WOT: Any webmasters here?, Present costs for developement, hosting, promotion, etc? Options

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I need some advice on 'going rate' web site costs for things like development, hosting, web site promotion, edits, adding meta-tags, etc.

The company I work for as a Business Development Manager is coming under new ownership. This could be a VERY good thing as our previous owner was a huge corporation that horribly constrained how we could do business, especially our web pages. Example: If you were lucky enough to drill down a gajillion clicks and actually FOUND our web pages on the corporate site, there was nothing but a single email address there to a contact us...and the emails went to corporate office... who forwarded them to us when they felt like it! No address, no contact names, no phone numbers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

We are now 'out from under' and can use our own / old web page again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mueba.gif) I've been out of the loop web-wise for 6+ years (I was a quasi-webmaster at a previous job) and wanted to make sure the website contractor we used to use (and will likely use again) isn't (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) us.