Website Quote Process

Here is an example set of questions and information we send to new potential Essex Website Design clients
Here is the standard questionnaire that we would ask you to complete and return (please ignore questions that are not relevant and either highlight your answer or delete the answers not applicable to you)
As you have indicated you want to keep your costs down initially and want to have a budget website I would like to to think  about bringing down the costs as much as possible by agreeing to:
1 Agree that you will provide all the text and images for this site.
2 Give me as much detail about what you want (screenshots and example sites are great)
3 Tell me exactly what you want on each page and how many pages you want
4 Tell me How many galleries (outside of the ecommerce suite) you will need to showcase your work (a gallery being something like the ones on our example website I directed you to previously.
Once I have a firm idea about what you want we can put a quote to you but  £1400 is probably going to be below the very minimum we can accept for this work so perhaps I can suggest that if you only have that money available now that we can take a deposit, develop the site, launch the site then take the 2nd payment and then defer any outstanding payment to a later date (to be agreed between ourselves) I suspect that the final quote will be about £1750 but not much more taking into account your circumstances, the fact that you will do the graphic and text work and the fact that it would be great to be involved with a very different business  like yourself. I am very flexible and open to suggestions and hope this sounds reasonable to you.
I confirm that as part of any quote we give will include domain name / hosting / databases / updates etc etc included and 2^nd and subsequent years involve an ongoing hosting cost (currently £45 per year)
Hope this sounds fair and reasonable and look forward to starting your project
[Website Client] So nice to talk to someone who actualy understands what I am talking about. I will warn you now I am unsure if I have filled your questionnaire as you woudl need it but I think after you see what I have in mine provided in the zip you will see what I am aiming for.
1 Agree that you will provide all the text and images for this site. – yes this is not a problem (had this planned a long time ago)
2 Give me as much detail about what you want (screenshots and example sites are great) – never a problem I am a very straight forward woman
3 Tell me exactly what you want on each page and how many pages you want – this is slightly harder due to the amount of items already able to be sold all taga format at this point in time which when zipped is tiny any way.
4 Galleries –  Loving the websites like the Essex water softeners website you showed us during our call, the style is not far off the idea I have put in the zip for you. I hope poked the other half & he asked what payments do you take might be able to save you getting charged any silly ammounts by paying you by other means other than paypal. More than happy with what you have suggested on the paying for everything side really makes my life a little easier as well as able to concentrate on getting my customers happy to the site as well as new content made. Trust me when you see the content of just three of my mega packs you will probably cry at the time I spend making sure my customers are very happy with everything they buy from me. Just takes them time to get use to using a different platform where its paypal instead of L$ (linden dollars) being used.
If I have missed anything please call me I am arround all the time unless I am being dragged out for shopping (hates shopping unless for kimono on ebay)