FLASH: Estimating Flash costs

[Brian Mays]

We are going to be redesigning a website with a Flash into.  The bosses

have NO idea how to quote/bid a site with Flash.  Quoting is not

something I do either...they recommended I check with some user groups.


My initial gut reaction is to quote at LEAST twice as much as we do for

straight HTML/Photoshop work.  And to factor in three times as much

time.  I'm taking a number of things into consideration...such as having

to draw all the items as vector images, the time it takes to align and

animate things, the bug testing that will need to be done to it, and the

learning curve that will be involved (this is our first piece using

Flash to any large extent).  Plus the fact that an alternate page

WITHOUT Flash will need to be built.


Are there other factors we should consider that I might be overlooking?

I kinda feel out of my league trying to quote a price for them.


Thanks for your time,

Brian Mays





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