OK, here is the deal...

As a budding professional webdesigner, I have been asked to create a website that is a business guide for Ethiopia. As any good business guide it of course needs some market tips, currency exchanges, index, interest rates, and so on. I don't think my client is willing to pay through his nose for something, so I'm looking for the free stuff. Adds are OK. If he wants to remove them we can always descuss what it will cost for him, and when the site is live, it's easier to cutomize things when signing up. So far I sign up for the stuff as if it were for my own site.

I've never really been interestid in these things so when I search for it, I don't really know what to choose. What he want is some kind of list of different currencies and such and have them compared to the Ethiopian Birr. That is really hard to find!

So... I need som help. Anyone know where I can find these things? Any tips on how to make it work? It has to be automatic, because he doesn't know ANYTHING about webdesign. Letting him loose on the site will most probably brake it apart.

I have a market update from thefinancials.com that looks OK. Nothing about Ethiopia, but good for the common things like nasdaq and so on.

Are you sure this is a real customer? Might be worth asking for a deposit first to see how willing this person is to pay for engaging your services.

Oh, he's real. He is the brother of one of my friends. After a whois on the domains he has given, I found a proper contact info as well. He is working with Ethiopian-American trade and such. My friend has relayed most of the info about the site, and I have also contacted him (yesterday afternoon before going home from work), so there is a real thing going on here. Time-difference makes comunications a little slow, but that's all.

If the work falls through, I have something to put in my portfolio, and my friend will "beat" him up.

If he knew anything about webdesign, I would just create the template and let him fill it with content, and he could update any numbers he wanted once a day from a larger site, but... he hasn't got a clue on how to do it, so that's why I want automatic info, and that's hard. If I can't find what he wants for free, I guess he will HAVE to pay for it. Saw some place with $1000 a month, but that sounds a bit steep.

Please! Anone??:(