On a tight budget: Looking for a web designer to do a personal site

Red Kooga

Ive probably no more than 300 to 500 euros to spend on a personal site Im looking to get up before Christmas. Nothing too exaustive, just a nice pro look with a flash intro.

With tools like Swish out there now making things like this easier than ever are there any takers?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Red Kooga wrote:

just a nice pro look with a flash intro.

*brain explodes*

grahamor

no one with any sense uses flash intros anymore. They are a waste of time.

Maybe have a nice little animation on the homepage instead.

What is your site going to be about ?

Cr8or

pm sent

kstanl

Swish? Flash intro?

For 500 I'm sure someone could knock up a basic design and do some CSS'age. You're far better off getting a small, standards-compliant brochureware site than a Frontpage job with a crappy Flash intro. Plus Flash is time-consuming to do properly - and it's tough to find anyone who's half-way decent. A nice simple XHTML site is all you need by the sound of it!

ButtermilkJack

Hey Red Kooka, you get sorted yet? I might be insterested...

Cr8or

Red Kooka sent you a pm .. no reply yet?

ButtermilkJack

Cr8or wrote:

Red Kooka sent you a pm .. no reply yet?

Hey Cr8or, I wont step on your toes

Maybe post if you hear anything

Webmonkey

Whats the status on this project?

I wouldn't mind doing it. I need the money to get my car loan paid off. PM me if you interested and want to see some of my portfolio

Red Kooga

Could anyone PM'ing please include links to past work, thanks. I'll be replying to those sent already tonight and tomorrow, one link in particular caught my eye.

dahamsta

grahamor wrote:

no one with any sense uses flash intros anymore. They are a waste of time.

Flash intros are fine on entertainment sites, just like they've always been, just like they've always been a bad idea on information sites. It's all about using the right tool for the right job.

rsynnott

Ken Shabby wrote:

Flash intros are fine on entertainment sites, just like they've always been, just like they've always been a bad idea on information sites. It's all about using the right tool for the right job.

No, flash intros are never appropriate anywhere. Have you ever gone to a site and thought, "Oh, joy, a flash intro"? No, of course you haven't. And neither has anybody else, besides Macromedia shareholders.

dahamsta

rsynnott wrote:

Have you ever gone to a site and thought, "Oh, joy, a flash intro"?

I don't think "oh joy" about anything, but I have gone to sites with flash intros and enjoyed them. The NRG site, for example, used to have the best flash intro I've ever seen - not anymore, unfortunately, and the site is a lot worse off because of that - and their clients had incredible intros too. If people in the enterainment industry didn't... entertain, we'd all be very bored bunnies.

(Your opinion doesn't make you right btw. Show me stats that back up your assertion and then I'll believe you. By the same token I'll add to the above that I'm not suggesting that entertainment site /should/ have flash intros, just that the opinion of a few shouldn't dictate what feels right to the designer.)

adam

rsynnott

*blinks*

Okay, I stand corrected. You're the first person I've ever seen admit to liking them personally.

I'll keep my FlashBlock for a while longer, I think

dahamsta

rsynnott wrote:

*blinks*

Okay, I stand corrected. You're the first person I've ever seen admit to liking them personally.

Liking some of them. Most of them are rubbish, but that's the fault of the designer, not the concept itself.

I'll keep my FlashBlock for a while longer, I think

Let's not go down the Firefox road... again...

denhamd2

IMO its best to steer clear of flash intro's. I can do you up a nice graphically designed site which is fully CSS/XHTML complient for less than 500 euros. Please PM me if you need more details.

rsynnott

Ken Shabby wrote:

Let's not go down the Firefox road... again...

What do you mean?

denhamd2 wrote:

IMO its best to steer clear of flash intro's. I can do you up a nice graphically designed site which is fully CSS/XHTML complient for less than 500 euros. Please PM me if you need more details.

Hmm, are you aware that the "Cheap Irish Web Hosting" in your sig is located somewhere in Canada? I wasn't aware we'd annexed it

denhamd2

my mistake, I had meant something along the lines of "An Irish Company Which Provides Cheap Web Hosting" in an abbrieviated form, I will change it now. cheers.

rsynnott

denhamd2 wrote:

my mistake, I had meant something along the lines of "An Irish Company Which Provides Cheap Web Hosting" in an abbrieviated form, I will change it now. cheers.

Good, good...

smeggle

rsynnott wrote:

Good, good...

Hiyah Robbie


Seriously though OP you couild use a pre-written xhtml/css based template system which can be dynamically driven via mysql/php for updating txt/images via an online control panel...

Plenty of free stuff over at www.hotscripts.com which could do it - then you can spend most of your 3-500euro on a reasonable design template...

pm me if you want details on some of the stuff I use.......

rsynnott

smeggle wrote:

Hiyah Robbie

*hides*

Red Kooga

Keep the PMs coming, am still undecided. Does access to the control panel for me and Admin come with most designs?

To those Ive yet to reply to, I will before the week is out.

Cr8or

no thats a web hosting or cms service

Red Kooga

Ive made up my mind on this one and Id like to thank anyone who took the time to PM me offering their services. I recieved over 20 PMs altogether so apologies if I didnt get to reply personally to you.

Cheers

rsynnott

Red Kooga wrote:

I recieved over 20 PMs altogether so apologies if I didnt get to reply personally to you.

:eek:
They circle like sharks, beneath the inky waves. Apparently.