What should i charge? (And an IE css question!)

[Major_Disaster]

Hey,

Im a bit new to this, and was wondering what you think. Ive played around with making websites for my parents and Uni projects and have managed to make some fairly passable attempts.

Through word of mouth i have been recommended, and employed, by a new start-up to make their website. All the graphics / logo work is provided, and its my job to put together a ~5 page design including some sort of fancy image scroller on the front page, and image gallery, and a php contact form.

Ive pretty much finished the homepage and now need to confirm pricing. This is where im stuck... what is the going rate? My "employer" suggested around £250. Originally i was hoping for maybe a £100 more, so am thinking of going in at £295. Is this reasonable?

Without giving too much away, im not a complete newbie. Im coding to HTML 4.01 strict (validating) and have made a pretty good job of the homepage so far (about 2 days work completed).

What do you think?

(And to the CSS gurus, can you give me a hand with this. Ive created a nice <hr> using a provided image.

hr	{
	background-image:url(../images/hrunderline.png);
	height:20px;
	border:#EBD8AF;
	color:#EBD8AF;
	margin-top:-10px;
}

It works perfectly in FireFox, but nothing shows in IE - any ideas?)

Cheers for any input

 

[Major_Disaster]

Thanks for the input guys.

Regarding the png issue - its a bit of an odd one. I just want the <hr> to display the image, and nothing else. See the attached (and EXTREMELY crude image) 1 = What i want (FireFox), 2 = IETab, 3 = IE with color attribute.

The odd thing is, with the color attribute, the image doesnt show in IETab w/ FireFox, does show in IE8 and seemingly doesnt show in IE7.

Without the color attribute, the image does show in IETab (but with an annoying box around it), and does show in IE8 as normal.

Any ideas?

As for the pricing, we settled on £295, which i am happy with for my first "professional" project.