paybacksa - 4:07 am on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the details. This is an interesting thread.

I passed along a job a few months ago for a new website for a newbie small busines owner. He envisioned a 5-6 page brochure website. He had no strategy, and little business sense w/r to Internet. He had already allowed a friends unemployed spouse to design his site, and recognized it was a horrible experience.

Why is this important? He is in Denver, and shopped a few design houses. The bids were $2300 to $3000 for a 5 page static html site, from template, with minimal graphics work (just what I would consider basic support stuff). No support, no hosting, just design and post. He paid at least $2500 for what I consider to be a poor brochure site.

So $1000 is too low.