It takes me roughly 2hrs for each xhtml css code and i charge $25 per xhtml/css code irrelavent of complexity. Also ull probably not find anyone who can code who uses less images, lol, i use bg colours/borders wherever possible. Also, my coding is based upon my theory that xhtml should define text, not have any images at all in it, (i do use tables for forums, but no-where else). And then the style that is then applied should add the images to it, therefore without the style you have the plaintext xhtml, so you can add a completly different style without changing <img> tags. Im yet to see another designer come round to my way of thinking (probably cos its more work), but still im sticking to it. Although AJAX isnt much extra work, I usually charge an extra $25 for that, simply because there arnt too many that can do AJAX, and do it well at a low end price range.