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In short, no. Everything I know about development and design is entirely self-taught. Whilst I am doing a degree in Digital Media Development, I'm not really learning anything beneficial. Amazingly, the development area of the course is painfully basic.

I chose to get a degree for two reasons. 1) The experience. I've met a lot of different people. Which, honestly, would be worth the money I've spent on it alone. 2) The degree. Despite not technically needing one, and probably never really going to need one as I aspire to running my own company. It's nice to have it as it can open certain doors when required.

Experience is much more important than qualifications. For example, I'm currently on my placement year at the moment. Spending 14 months as a software engineer. I've learnt more in the time I've been working here than I have done throughout the previous 2 years of my degree. Picked up a new language, couple of different frameworks etc. If the money, or debt, is a put-off for you then start somewhere basic. A junior role. Get some experience. Teach yourself some new skills. Then you'll have the option to move onto something higher up.

I've had a couple of VPS's from them, and never had a problem.

DropBox, I can fully recommend. Excellent service.

I've been thinking about this subject recently,and was considering purchasing a NAS with RAID, or a home-server / pc configured in RAID to be used solely for storage.

Although I may just pay for a larger DropBox area. £6.50 for 50GB of storage is quite a modest fee to pay for the convenience.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Yes, I do understand that . He's recently started moving into the website design area. I wouldn't of thought it would be too hard for a graphic designer to shift onto web design, provided they took the necessary steps.

All of my clients will be providing a "specification" which will help outline the design requirements and expectations. Detailing of sites which they like the look of, sites they dont. So that he has a series of designs to use for inspiration, and then put his own "twist" on things. Wireframes and such will also be playing a part in the process. So I'm hoping that that, along with input from me, will be enough to produce some quality work.

Time will tell.

True. I know what I'm doing, and increasing / improving on my skillset on a day-to-day basis. So around £20 is probably more accurate. I can get things done relatively quickly. If you were to charge a flat fee, what would be an approximate cost. That you would charge, for example.

Classified website, back-end CMS, paypal integration.

I know it's a hard question to answer. An approximation is all I'm after.