M.T.D wrote: » There is a thread for this on the design forumhttp://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055802922 Put the details of what you require there. You will usually get a quick response.
Graham wrote: » Do you want a full/part time on-site designer, an off-shore designer, a design house/shop?
armabelle wrote: » a local freelance web & graphic designer
Graham wrote: » local to........ full-time/part-time super duper all singing all dancing or micro-budget level? Actually, thinking about it the answer is going to be the same. There's no significant site for soliciting freelance Irish web designers.
M.T.D wrote: » Just to clarify. You are looking for a web designer / web developer in Ireland that does not have an account on the most popular forum site in Ireland. Is there a particular reason for this? Is there a reason why doing a search for web designer Ireland in Google would not give you the list you want. I would have thought most "freelance" web designers would have a website or web presence of some kind.
armabelle wrote: » They can have an account. I just don't want to to work with someone who uses boards to get their clientele. No harm there I hope.
Adrian Hot Sneaker wrote: » Google is probably your best friend in this case unless you expect people whose livelihood is web development to recommend a competitor.
armabelle wrote: » Would classifieds be a good place to look?
Blacknight wrote: » http://www.creativeireland.com/ *might* be a place to look as well. I'm not sure how active it is these days.
armabelle wrote: » thanks, what about Adverts.ie and gumtree? are those only good for buying & selling things in Ireland?
Graham wrote: » You will find most web-designers advertising in the classifieds are a mix of pocket-money web designers, part-time web designers, students, template re-hashers and very very very occasionally professionals who may have recently gone out on their own.
armabelle wrote: » Oh ok thanks for the tip. What are template re-hashers?
Graham wrote: » The vast majority of classified-ad web designers would be template re-hashers. They buy an existing design from one of the website template providers (e.g. Themeforest), replace the dummy content/photos with yours and charge you a few hundred euro for the job. There's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, it should mean you get a higher standard of website at the really budget end of the market. On the downside your design won't be unique and it's still quite easy for an amateur to take a well designed template and make a complete balls of it as they insert your content. Your site may also be constrained to some degree by the original number of pages/navigation etc of the template you're using.
armabelle wrote: » Oh ok but wouldn't most web designers work off templates if they were offering all the functionality of a CMS for a decent price?
armabelle wrote: » Also, I tried to make a wordpress template look like I wanted once and had very little luck. I could change the logo and text in some parts but for most things I wanted to do I had to hire a developer to help me as they required CSS knowledge and HTML.
Graham wrote: » A decent price for a custom design is going to be very different to a decent price for replacing content in a template or tweaking an off the shelf WordPress/Drupal theme. To use a non web-development metaphor, if you're looking for a carpenter to make a coffee table a decent price for assembling an Ikea flat pack is going to be very different to a decent price for a custom piece made by a skilled cabinet maker. Sounds like you're looking for a basic html/css monkey and a theme rather than a web developer. There's millions of them around, you shouldn't have a problem finding someone locally that can help you and the small ads for part-timers may well be a good source.
armabelle wrote: » Why do you refer to such a person as a "monkey"?
Graham wrote: » I did change the terminology but you'd obviously quoted my post at that point. It's not a particularly skilled task usually only requiring a rudimentary understanding of html/css.
SpaceCowb0y wrote: » You have found me!! How can i help
armabelle wrote: » Your analogy seems rather unfair in the sense that I can assemble IKEA furniture and shouldn't need to pay anybody. I cannot customize a template as I don't have those skills. I would prefer to have a custom website with all those functions but how much would that cost compared to using a "theme" if I wanted a CMS website? If the price is similar then I could consider it. Do you only offer custom-built websites then?
armabelle wrote: » Do you only offer custom-built websites then?
armabelle wrote: » Oh Ok, I thought HTML and CSS was something you have to really learn.
Graham wrote: » You do have to learn but like anything there are varying degrees of learning/knowledge. A few days/weeks learning would should be sufficient to amend a template, maybe more to amend a template well, to build one from scratch would take several years worth of experience.
awec wrote: » As an aside, I think I'd have an easier time putting my trust in someone hired off boards if they have a decent post count than someone random off one of those freelance sites.
Graham wrote: » The analogy is quite fair in this day and age where a large percentage of recent school/college leavers have sufficient html/css skills to tweak a template.
