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HTML - How To Charge For Maintenance?
For those of you guys who may be familiar with my situation now learning web design, I have been approached by a local music studio here in NY to provide some site maintenance work for them, they will be wanting pics and content replacing and need the site updated. I am a novice at this so I haven't a clue how to charge for this? I realize that I cannot charge anywhere near what a pro would charge so that is not a problem at all for me, I have to start somewhere, I have designed a few sites before but that was simply editing templates and I had to do some of the work done by paying pro's to do it via Rentacoder.
Now, that I have learned XHTML and CSS I want to do everything myself and will only pay someone to help if there's no way I can do it myself so can you guys help me out by suggesting how much I should charge for this my first job doing maintenance? Also, do I charge by the job or work performed or do I give an hourly rate? Similar TutorialsI had created a similar thread here a while back but that was regarding site "maintenance". I am now bidding for my first paid job locally here in NY but this is all I have to go on from the person: The work on my website will require flash/animation inserts. They will be self-building PowerPoint slides. Which of your samples includes or comes closest to that? You must give me a maximum compensation figure if you want to be considered. I had told him that I cannot give a price without knowing all details, how many pages, images, if the need animation e.t.c and I still don't know but that is mainly how it's done here in NY, people tell you next to nothing and ask you what you will charge, how would you guys handle this please? Hello all i've been doing some research on my own and am simply trying to redirect my site "ndcubed.com" to "ndcubed.com/Construction/Constuction.html" when my site is undergoing maintenance. I've managed to read up on some tutorials and have found that this is apparently supposed to work: In the .htaccess file Code: Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/Construction/Construction.html$
RewriteRule $ /Construction/Construction.html [R=302,L]
This works like a charm and redirects all my pages to Construction.html however if you try going to my site the redirected URL is simply a blank page. However when the code in the .htaccess file is removed it isn't blank and displays normally. What could be going wrong, why would a redirect cause this page to not load correctly? Nothing is loaded except plain text, even the page background isn't displayed. Thank you for your help, I feel like i'm so close to getting this solved. Construction.html source: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-image: url(Images/lightGrayBack.png);
background-repeat: repeat;
}
-->
</style></head>
<body>
Test
</body>
</html>
For someone who wants a career in website maintenance, what is really needed please and is that person called a webmaster? |
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