looking for a website builder

[marktb]

Hi, I just don't have the time nor the knowledge to build an effective site with all that I want to include. I am looking for a reasonably priced person to build and maintain my site. Once its built there will very little maintenance, at least that's what I think now.

Please email me at azbaldwin@excite.com if you are interested.

[da1prophet]

Originally Posted by marktb

Hi, I just don't have the time nor the knowledge to build an effective site with all that I want to include. I am looking for a reasonably priced person to build and maintain my site. Once its built there will very little maintenance, at least that's what I think now.

Please email me at azbaldwin@excite.com if you are interested.

You might be able to find someone via this forum, but I'll suggest a couple of other options. If you live in a college town try throwing an ad in the campus newspaper. I'd also suggest Rent-a-Coder:

Rent A Coder:How Software Gets Done

[dcldnl]

How much is the cost of a reasonably priced person ?

[da1prophet]

Originally Posted by dcldnl

How much is the cost of a reasonably priced person ?

That's part of the problem with web design--there's no real correlation between cost and quality. Obviously if you want a high profile professional design firm you'll pay through the nose. And since "I design websites" has replaced "I'm doing some consulting" as the line unemployed people give when they don't want to say that they're unemployed you can find someone to do it dirt cheap as well.

If you get a local web design firm to do it there's even more of a disconnect between cost and quality. A friend of mine is going into real estate and showed me a brochure for a web design company he was thinking of using. They were charging a ton for very amateurish looking websites, and then were going to gouge him for monthly updates. They were going to host his site for a mere $50 a month (outlandish for a simple, low traffic, non-bandwith intensive site) then hit him up for $5 for every email address he set up and so forth.

If you live in a town with a decent sized college hit up their computer science department. And there's always "rent-a-coder" which I mentioned in my prior post.

And remember as well that the cost of your design will vary greatly depending on your specific requirements. A simple site with a few pictures and links will cost less than a very complex, highly interactive site with a lot of scripting requirements.

[Lucas]

Originally Posted by da1prophet

That's part of the problem with web design--there's no real correlation between cost and quality. Obviously if you want a high profile professional design firm you'll pay through the nose. And since "I design websites" has replaced "I'm doing some consulting" as the line unemployed people give when they don't want to say that they're unemployed you can find someone to do it dirt cheap as well.

If you get a local web design firm to do it there's even more of a disconnect between cost and quality. A friend of mine is going into real estate and showed me a brochure for a web design company he was thinking of using. They were charging a ton for very amateurish looking websites, and then were going to gouge him for monthly updates. They were going to host his site for a mere $50 a month (outlandish for a simple, low traffic, non-bandwith intensive site) then hit him up for $5 for every email address he set up and so forth.

If you live in a town with a decent sized college hit up their computer science department. And there's always "rent-a-coder" which I mentioned in my prior post.

And remember as well that the cost of your design will vary greatly depending on your specific requirements. A simple site with a few pictures and links will cost less than a very complex, highly interactive site with a lot of scripting requirements.

I agree. And not only that, if you dont know much about it, you can be getting some amateur-ish stuff, but paying pro prices.

For example, my friend, who thinks I should apply for web design jobs, though I have been doing it only a short time, showed me WellMate Pentair Water which looks pretty decent aside from the left aligned design. However if you view the source there are some outdated thinking and coding in there, in multiple ways, not just in terms of archaic ways to do stuff, but there are lots of basic SEO rules broken or ignored...and the site was made a few weeks ago. They get paid to do it too, so its really hard to say what is worth what. Someone could run a firm and still be using tables to layout content, or not testing on multiple browsers, or not doing basic SEO.

It can be a crap shoot. Lots of people know HTML, its an easy language, but websites dont consist of only HTML anymore, its just not how it works. Jump into 2002.

[Caveman Joe]

Hey. I'm almost finished with a website for another forum member from here, if you want to check it out:
A Walk in the Park - Photography by Victoria Hall
I don't charge a maintenance fee, the site is run from a couple of content management systems so the client can update it herself, and hosting is free for the first year (£1 to £10 a month after that, depending on how much data transfer you need). Let me know if you like what you see.

[ash]

I work for a web design company - good quality for a low price.
(UK based)

Sitefox - HOMEPAGE

Our prices start at FREE setup with £10 per month for a small website.

Cheers,
Ash

[Caveman Joe]

Ash, check how your site displays in FireFox - I've got lots of horizontal scrolling on your home page at 1024*768 res.

[aussieNickuss]

Originally Posted by Caveman Joe

Ash, check how your site displays in FireFox - I've got lots of horizontal scrolling on your home page at 1024*768 res.

I think its a stylesheet issue because when you refresh, it looks great. Just when it initially loads, it spreads really wide.