NEED ADVICE FROM YOU EXPERTS...

I need the help of the elite programming/webdev crowd. Upon request of a client, I’ve taken the following actions with their website that was sitting dead in the water after the Windows host got hit by an SQL injection exploit.

• Had the worm cleaned out of the code. The guy hosting it before backed the SQL database and home directory up and provided me with the backup.
• Transferred the domain name ownership from the hosting company to the business owners.
• The site was written in ASP . I moved the site over on to a ASP -compatible Linux server. After reworking the code, I got the site successfully migrated over and online.
• Backed up and transferred e-mail business contacts from the old email store to the new one. Remapped fields as necessary, what wasn’t imported I had to manually edit.
• Removed Charon Cart shopping cart, set up PayPal for secure cart and checkout process.
• Registered the site with DMOZ , Google, Yahoo Search, and MSN Ad Center.
• Registered the product items to be readily indexable in Google Shopping(i.e. Google base)
• SEO ’d the site, now the site’s on the first page of Google and AOL using 4 keyphrases.

I’m at a complete loss as to what to charge them for the work. It took 35 days to complete, a lot of which was waiting on them to make decisions. I’d estimate it took 20 days to complete. I’m just starting into web development. What would you experts do?

You could try to calculate the hours of work, then think about how much you would charge an hour. If you take those to, and also take in account the taxes as FonZ said, you have a pretty good estimate of what you should charge.