Wordpress Design Pricing

[compasslocal]

Why on earth did you say you could get a quality template designed and coded for a few hundred bucks?  Im a professional designer, I expect to make 75 an hour which is actually low. And you think I should be able to design and code a high quality wordpress site in a few hours. You are killing my business and encouraging people to hire low quality developers or take work out of America.  Im very offended by your comments.  Why dont you try living on 5 bucks an hour !! You just spit in the face of all good designers.

[CPU]

Hi Dave

Not every local business can afford or even needs a uniquely designed site costing them 1000's of dollars. Often a decently constructed and designed template (and they do exist) will meet both their business needs and their budget.

If you are unable to differentiate to a custimer the advantages of your skills and service over a template provider then that is not the fault of SEO Moz who are providing SEO and CRO advice in the webinar.

Please note I have no affiliation with SEO Moz and am actually a freelance web designer whose day job includes SEO so I have feet in both camps.

[Highland]

Back up for just a second. You've got a standalone post that sounds like a response to something. A post? A blog? What?

I agree that for custom you get what you pay for. I'm in a very custom business and we have to work hard at the "sweet spot" where people want to pay for custom. In software this gets very fuzzy. Templates can be free, cheap, expensive or custom. Every user has to assign that value and make that determination themselves. What was probably being said was that a designer could make a template and sell it at $XXX a pop. You sell a few of those and you could make the money you want. Without the original post, tho, that's just a guess

[CPU]

The original post was made in response to a comment in the SEO Moz Webinar today.