When I refer to the Dot.com blowout was between 1999 and 2001 when companies were hiring web developers and paying $60+ an hour to make web pages... The dot.com sank (along with the stock price of these worthless companies... Example http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SYQTQ.PK&d=t was once going for $60 a share, and others like excite.com where selling for 7 billion for the company... the same time Jaguar was selling for the same amount... All excite had was a web site and a room full of computers and that was worth what jaguar was? Anyway, Many Dot.com companies died... The mighty ship around late 2001 failed and since then web developers have found themselves working between $15 - $30 an hour. Lot of my friends began to do things like Lotus notes development and people soft and oracle, since you can get back to the 100K a year life style... I've been able to keep my rate up thanks to the vba programming I do as well as web development...

Hope that helps..
DJ

Phil I'll keep you in mind if someone wants a web page done... For web hosting I always refer them to http://abc-123.net I've used this guy for 6 years and his sites never crash and are fast!

[This message has been edited by beachbum (edited 12-15-2004).]