How to estimate your projects

Here are some great tools and articles to help you when you need to estimate project costs for your clients. These are geared towards website development but can also be used for other types of projects as well. All of these were graciously provided by Sam Barnes in his Smashing Magazine post Effective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects.

• Web Development Project Estimator
  A neat little online tool that allows designers and developers to quickly create cost estimates for web projects.
• Tick
  Simple to use time tracking tool that makes it easy to keep track of project budgets.
• How to Estimate a Web Site Project
  Patty Ayers discusses a five-step process for estimating web projects.
• Simple process to estimate times and costs in a web project
  Antonio Lupetti describes his process for creating web project cost estimates.
• How to Accurately Estimate a Web Design Project
  John Reeve talks about catering for the usual missing elements in estimates; project management, contingency time and margin for error.
• Estimating Resource Time for Web Development Projects
  Bill Breen explains one way to approach estimating time for web projects, and how the size of the project should influence you estimate ranges.
• How To Estimate Time For A Project
  A Sitepoint article by Alyssa Gregory.