My friend who is a graphic designer is resigning from her current job to join a different company. While waiting for her new job to start, she wants to put some of her time to good use as a freelancer. Her skills are quite amazing as she has design packagings for products of XXXX, YYYY and others but she is new to freelancing.

My friend is a designer, I am a hobbyist programmer. We thought that it might be a good idea for us to work together and have decided to get together to start our own freelancing team to earn some extra pocket money. She do the design, I do the programming. However, we have no idea where to start. Any advise?

Her services
- Logo design
- Letterhead design
- Newsletter design
- Desktop Publishing
- Web Designing

My services
- Web Programming

Her design skills
- Flash & Actionscript
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Dreamweaver
- Fireworks
- InDesign
- Premiere (yes, I know this is video editting)
- QuarkXPress
- After Effects
- The rest I dunno..

My programming skills
- C#
- ASP.NET
- SQL
- ADO.NET
- Crystal Reports


1. How should we start out as a freelancer? Would it be a good choice to start out bidding for projects at twogateways.com, rentacoder.com, etc?

2. How do people usually charge for a static HTML website?

3. How do people usually charge for a dynamic website?

P/s: Sorry if this is on the wrong section. I am hoping some pros like etsuko and others to come in and help give some advises / comments.

Yea where to go looking for clients?

Ok, well that's one option but I would like to hear some other recommendations on how to meet clients or how to look for one.