Affordable project management s/w for web designers?

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hi everyone,

Does anyone have suggestions for good project management software that does not cost hundreds of dollars? (like MS Project). I'm a web designer and I sometimes will have several web projects and accessible document projects going on at the same time, in different stages, during our busy season. It's sometimes a struggle to keep track of my milestones and stay on budget, and I sometimes need to nag my clients to get their feedback to me by a certain date if we are going to make launch date.

I'm currently trying to manage it with Filemaker and Outlook, and it's not working well for me. I'd like some kind of graphical presentation to help me track it all, add notes, reminders, budget for each phase, budget left, and try and see if I can make a more automated way to generate estimates in the future. The team is looking into connecting the Filemaker database with MS Project, but that looks to be MONTHS away.

Any suggestions on something I could use in the mean time? Preferably less than $150? I'm on the Mac but have VirtualBox if a Windows program is the best fit.