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    lost in translation

    That's fair enough, no harm done.
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    lost in translation

    No sympathy here either. I think you misjudged the mood somewhat. I'm not disputing the economics of outsourcing to India, but if you do so, be discreet about it and don't expect too much help from the people who will be (indirectly) losing out as a result.
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    Hosting

    After trying numerous web hosts over many years, l still can't find anything to beat United Hosting. Their technical setup is extremely reliable and well sorted, and support - not that you'll need it - is truly exceptional. Their reseller packages are flexible and each client/site hosting...
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    How long does a web design take?

    Nice take on the situation. To summarise: cheap bucketshop agencies/developers deserve the nightmare clients. Elsewhere, cream rises to the top.
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    Average hourly rate

    By 'HTML' do you mean full front-end coding, CSS, standards compliant coding, etc? Knowing just some PHP won't have much commercial value, but it's a good foundation for you to build on and gain knowledge. These days there's a lot of non-taxing PHP-related work in CMS implementation...
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    Average hourly rate

    What type of work? Skillset? Level/grade/experience?
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    jQuery Sites vs multiple page sites?

    Most likely, this would be bad for SEO. You need to tune each page for keywords and phrases, optimise your HTML title and use the Hx tags appropriately. If you've got most of your content stuffed into one document, you'll actually have too much dilution and weaker relevance. You also need to...
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    How long does a web design take?

    Depends what you mean by 'design' - this is a rather vague and often misused term. For example, you might mean visual/aesthetic design of front-end UI, but really, a thorough design job should consider elements like content, information architecture and navigation on a site-wide basis - you...
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    How many hours do you work a week

    I'm self employed and typically clock anywhere between 30-60 hours per week depending upon the number of projects on the go and how hungry I am. In theory I get paid (eventually) for every hour. In practice, at least 10% of that time doesn't get billed, either because it's R&D time or because...
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    Annoying "friend" clients

    Squiddy, sounds like your 'friend' had very unrealistic expectations and was wasting your time; you needed to walk away. I'm working on a major web site project for a friend at the moment. I originally declined because the budget was way too low - bespoke requirement for an out-of-the-box...
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    What browser(s) do you draw the line at?

    The ie6 cost issue is real and justified and it's sensible to make that cost known to clients and give them the option to avoid it. There are many reasons why ie6 lingers so long and one of those is that developers and agencies continue to absorb the problems - and often the cost - thus...
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    What browser(s) do you draw the line at?

    Certainly in the UK, we still run into heavy ie6 requirements with corporate projects. Outside that bubble of lunacy, the numbers are low. Depends on the project. There are many degrees of ie6 compatibility and usually it's up to the client to decide how much they want to spend on it. I usually...
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    What browser(s) do you draw the line at?

    Depends on the client, the project and its target audience, but generally, ie is widely used and cannot be ignored. I still to do plenty of work that requires ie6 compatibility and some recent work was unbelievably 99% ie6 due to being internal corporate projects. In reality this is negligent...
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    The most important lesson to learn in web design

    Sounds promising, I hope it works out for you. This is vital work but I still find that it's an uphill struggle getting people to understand the importance of good usability. All too often we see this taking a back seat and many design/dev teams just don't get user-centred design, preferring to...
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    The most important lesson to learn in web design

    That's a bit of a tease. Any clues?
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