I’ve been learning all kinds of php wisdoms lately. Because of the word-of-mouth, the web projects keep coming. I suppose, I’m not so clueless anymore as to what to charge people for my time. The nice round figure that seems to work for this clearly more rural area is $50 an hour, which is a hell of a raise from my day job.

However, I got tired of not knowing how to answer folks who want some ideas about the approximate cost of their project. Is it $500? A grand? Two grand? Will I have to take pictures? Scan? Type? Will they need interactive or static pages? Graphic design of any kind?

So I started writing a little tool that is supposed to help in such circumstances. It is currently in its infancy on my work server [fbcode.com/quote]. Play around with it, tell me what you think.