Flash-Based Shoe Designer

How much would you charge for a flash program that does the following:

There is a picture of a blank white shoe at the right with different sectors. To the left, there are drop down menus each with a line to a certain sector of the shoe. These drop down menus allow you to choose a color for the corresponding sector. Basically, it is a shoe customizer. You can pick the colors for your shoe, and then it generates a code based on what colors you pick. Then you enter the code during shopping cart checkout.

This will definately take me a long time to do, but I know that I can do it if I stick to it. What do you all think, and how much would you charge?

I think it would be a great project for you to learn flash on. This project...if hired out would probably run you about $250 - $500 depends on the animation and amount of ActionScript that needs to be used.

thanks, i think im going to start on it tonight. And i can always ask you for help since you are the flash expert

hahaha...sure thing, that is what Webforumz is here for...to help other people...lol

this brings up a nice point, what is the average people charge for a flash website, say an about page, a gallery, contact page, and a links page? I charged $300 NZD for this, what do you lot charge?

It all depends on how much animation and complicated ActionScript that website contains. Normally I won't do a flash website if I don't make at least $1000 USD on that website.

Hey I started on this, but I am having trouble using droptarget in actionscript. Can someone look at my .fla file to see why it's not working?

http://www.danedesigns.com/colorchanger.zip

nevermind i got it working. here is the start of the flash based shoe designer: http://www.danedesigns.com/colorchange.swf.

How would i make it so that when the color is dropped, it reverts back to its original position?

The concept reminds me of the house painter prgrame they have at dulux paint stores,

and about charging cost for this sites etc.....is there a grid or algarythim anyone uses to determain how much to charge as something like this would really help out a small freelancer like myself.

Ok guys, my next problem is cleanly splitting the shoe into sectors. I have a large picture of the shoe right here: http://www.danedesigns.com/shoe.jpg

Does anyone have any ideas on how to separate the shoe into sectors right along the seams? I have Fireworks 8 and Photoshop CS2.

I'd remold it in swift 3d, then do it like one of those flash colouring in books