[consulting] Professionalism

[Bhavin Joshi]

I  think what ever the template is, complex or simple, $3300 is too much.
You would build a very good site with that much money!
If the template is complex, company is reputed, and to be professional, 
the price should be around $800.

Regards.

Cameron Eagans wrote:
> That may be the case, but 'a node template' is an entirely different
> story, and a node template that takes more than ~5 hours is pretty
> extensive and should probably be split into it's own theme. There's no
> way a node template should take that long.
> -----
> Cameron Eagans
> Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
> http://www.blackstormsstudios.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Zohar Stolar <zohar at linnovate.net> wrote:
>   
>> Sometimes "a template" is more than just doing some HTML. The task
>> itself might include building the needed views, theme them, get some
>> blocks in place, and theme them too, etc.
>>
>> I don't know what's the template in question, and I also know that 33
>> hours are a lot of time, but I also know that it's not always as easy as
>> it seems in first look.
>>
>>
>>
>> Fred Jones wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I work with someone on a Drupal 6 site and he hired a fancy NYC
>>> company (that charges well over $100 / hour) to do some more work on
>>> the site. The client asked me to write up a certain job and include
>>> some time estimates. Part of it is a custom node template, based on a
>>> PSD. The site template remains the same--this node template is just to
>>> customize the content section. OK, it may involve a *bit* of PHP for
>>> special fields, but it's still just a node template.
>>>
>>> I estimated 3 hours and the NYers 33 hours. They estimate over $3300
>>> to make one node template!
>>>
>>> I don't understand how they are able to have enough business and a
>>> good enough reputation to be charging high prices if they don't know
>>> what they're doing. Because they don't--33 hours for a node template
>>> is silly I think. The other programmer we use could do it in 3 hours I
>>> think (and he's less than $100). He's just busy...
>>>
>>> F
>>>
>>> PS: Thank you for listening to my rant. I feel better now. :)
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