Thanks for the response cr8or, I agree knowledge & experience are key.
Pay
I didn't put down a fixed amount because I chose not
set a minimum until I got the thoughts of the members here
and hopefully from employers that I know are present.
Experience
I know looking at my age it is very hard to believe I could
have a reasonable amount of experience. While I don't have 10 years, I have 5 years of HTML and 2 years of PHP.
- I have had board meetings with the "boss", the finance department and the technical department.
- I have taken briefs, built 5-table, 40-column database schemas and implemented secure GUIs.
- I have learnt on my feet including ASP for a public project, 3rd-party systems and building alternate GUIs based on only a database file.
- I created a full multi-account, multi-user, mass feedback system.
Please take a look at (feedback freedom) Welcome! and login with username york and password iwf which I independently designed and developed.
Bearing in mind I would never consider myself a web designer and have no art training the design is intuitive and usable.
You will see that "FF" has secure multi-user authentication, automatic RSS Feeds, statistics, archiving, time zone correction etc. and behind the scenes it has detailed DB error reporting.
I believe I designed this in such a way that it would stand up to peer-review and my error-reporting practices are sufficient for live, service-critical rollout.
Bottom Line
I have no problem with anyone regarding my request as over the top or even absurd, but I would still like your comments, and hopefully your respect.