| It's not surprising to me that there are scam artists and con men online.
As we all well may know, anonymity is the best thing about the WWW. Being
anonymous when it comes to the business of web design is, well, plain silly. You, as a professional web designer, want your client to know you are serious and trustworthy. How can you do this without looking them in the eye? Use a contract. Not only does it protect the designer but it gives the client |
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| Web Design/Development Contracts | |
| 1. Details of the project. Possibly this would be on a separate sheet attached to contract: site map images content of pages rough sketch for layout/design special features |
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| 2. Business relationship are you a subcontractor or employee? | |
| 3. Deadlines/milestones Date contract work will start. Date contract work will be completed. Milestones are for both parties!! Client: to supply material, to review work. Designer: to deliver initial design, beta, upload to server |
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| 4. Payment schedule & fees ex. 25% upon signing of estimate, 50%
after beta approval, 25% for upload to server ex. 50% upon signing of estimate,
50% for upload to server penalties for late payments, paragraph that says you can stop work if you are not paid |
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| 5. Kill fee ex. 50% even if job is tabled | |
| 6. Author Alteration fees this refers to extensive changes or edits by client | |
| 7. Rush fee foreshortened deadline fee | |
| 8. Ownership rights a. who retains copyright? b. does client have rights to alter design or original artwork? c. does designer get attribution/link on homepage or only on source file? d. do you want to assess an additional fee if client wants graphics source files (Photoshop, etc.) as opposed to only getting the "Web ready" files? e. does client have rights to more than the electronic usage of your design - would there be an extra fee if they wanted to use any of the design elements in other media or for other purposes than on the Web site. |
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