It is often hard to find an affordable website designer, especially if you are a small to medium sized business. Artist's Cafe specializes in web sites for small businesses, designers, and entrepreneurs.They tout affordable rates in the $2-3k range, and advertise themselves as having very creative, passionate and artistic designers.
One issue will going with low-cost website designs firms, in my experience, is the number of design concepts the firm will produce for you. This firm says they provide 4 unique conceptual designs for every new client so they can choose from the options. Once the the client chooses a design direction, Artist's Care will iterate 3 times through the design process to produce the desired outcome. I find this to be a refreshing and reasonable process for web design.
Learn more at http://www.artistscafe.com.