to fanco -

you can charge how much u want. if nobody buys, its too expensive =)
if people buy right away, maybe too cheap ? lol.

you have to look around with competitors and sometimes if ur standard is higher, you charge higher also.

thanks

so glad someone noticed i used opacity on my site =p
i used .png image format. just save any reduced opacity image (and remove the background layer) as .png in photoshop.

one warning though, internet explorer 6 wont show opacity image properly unless you find a hack to overcome it. just google "ie6 png hack" and you should find the hack.

depends,

some inexperienced designers charge dirt cheap, maybe RM 200+ for a site or blog.

backend stuff usually means the parts of the site that u cant see, but really makes the site function.

it can make the server slow if it is not made properly with considerations, since RAM and CPU usage is limited.

well, if you start new u should charge low and build your portfolio.

if youre pro already, you should charge higher. more than double of course if your work is seriously done.

for local hosting companies :
serverfreak.com.my
chillibytes (forgot url)
ipserverone (also forgot url)

for international:
bluehost.com
hostmonster.com

usually I pay using paypal/credit card, but maybe they accept bank in lol.
cant email them as well ?

it really depends on how much costs u need to cover and what is your profit margin.

there are many ways to do that. maybe some people use hourly rates, maybe set prices, maybe just to make a certain amount of money.

It is made using Adobe Flash (used to be Macromedia Flash)

No offense, but the site is quite horrible. The site resizes if I change the size of my browser, so the text is distorted. The pictures are also distorted. Other than that, it is just so-so because it does not have any specific function.

To be honest, anyone can do that with basic knowledge of Flash and some tutorials that you can find off dr.Google.

Flash is ok- for some conditions.

Portfolio for design - full flash is better, not many people will find you from google anyway (too hard to get first search result)

and some flash (for animation only) with the rest of the page using text is fine too. this wont affect your SEO much at all.

however if you want to be first on Google, then you definitely need text and images, without flash. but smaller sites like design portolios and small companies dont need this because it is too costly and not many of their customers will be from google anyway.

menu shouldnt be in flash because google likes text links.

not really, the if u dont have a sitemap and your menu is flash, google wont index the rest of your pages.

I think that time used to design is not much less compared to time used to do coding.

The design process is not finished in 5 minutes. A proper, full process takes at least a few hours depending on the workload. A logo design itself can take around a few hours, including research, refining, and preparing the final product.

if oyu really think its not worth it,

tell them. charge more everytime they call you.

have YOU heard of joomla ?

designing a portal is TOO easy and FREE.

just try that price then. it can be any price you want.

maybe even count number of hours u put in.

charge how much you think you earned.

count hours spent on this just to give you a better estimation.

yeah, always* keep your rights over the software, no matter what.

thats how you can charge a monthly fee =)

Yeah, I find dreamweaver pretty useless, except the part when I need to make many tables.

I also agree about the pricing. Its your quality of work and the hours put in, not the software you use. software is just a tool to make it easier. you made the work.

colour and content needs tweaking.

i also did not immediately get the point of the site when i opened it. had to look aorund 1st. that shows poor planning of the site.