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How To Write A Web Design Contract

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07-14-2010, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Julian View Post
Everyone who engages in the business of design should use a contract, this protects you and your clients.

Just as you should never begin a job without a deposit, you should also never begin a job without a contract.

Many beginning designers feel awkward about asking for deposits and signed contracts. While a deposit can be a little difficult to justify, a contract isn't at all difficult to justify.

Some important elements a good design contract should contain are:

1. Purpose and goals of site
2. Domain name, hosting
3. Description of graphic content
4. Features/Functions/Scripts
5. Keywords & other spider food
6. Cross-browser and cross-resolution
7. Submit to search engines
8. Regular maintenance
9. Estimated cost and payment schedule
10. Ownership rights
11. Confidentiality statement
12. Design credit statement
13. Delivery date, approximate or specific
14. Early termination procedures
15. Charges for meetings/conferences
16. Charges for ammendments
17. Time limits for quotes, acceptance of mockups etc.

Get these elements together and then visit a lawyer and ask them to go over it with you, ask them to add anything they feel is necessary.

If you have trouble getting a client to sign then you could tell them that it protects them as much as it protects you. That you are BOTH legally bound to abide by the contract.

If a client refuses to sign a contract, then they are not a client you want to have when the going gets tough.

Please find enclosed one of my businesses contracts, you are welcome to use this for your own use but you will have to personalize it for your business. I recommend seeking legal advice on your contracts contents.

Update 18 Dec 2006: I have uploaded a revised contract, this has more detail in the licensing and other various sections. Also please find newly attached is an example Appendix A for the contract.

If you download my contract please let me know if it is useful or drop a thankyou at the end of this thread
I can't open the file. WinZip says it does not recognize the file - any hints?
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Originally Posted by smshiell View Post
I can't open the file. WinZip says it does not recognize the file - any hints?
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Yes I am also facing issues with extraction, it says empty/corrupt archive. I have my own contract template but I would love to see how others do it. your version sounds more appropriate and I'd like to have a copy. thanks!

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Originally Posted by Aziz View Post
Yes I am also facing issues with extraction, it says empty/corrupt archive. I have my own contract template but I would love to see how others do it. your version sounds more appropriate and I'd like to have a copy. thanks!
Had same problem. Found new uploads in post #183 (Thanks Salate). There's still some formatting issues with Word but I can make use of it.
Thanks Julian for sharing this.

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I've been in the processing of mocking up a template for general use this week, would be great if other freelancers could show theirs so I can compare.

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Originally Posted by jccloc View Post
Had same problem. Found new uploads in post #183 (Thanks Salate). There's still some formatting issues with Word but I can make use of it.
Thanks Julian for sharing this.
yea I got the documents but the encoding is messed up! would appreciate if someone could e-mail them to my address azizgfx@gmail.com thanks!

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Can anyone make this available again please? pm me.. the archives are both broken

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yes is there a way that some one could email this to me also or PM

leon.simpson@hotmail.com titled web contract?

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I have the same problem, and would really love to see what needs to go in a contact.

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I am having problems downloading those 2 files. I get an error/file format issue. Anyone else?

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Wow, a web design forum and they can't post 2 simple fu**ing word files appropriately. What's up with this?

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