oldschoolsdime92 Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Whats the average cost for a person to maintain a governmental website such as this one? www.concord-township.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Whats the average cost for a person to maintain a governmental website such as this one? www.concord-township.comDepends on the frequency of the updates and who manages content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Are you accepting bids to do said maintainance?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkow97 Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 if you're looking for a designer or content manager, I know a gal who might be interested.if you're just wondering why your city is paying so much, I have no clue what the typical costs would be...which is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted January 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 our pricing isnt bad now, the site gets updated twice a month, with the minutes. The person hosting the site now takes care of this. I was just wondering what the general price was. there seems to be an issue of people jacking prices up for us latley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likwid Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Our association management company lists their web maintenance at something REDICULOUS like 3,000 a year.... and it's nothing more than a portal site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblosser Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Based upon the amount of content there (not a lot, file-size wise), you could find one of the big name companies (GoDaddy, 1and1, etc.) that would host it for $50/year.If the "regular" updates are only twice/month uploading of a .PDF file, anyone could do that - it doesn't take a "webmaster" to FTP a file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Our association management company lists their web maintenance at something REDICULOUS like 3,000 a year.... and it's nothing more than a portal site.Nothing more than a portal site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblosser Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Our association management company lists their web maintenance at something REDICULOUS like 3,000 a year.... and it's nothing more than a portal site.I'll host it for $1500/annum - you get me the deal and I'll kick $500 back to ya.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Our association management company lists their web maintenance at something REDICULOUS like 3,000 a year.... and it's nothing more than a portal site.You do realize most companies have a full time employees who do nothing but the "portal" right? These people usually get paid around $50k+/yr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likwid Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 You do realize most companies have a full time employees who do nothing but the "portal" right? These people usually get paid around $50k+/yr.Yes, and that's why there is a problem with it, any monkey with a stick can do the job.It's a pre-built portal site. And all it does is allow residents to login, and post on a message board. And there are announcements. Nothing a secretary/volunteer/temp couldn't do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdubyah Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 I can tell you what the government pays me to update our office website, and it ain't nearly that much. Initial Cost for setup is the hefty fee.Updates shouldn't cost you more than $60/hr. It doesn't take that long to make changes. I've been out of the website business for a while now, so my prices are probably waaay off of what they charge now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Yes, and that's why there is a problem with it, any monkey with a stick can do the job.It's a pre-built portal site. And all it does is allow residents to login, and post on a message board. And there are announcements. Nothing a secretary/volunteer/temp couldn't do.The average pay for a secretary right now is around $15/hr. Say, 10 hours per month which isn't ridiculous. 2.5hrs/week. So that's $1950/yr. Add to that workers comp and all the other crap employers have to pay for, and you're looking at right around $3900/yr. So hire a temp. Temps cost a company around $25 - $50/hr. No, they don't make that much, but the company pimping them out does. Temps change frequently, so you'd constantly be retraining. Add the cost of training hours to that, and it's a worse idea than the secretary doing it. And as for a volunteer doing it, well, volunteer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 It's so easy a caveman can do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likwid Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 The average pay for a secretary right now is around $15/hr. Say, 10 hours per month which isn't ridiculous. 2.5hrs/week. So that's $1950/yr. Add to that workers comp and all the other crap employers have to pay for, and you're looking at right around $3900/yr. So hire a temp. Temps cost a company around $25 - $50/hr. No, they don't make that much, but the company pimping them out does. Temps change frequently, so you'd constantly be retraining. Add the cost of training hours to that, and it's a worse idea than the secretary doing it. And as for a volunteer doing it, well, volunteer.I did volunteer to post stuff. It's literally 2-3 documents a year. PDF uploaded to the site... done. But why take a volunteer when they can charge us $3,000? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted January 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 i can do the updating of the PDF files , and adding the information. They have had the same guy doing it for a few years now, and someone seemed to think he was expensive, so i was just trying to get a ballpark figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Not enough info to give you a real guess.Caspers numbers for the actual person seem about right.Part time work as long as you don't have an official that wants to pester them all day with things like... "Could you move that comma to here and install a flaming rolling logo here, and could we try this sentence with a different font...."As the web help runs screaming for the exit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Yes, and that's why there is a problem with it, any monkey with a stick can do the job.It's a pre-built portal site. And all it does is allow residents to login, and post on a message board. And there are announcements. Nothing a secretary/volunteer/temp couldn't do.You think any monkey with a stick can manage an enterprise portal?Maybe the little thing you guys use, but there are real skills needed for larger implementations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrillo Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 You're asking designers a question for developers. The developer answer to this question is: I'll make you a secure page to login to your own website, post your files in a user friendly environment, and auto-update anything on the website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted January 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 i see! well we got it figured out, I just was curious. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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