2009 Price List

Updates to an existing site:

$48/hour, billable on the quarter hour. Resizing an image for a new release and uploading it with a blurb should take no more than 15 minutes. That's $12. How much have you been paying elsewhere?? No updates for a month or more?--no charge! Other updates and redesigns--we'll talk. I work fast, so fees stay low.

New domain registration:

Online registration fee plus $20. Online reg fees are up to $15, so this would be $35 or less to you. You can save money by registering it yourself; I'll tell you where.

If I do this for you, I will give you a copy of the registration location, user name, and password so you will never be tied to one host. Why? you ask. Because many authors have found themselves "stuck" with an online community because they registered through them and can't get the passwords.

Pointing a domain to a new host

If you have all the passwords I need, $20. Questions: free.

Uploading an existing site to a new host: (moving your site)

I hate to say anything depends on size, but this one does, as it uses bandwidth. A simple site is $50. A larger one will be $100. I can look at yours and tell you up front.

New web site:

Developing a new basic site and uploading it to a DNS (your new host), $100 per hour. Soon-to-be-published writers will be happy to know that a very simple, basic site can be done in one hour. Something along the lines of a page with or without a background, a heading, your photo, a blurb about the book, an image of the book, a short note from you, information about when it will be released, that kind of thing. Please note I am not a graphic artist. I know where to get headers, backgrounds, and images, but I don't know squat about designing one from scratch. Nor do I wish to learn. ;)

When you want to start adding links to booklists, reviews, contests, etc, there will be additional charges at this same rate. But let me tell you, once the basic work is done, the additional pages go fast. In addition, if you're a member of a publisher's group of authors, say for instance, Avon authors or SIM authors, and you all get together and want to put up a recipe ring for the holidays, your page will be economical enough to join in the fun.

Domain registration and pointing (see above) are not included in the price for a new web site, as many people can handle that on their own and save money.

Newsletter:

Let me say right up front, I don't write newsletters. For anyone. That said, if you write it, I will upload it to a newsletter service, test it, send you a test to proof (if desired), and schedule it to go out when you want it to go out. 1/2 hour charge is standard, more if unusual. There is also a per-address charge from the newsletter service, but it is very inexpensive.

If you don't have a newsletter service, I can set it up for you. 1/4 hour. Additional charges for uploading your mailing list, depending on whether it's in .csv format or if that needs to be done by me, and whether you want each email personalized with the recipient's first name--always a nice touch. You must have everyone's consent to be on that mailing list or the service will ban you when it gets complaints. Questions: free.

Something else not on this list:

Perhaps I haven't included the one web service you'd like to have done. Questions: free.

Details you'll want to know:

First-time clients pay a 50% deposit, balance due on completion. Paypal's the quickest, though I will take a check if you want to sit around and wait for it to clear. Repeat clients pay for work done.

For more information or to contact me, use this handy form.

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