What would it have cost?

I'm an admin assistant who constructed a Web site for my non-profit that
consists of two dozen pages with a fair number of bells and whistles. I
wrote/assembled all the content and graphics (including picture
slideshow) and will be maintaining/refreshing the site, which is being
hosted cost-free on one of our servers. I'd like to get an idea what it
might have cost if we had gone outside for design, maintenance, and
hosting.

Thanks.

"editprod" <editprod@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm an admin assistant who constructed a Web site for my non-profit that
> consists of two dozen pages with a fair number of bells and whistles. I
> wrote/assembled all the content and graphics (including picture slideshow)
> and will be maintaining/refreshing the site, which is being hosted
> cost-free on one of our servers. I'd like to get an idea what it might
> have cost if we had gone outside for design, maintenance, and hosting.
>

4 million [currency of your own choice]

"editprod" <editprod@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:zdu5i.2952$u56.239@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net ...
> I'm an admin assistant who constructed a Web site for my non-profit that
> consists of two dozen pages with a fair number of bells and whistles. I
> wrote/assembled all the content and graphics (including picture slideshow)
> and will be maintaining/refreshing the site, which is being hosted
> cost-free on one of our servers. I'd like to get an idea what it might
> have cost if we had gone outside for design, maintenance, and hosting.

There is no one answer to this question. There isn't even an "easy" or
"ballpark figure" answer to this question... just too many variables
involved.

I suspect you are just looking for a rough number for a tax writeoff? If
thats the case you might just put it down as something like $15 an hour for
the time you spent on it or at whatever rate you make now as an admin
assistant plus maybe a few bucks an hour more.

Some of the questions that make this hard to answer are:
- what skills did you use in the site's design?
- was there programming involved? graphic design? database work? admin
section/control panel?
- what was the quality of the finished work?
- how long did it take you to develop the site?
- how long would it have taken a professional to develop the site?

So lots of things to consider...

Auggie wrote:
> "editprod" <editprod@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:zdu5i.2952$u56.239@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net ...
>> I'm an admin assistant who constructed a Web site for my non-profit that
>> consists of two dozen pages with a fair number of bells and whistles. I
>> wrote/assembled all the content and graphics (including picture slideshow)
>> and will be maintaining/refreshing the site, which is being hosted
>> cost-free on one of our servers. I'd like to get an idea what it might
>> have cost if we had gone outside for design, maintenance, and hosting.
>
> There is no one answer to this question. There isn't even an "easy" or
> "ballpark figure" answer to this question... just too many variables
> involved.
>
> I suspect you are just looking for a rough number for a tax writeoff? If
> thats the case you might just put it down as something like $15 an hour for
> the time you spent on it or at whatever rate you make now as an admin
> assistant plus maybe a few bucks an hour more.
>
> Some of the questions that make this hard to answer are:
> - what skills did you use in the site's design?
> - was there programming involved? graphic design? database work? admin
> section/control panel?
> - what was the quality of the finished work?
> - how long did it take you to develop the site?
> - how long would it have taken a professional to develop the site?
>
> So lots of things to consider...
>
>

Agreed - it's not possible to determine. It's like asking "how much
would a three bedroom house be worth"?

But there's no tax write-off, at least in the U.S. Your time is worth
nothing to the IRS. You can only write off donations of money or items.

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hi...

For Hosting it would cost you anyway from 80$ - 120$ per year. Then
for website design it would vary from 200$ to 500$ depending on the
amount of design work involved in it, the data content of the website.
For maintenance it would come around 100$ a year.

Aishwariya
http://www.monstertemplate.co.in
http://www.cd.monstertemplate.co.in

hi...

For Hosting it would cost you anyway from 80$ - 120$ per year. Then
for website design it would vary from 200$ to 500$ depending on the
amount of design work involved in it, the data content of the website.
For maintenance it would come around 100$ a year.

Aishwariya
http://www.monstertemplate.co.in
http://www.cd.monstertemplate.co.in

On Fri, 25 May 2007 07:19:12 -0400, Jerry Stuckle
<jstucklex@attglobal.net> scrawled:

> Agreed - it's not possible to determine. It's like asking "how much
> would a three bedroom house be worth"?
>
> But there's no tax write-off, at least in the U.S. Your time is worth
> nothing to the IRS. You can only write off donations of money or items.

It's true that there's not a tax write-off. But the organization the
OP did the work for needs to report donations of professional work. I
know, because I'm on the board of directors of a non-profit and have
been asked to estimate the value of the technical work I do for them.

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it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. ~ Poul Anderson

Jaya wrote:
> hi...
>
> For Hosting it would cost you anyway from 80$ - 120$ per year. Then
> for website design it would vary from 200$ to 500$ depending on the
> amount of design work involved in it, the data content of the website.
> For maintenance it would come around 100$ a year.
>
> Aishwariya
> http://www.monstertemplate.co.in
> http://www.cd.monstertemplate.co.in
>

And how can you estimate this with no idea of the work to be done?

It's a great way to go broke.

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Thanks for your reply -- as well as the feedback from others. The design
and, particularly, the content, consumed hundreds of hours, a majority
of it on my own time. The work was done in Dreamweaver, Photoshop and
ancillary programs. I did it mostly for the challenge (I have a writing
and desktop publishing background) -- with no expectation of pay. At
various stages, the content drove the design; at other stages, the
design helped frame the content. I'm sure a professional Web developer
could have done the design work in a fraction of the time, but the
content needed to be painstakingly gathered and cobbled together. I
asked "what it would have cost" largely out of curiosity.

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> Jaya wrote:
>
>> hi...
>>
>> For Hosting it would cost you anyway from 80$ - 120$ per year. Then
>> for website design it would vary from 200$ to 500$ depending on the
>> amount of design work involved in it, the data content of the website.
>> For maintenance it would come around 100$ a year.
>>
>> Aishwariya
>> http://www.monstertemplate.co.in
>> http://www.cd.monstertemplate.co.in
>>
>
> And how can you estimate this with no idea of the work to be done?
>
> It's a great way to go broke.
>

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