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Looking for Web Designer

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  • 09-12-2005 3:10pm
    #1
    kitcaths
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭


    Hey all! I am designing a website www.gamexchange.ie and at the moment I am in a rut trying to get the posting sections of all the game consoles sectons working. Is any web designer interested in giving me a hand designing the rest of the site please e-mail me a kitcaths@gmail.com . I will pay for the work to be done but remember i am a student and i know web design is expensive so i can't really afford expensive designers. Thank you very much. :p


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    Webmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    How much you offer to pay?


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    #3
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    kitcaths wrote:
    i know web design is expensive

    In this day and age, it really, really shouldn't be.


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    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    rsynnott wrote:
    In this day and age, it really, really shouldn't be.
    Quiet you!


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    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    rsynnott wrote:
    In this day and age, it really, really shouldn't be.
    Web designers are a dime-a-dozen; good, and I mean really good web designers are worth every penny you pay them, imo. Though I think the people I'm talking about would be better described as web developers, rather than designers.

    Any fifteen year old with a warez copy of photoshop/imageready(?) can be a "web designer".


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    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    CuLT wrote:
    Web designers are a dime-a-dozen; good, and I mean really good web designers are worth every penny you pay them, imo. Though I think the people I'm talking about would be better described as web developers, rather than designers.

    Any fifteen year old with a warez copy of photoshop/imageready(?) can be a "web designer".

    Indeed. In practice, however, there are very, very few of those indeed.


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    ButtermilkJack
    Registered Users Posts: 632 ✭✭✭ButtermilkJack


    Hey all, not to be too picky, but... just to remind everybody that there is a real difference between web 'developer' and web 'designer'. Design is much more than putting a website together. That's called 'development'. Design involves many more complex issues (eg: readability, navigation, information architecture) that only qualified designers should be (well-) paid to do.

    Bottom line, 'design' is something that takes individual talent and skill. And these do not come as pre-installed filters in Photoshop. ;)

    BTW, good luck with the website, sounds interesting!


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    CuLT wrote:
    Web designers are a dime-a-dozen; good, and I mean really good web designers are worth every penny you pay them, imo. Though I think the people I'm talking about would be better described as web developers, rather than designers.

    Any fifteen year old with a warez copy of photoshop/imageready(?) can be a "web designer".
    Indeed. Hiring a web designer is like hiring an architect. Asking your mate who's made a couple of mediocre sites is like asking your mate who took LC Technical Drawing to design you a house.


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    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    Well, not quite. Collapsing websites rarely kill people.


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Yes, but they take your soul :)


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    #11
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    I probably shouldn't read this forum - I don't do much except thread-spoil, and occasionally scream about SQL injection.


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    #12
    kitcaths
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭kitcaths


    Thanks everyone for commmenting. 18 years late :-D, I gave the site a shot with a developer who half created it but with college and expenses it never got further. Lost the domain gamexchange.ie so didnt take it back up.

    Thinking about it now I still firmly believe it could have went somewhere for some time at least and help others unable to afford to trade in or buy new games. Swapping was a answer :-)



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