<div dir="ltr">As part of my Masters curse, I need to get costings for an annoyingly speculative bit of web work.<div><br></div><div>Could anyone help me with ballpark figures for making a functioning demo site, and also for making it robust enough for real world use (which is frankly, quite unlikely to ever happen), if I give them the spec for what the site needs to do? I and another student will handle the visual design and spec, as we know our way round photoshop and css, but we need a quote for the back end because we don't know our phps from our elbows, and this <a href="http://www.altontowers.com/rides-and-attractions/thrill-rides/rita/">http://www.altontowers.com/rides-and-attractions/thrill-rides/rita/</a> is what we think of when people mention ruby on rails.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My guess is that a demo site might be a few hours work, which is about all my budget would cover, but I could be wildly wrong, as I've not worked with a back end web person for abut a decade.<br><div>
<br></div><div>It's a brief from a real client, but it's fairly unlikely to turn into a real live project, as we're in a beauty contest with 4 other student teams, and we're pitching a blue-sky idea to a company probably that already has web talent. We are definitely in 'I'll buy you a pint or two for helping me out with costings' territory, rather than 'we'll all get rich from making this site for real' territory.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Andy_R</div></div></div>