It makes perfect sense to me that a company with payroll to meet, rent to pay and lots of expenses would not even consider a job for less than, say, $3000. And if I had to guess, that's what's happening here. They're pricing it at what makes sense for their business model.<br>
<br>That said, I've seen many larger shops tell their clients that this isn't a job for them and that the client would be wise to find a freelancer or small shop who can do it as a fraction of the price. <br><br>
This goes the other way too. Freelancers who have really big sites come their way, should sometimes pass them on to larger companies who are more capable of handling it -- and the larger companies should be passing the small jobs and sites to the freelancers and small shops.<br>
<br>Sam<br><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 0pt;"></blockquote><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Nancy Wichmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nan_wich@bellsouth.net">nan_wich@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Fred Jones wrote:<br>
> hired a fancy NYC company ... custom node template, based on a PSD.<br>
<br>
That seems pretty darned expensive to me. When I worked at IBM, nothing<br>
could be done by one person. You had to have an account manager, project<br>
manager, architect, QA, etc. Each had his/her own hours to bill, and none<br>
would be as low as $100/hr. However, that still seems quite high to theme a<br>
node, but I've never worked with a PSD. I've done several node type<br>
templates and not even my first one when I had to learn took 33 hours. If<br>
they have to do some hooks to make sure variables are available, it could<br>
easily take more than 3 hours, but nowhere close to 33.<br>
<br>
Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP<br>
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I work with someone on a Drupal 6 site and he hired a fancy NYC<br>
company (that charges well over $100 / hour) to do some more work on<br>
the site. The client asked me to write up a certain job and include<br>
some time estimates. Part of it is a custom node template, based on a<br>
PSD. The site template remains the same--this node template is just to<br>
customize the content section. OK, it may involve a *bit* of PHP for<br>
special fields, but it's still just a node template.<br>
<br>
I estimated 3 hours and the NYers 33 hours. They estimate over $3300<br>
to make one node template!<br>
<br>
I don't understand how they are able to have enough business and a<br>
good enough reputation to be charging high prices if they don't know<br>
what they're doing. Because they don't--33 hours for a node template<br>
is silly I think. The other programmer we use could do it in 3 hours I<br>
think (and he's less than $100). He's just busy...<br>
<br>
F<br>
<br>
PS: Thank you for listening to my rant. I feel better now. :)<br>
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