !!

Hes not trying to make people slave for nothing.. but for all he wants (an online corporate presence, a comms center for clients, some images of work done) something like 500 - 800 USD would probably sort out a non western priced programmer / designer IMO.

[dsys]

I use rentacoder and getafreelancer frequently. Sometimes four or five times a week.

You have to be very specific about what you want.

Here are some "current " prices for different things I have had done recently:

CMS system - US$500

website scraper - AUS$2000 [rather a large complicated program)

link building - US$0.05 / link

Article writing - US$0.15 / article 300 words

Conversion from table layout design to CSS - US$125 - expensive but couldn't be bother to do it myself

As for web-design I have found the quality to be somewhat lacking and a rip-off. Better to go to a site specialising in graphic design freelancers and get a psd layout, slice it and dice it and then throw that up. I tend to use that method, can get a good looking site with limited functionality up and running in about two hours, no coding needed really.