I vaguely know somebody through work who is involved in high end legal services.
Around a year ago he hired a webdesigner to redesign his website, apparently the cost paid was around $20,000. Now bare in mind that this was for website design only (logo etc already existed).
The website itself was a relatively bog standard wordpress setup with about 10 pages of copy, a basic WP template and a handful of stock art images, no custom code at all as far as I could tell; I could have done a better job myself over a weekend most likely.
After hearing about this price I was curious as to who had been lucky enough to get hired for such a contract, turns out it was a designer who had been referred to him by others in the legal business.
So the question is, has whoever did this found a goldmine of customers who are willing to pay such huge sums of money just because frankly $20K isn't a lot to these people.
Or was it more to do with the risk of providing services to somebody who specialises in suing the crap out of people?
From what I (think I) know about the web development business, I'm guessing it had more to due with the fact that this developer found a goldmine of customers. Then again, maybe the developer is very concerned about clients from hell so he can quote princely sums to clients he or she isn't sure are worth the hassle. I suppose that's still a measure of risk. Not risk that you will be sued, but risk that a demanding client will require special treatment and hand-holding.
Around a year ago he hired a webdesigner to redesign his website, apparently the cost paid was around $20,000. Now bare in mind that this was for website design only (logo etc already existed).
The website itself was a relatively bog standard wordpress setup with about 10 pages of copy, a basic WP template and a handful of stock art images, no custom code at all as far as I could tell; I could have done a better job myself over a weekend most likely.
After hearing about this price I was curious as to who had been lucky enough to get hired for such a contract, turns out it was a designer who had been referred to him by others in the legal business.
So the question is, has whoever did this found a goldmine of customers who are willing to pay such huge sums of money just because frankly $20K isn't a lot to these people.
Or was it more to do with the risk of providing services to somebody who specialises in suing the crap out of people?