How much would I expect to pay for someone to register and design a basic website?
A few pages showing my products, a little info and contact details. Nothing too flashy but nice quality.

Edit: They would use templates not a full custom build.

depends how good the developer is, how big the site is and so on and so forth. Certainly for a static site or as site based on a common CMS like Joomla or Drupal, I would be surprised if it were more than a couple of grand, and quite possibly less than a grand

Will you need it updating regularly? Will you need e-commerce or anything like that? Examples of sites you like?

I could knock you a site together for next to nothing. Certainly a lot less than a grand!! I've built a couple of sites as favours for mates (bike importer / shop businesses) and I don't profess to being the best web-designer in the world but if you wanted me to knock something together for you to have a look at I'd be happy to. I fancy a new On-One Summer Season so thats £135 – I could do a site for that much!

i can get you a professional legit well designed site designed and online (ie not just knocked together) for £500, delivered in 7 days.

I can do it in 3 days for £100.

Any clown can knock up a website, but if you want a proper job, speak to a professional. Owen Gregory @ Full Cream Milk is excellent: http://www.fullcreammilk.co.uk/

Look at his contact form, to help you think about what you want / need: http://www.fullcreammilk.co.uk/download/fcm_worksheet.doc

Off the shelf package here: http://www.fullcreammilk.co.uk/delivering/your/bluetop/

The guy who did my website – http://www.staffhunt.org . You can get him at http://www.scoosh.com

Phenomonal guy, has all the (legit) tricks and knows his stuff. Also is not a geek so has A LOT of business sense. Ask for Tom and tell him Pedro sent you. You will be looking at around £500 methinks.

Try Switchplane – they start off at about £250ish for basic stuff and can do pretty much anything… Good service too…

Any clown can knock up a website,

I'll have you know that I can't.

Thanks for the help though, lots to think about.

Seem to remember Microsoft do some freee thing that guides you step by step through the process. Not great but free. Took me 2 hours to get a basic website up. Then got a mate to do a far better website with bells and whistles for a bottle of decent Scotch