We receive emails all the time that say nothing more than "How much does a web site cost" Cost of course is related to the time spent on creation and something can be built to fit most budgets.

Are you providing images or does your designer need to spend hours looking through a site for stock photos? Is your logo in a format that can be scaled or scanned and used on a web page or does it need to be redrawn? Do you have 90% of your information ready so that the site can be built at one time or is it going to take a year of starting and stopping waiting for information? With all the starting and stopping the time to complete the same site can easily double and it could cost twice as much. Do you want animation, Flash movies, javascript rollovers, custom programming, email forms? Do your research before you decide to create a website.