I am relatively new to web development and haven\'t had to provide estimates for
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I am relatively new to web development and haven't had to provide estimates for many large projects yet (my last large project was just paid for by the hour without a strict deadline or budget).
A client is asking me to provide a cost and time estimate for providing a myriad of changes to another developers code for a website (php/mysql backend).
Can anyone provide some advice or links on how to go about analyzing and estimating this? The code is horrible (the website was originally outsourced to india years and years ago) and it's hard to know if I'm going to suddenly hit hurdles and blow my estimates out of the water.
Explanation / Answer
I think you should not name a price from the beginning. If someone talks to you about a project, you should do enough work for free to figure out what the client wants and how much it might cost. No more or less than that.
Give them a proposal, which can be extremely brief, but give them something that describes what they want and what you will deliver. You can put a range if you want, and you could even say that this is a
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