The old $soft Frontpage program had simple wizards to create starter websites: I am sure that you could use this or an equivalent with results good enough to get a brochure type site up and running .......
There are two schools of thought:
(1) a high school student can design a workable brochure website for about 8 dollars per hour, and about 10 hours of work.
(2) You need a professional design firm.
Option (2) is really not viable unless you are talking about a giant budget and you have the cashflow and customers - or investors - to justify it.
Websites are marketing vehicles or customer/employer portalls, or catalog sales equivalents. Today, even hooking up a system to a database is often a point and click excercise with no programming - for simple relatively low traffic sites.
You should be able to hire someone to get a basic system with database integration up and running on a hosted site for less than 1000.00 dollars.
