RE: yikes! how much do i charge?

Ok, I've come to you guys seeking advice with another very important
question...here's the background:

I just got my 1st  "real" paying client and am intent upon delivering a
great professional site for them.   Get this:   they've been waiting since
October for this high school student to finish  a very rudimentary one he
started for them.   He had taken the navigation graphics and layout off
someone else's site, was going to scan their info, post it to  the pages
(10 at most I think), and  charge them $600 for it.    They finally gave up
on him.   Interestingly, this is the second such story I've heard in the
past few months.

 At the initial meeting I found that they needed not only "Web Design" but
for me to virtually design their internet marketing plan, author/edit
informational and sales text,  take and re-touch digital photographs, create
interactive elements, image maps, style sheets, frames, 3d creation and
animation;  create custom images and clean up some they already had, and lay
out a customer service plan and messages/forms/orders routing.   This, plus
they want me to do the magic webposition  thing and submit to the major
search engines on a regular basis.   The site would be about 25 pages to
begin with  AND they saw the site expanding rapidly.   Oh, and they want me
to host it too (I'm a reseller).

 Now, I can know I can roll up my sleeves and give them what they want and
more,  but how the heck much do I charge them for it? The clients waiting
for my proposal  and I don't have a clue!   This kinda happened faster than
I expected and I'm not quite prepared.

Can you seasoned pros help me out here?.   The last thing they said was that
if I could do it for $1000 they knew the owner would agree.   Is this a fair
price for a professional site which would include all of the above?
Remember, I am just starting out...HEEELLLPPP  PLEASE GUYS.

Thanks again...

Liliane

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