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

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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.

Code: 
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
 
For the .png issue. Double check the file is saved as RGB (in Photoshop best way is to save to use the save for web feature) and not CMKY or anything else. I made this mistake with a .jpg before and it confused me for hours.
 
What exactly do you want the <hr> to look like? IE won't display the background image whilst you have the color set.
 
Depends on what you want to charge. Recently did a 7 page site for my cousin, no fancy design,an image slider using JQuery, just clean css - so it was quite quick to do. As I setup hosting, a domain name and email for her I ended up charging £475.
 
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.

iehr.png


Any ideas?

As for the pricing, we settled on £295, which i am happy with for my first "professional" project.
 
I'm fairly sure I read somewhere (either on an accessibility site or the W3C site) that you shouldn't use HR for splitting a page, so go with the div method suggested above :).
 
Pho said:
I'm fairly sure I read somewhere (either on an accessibility site or the W3C site) that you shouldn't use HR for splitting a page, so go with the div method suggested above :).
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Don't suppose you can remember why <hr>s should be avoided, can you?

I use them to separate completely unstyled content into manageable or logical sections [with a style of 'display: none', of course, so they won't appear in proper, styled sites].

That seems like a decent, valid, usable and accessible solution to me. But hey, I live to be corrected :D
 
Hmm I can't find it now, maybe I made it up :/. It was something along the lines of the HR tag was never intended to be used for.. then I forget the rest :o.
 
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