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Originally Posted by dcldnl  How much is the cost of a reasonably priced person ? |
That's part of the problem with web design--there's no real correlation between cost and quality. Obviously if you want a high profile professional design firm you'll pay through the nose. And since "I design websites" has replaced "I'm doing some consulting" as the line unemployed people give when they don't want to say that they're unemployed you can find someone to do it dirt cheap as well.
If you get a local web design firm to do it there's even more of a disconnect between cost and quality. A friend of mine is going into real estate and showed me a brochure for a web design company he was thinking of using. They were charging a ton for very amateurish looking websites, and then were going to gouge him for monthly updates. They were going to host his site for a mere $50 a month (outlandish for a simple, low traffic, non-bandwith intensive site) then hit him up for $5 for every email address he set up and so forth.
If you live in a town with a decent sized college hit up their computer science department. And there's always "rent-a-coder" which I mentioned in my prior post.
And remember as well that the cost of your design will vary greatly depending on your specific requirements. A simple site with a few pictures and links will cost less than a very complex, highly interactive site with a lot of scripting requirements.