Quality Web Design – Website Design

Hi I was wondering what I should pay for website design. I’ve got a video home page, 3 pages of copy (done already), a blog page and forum, and a shopping cart page. The design would need to be a Professional corporate Site.

My hosting company has the tools so it’s just the design and expertise to put it together.

What would be a reasonable ball park price for this? How many days work might it take?

When I do web design for people there’s a lot of factors I consider. For example, your site may be pretty basic, but you also want a forum and blog, things that will need to be implemented in other ways (to make the updating easy on you). I normally start with some basic layouts in Photoshop and continually run things by the client back and forth until we come to a final design. If the client responds quickly to my emails (and that’s honestly pretty rare—people are slow), the entire thing can be done within 2 weeks or less. For a site of your proportions I may charge $500 or so, but price is completely dependent on the person doing the designing.

I need to creat a single page website design and need some help to give estimate on this.
The client will provide their own logo, and I need to design 5 identical icons for this single page site. The client want to see about 2-3 different template designs.
What would be the reasonable quoate for this job?

If it’s not too complicated, I would charge $15 per icon, about $50 per template design and another $50 to implement the one they select.

Or, $200 for the whole thing. But, I’m worth that much. How good are you?

I need to learn how to design a web-site. I am planning to start this as a hobby and if all goes well, maybe even start a side job as a web-designer. What type of program should I learn? Is Microsoft FrontPage still good to use or is it no longer up-to-speed with other leading web-designing programs.

What other types of programs are out there that will help me with website design. Do you think Macromedia is a good choice? I know it’s a bit steep in price but I figure if I am to invest the time to learn the ‘difficult’ program, time is money, why be shy on one and not the other.

What about Adobe? Do they have a web-designing software?

Please share your thoughts. I really need the help.

Adobe (previously Macromedia) Flash, Dreamweaver if you don’t like writing html, and Photoshop