What is a good price for a website?

I am kind of in the same boat as your are, I charge $30 an hour basically no matter what I'm doing (PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript). I don't know Flash (can't afford it), so I can't speak on that. The website you have listed seems a little slow in FireFox, I didn't try it in IE because well, basically I don't like IE, its very very very buggy (well, it doesn't always follow standards and has alot of legacy functions builtin). I haven't been making websites for to long but eventually I will be charging more, because people are willing to pay for it. It is a great skill to have, keep up the good work. Since you are a beginner, I wouldn't charge more than $50 an hour, but flat rates are good too, like $100 for a static page, or $250 for 3, or $150 for a page with PHP or Javascript. Good luck.

I've been building commercial websites for years and I use a pretty basic formula.

Static websites less than 5 pages = $500

Static websites over 5 pages add $50 per page.

Flash design is $70 per hour contracted against a maximum number of anticipated hours. Most Flash websites run $2000 and up.

Scripted websites that include PHP, Java, JS, Perl, ect... start at $1000 and will include a $70 per hour fee contractually for updates and bug fixes after a certain amount of time.

Not trying to be rude here... but after looking at the source of that page I wouldn't pay you anything. In fact, I'd ask you to pay me for making my business look so bad. Okay, maybe that's taking it a little too far, but seriously.

As a web developer you have an obligation to your customer not to rip them off. An obligation to actually know how to do what you're telling your customers you know how to do. Sure, maybe you're still learning and getting your feet wet in HTML and CSS and that's fine -hell, I encourage you to keep learning. On the other hand, in my personal opinion, you have a long way to go before you start charging anyone for that.

Why not go to a forum dedicated to web designers and ask this question there.

check the marketplace at http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/

I think you should learn how to hand-code websites and not use templates. That's how you end up with rediculous code like this:

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font-weight: bold;

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</style>

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.style8 {font-size: 14px}

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.style9 {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}

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Why so many <style> tags??