Who Can/know Who Can Do Database Setup For A Website?

[SixPackSunday]

i need a database setup for a website. its a fairly large database. it included several drop downs, variants, rating systems, and comments. as well as needing to be fully searchable based on my criteria.

i'll pay you well... but the company i just got off the phone with quoted me 8k - 20k and thats INSANE for what i'm looking for... i would sooner teach myself the programming required.

also i already have EVERY bit of the raw data already in a spreadsheet for you. so that should help a ton

[Bye bye now have fun]

8k min to make a freaken database? thats insane.

[Evildave]

Well, there's always factors involved but i do agree the first pricequote does seem excessive.

Do you require hosting for said database? How many changes required will it have to be integrated into a specific website? will there be programming required to integrate to the website? is there a support contract?

All these things... add money. And knowing a friend that's in the business of making websites/slicing sometimes it's a lot of work, and customer sometimes call back " just to make this one tiny minie change"... like 20 times. So they quote the big numbers, making sure that they're getting paid for all eventualities.

[SixPackSunday]

alls i know is a web school is doing the design work for 10 pages worth of my site for free...

after that i need seombody who can create the database and integrate it into the site... i already have the hosting/domain/etc all purchased and secured.

no support contract required.... biuld the database from what i need... i have friends who can tweek from there, but dont have time to do the actual database....

so yea? any takers? throw out a price?