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This article sparked my interest today, from RediceDesigns.com, What a Client Must Include in a Design Agreement
I’m always trying to better myself and my services, so I thought I’d see just what is expected in a web design contract. Maybe I wasn’t including some things. Turns out, I do include all they talk about here – cool! Be sure your designer includes all of these – it’s your duty to yourself.
Below is the outline from their post:
Must #1 – The Designer’s Services…detailed
The designer should breakdown what service you are receiving, not summarize it.
Must #2 – Design Rates or Fees
The designer should specifically explain their rates for the project and fees.
Must #3 – Cost Breakdown
Along with a explanation of the fees and hourly rates, you should know the total estimated cost.
Must #4 Ownership of Work
You should have a clear explanation of when and what is yours when the design job is complete.
Must #5 Post-Project Duties
The designer must specify what his/her job entails after the design has been complete, if any.
Some Additional Agreement Tips – view this post.
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From my experience (as a client, not a web designer), the thing you need with a web design project is a series of deadlines. Not just one, and an agreement on what happens when they aren’t met.
e.g. discounts, extras, etc.
So many web design projects go over times
At the same time, web designers need to emphasise at the beginning of a project how changes to the design/functionality will impact on the timelines.
A good and well written Web design contract ensures both sides — Web site owner and Web designer.
When you get Must #2 specifically listing rates and fees, that’s where a lot of bad relationships start. I worked with some designers in the past that after agreements were made included extra fees for work that were never discussed. Thanks for sharing, just forwarded this to friend.
@ City Sylvester: I can sympathize with you. That’s why web developers should have a Terms of Service page, written legally, yet understandable.
Great and thanks for this update! I have even read about the ways you should charge your client for web development and designing. The only thing which the article concentrated on was on the time that will be consumed in the work.
Don’t you think this is true as you have set a net profit for each month and each day so you should charge the client after thinking about time you need to invest and money you need to spend on your employees if you have an office or outsourcing the work!
I have found that the ‘ownership of work’ can be a contention between consultant and client a lot of the time. I have experienced relationships in the past where a client had a bad experience as a result of the consultant attempting to claim all ownership to design work (and sometimes SEO!), thus giving them the ability to rebuke it at any time. Ridiculous!
@Top MBA College in Jaipur: I feel that this is a no-brainer.
It is right that at a time website designing is easy but what you should mention in the contract is too difficult to know. This post really provide nice information for the webmasters and the people who require to design a website.