Please could you view this site:http://www.birdcollege.co.uk/ and tell me if is complicated. I do not think it is, but want to check if I am unaware about it's structure.

I have been given the opportunity to rebuild and update a website for a client I once did www.md2000.co.uk . I have experience with web design but not high tech.

Also, what would you quote for the Bird site ... $3000?

Other work I have done: MITCHELL MAAS MCLENNAN LTD www.hammphotography.co.uk

Thank you for any advice and shared thoughts.

HAMM

The site doesn't look overly complicated to me. I'm not a Flash person so I can't really speak for the difficulty there, but it really doesn't look like anything all that hard to do. Depends though on whether you know Flash I guess. I didn't click through everything to see how many pages there were all together.

Your estimate seems reasonable to me. I'm sure there are people who would do the job for less and I'm sure there are people who would do the site for more.

It might be a good idea to consider your own experience and skills when giving a price. If this isn't he kind of thing you've done before it might be worth doing for less money just to gain the experience and add the site to your portfolio.

When creating Flash sites the best way to determine how to charge is my taking inventory. Here is what I mean.

Determine how long it will take you to create a button. Then figure out how many buttons you will need to create. Do this for each asset of the site. Break everything down and figure out how long it is going to take. Then determine how long it is going to take to create the site after all assests are created.

If this is your first site with Flash let me encourage you to layout the entire site first. Know every single asset that needs to be created before you begin. Then create the assests. Have all of these assests: your graphics, buttons, movie clips, content, and anything else, created and ready to place on the stage. Then put everything together. Have navigation predetermined as well

Storyboard, storyboard, storyboard EVERYTHING! If you don't you will be very sorry somewhere during the project.

When things start going south on one of your first projects, you need to forget about the money to a certain extent. Don't sit there and figure that you are only going to get paid $5 an hour after this thing is finished. Think about the education that you are getting. Everyone goes through it. Chances are, you will too; at some point in time.