Any web designers on here who fancy doing me a website?

Jimbob wrote on 20. Jan 2011 at 12:05:


Agreed. It's not rocket science and you can save a lot of cash (and avoid being reliant on a 3rd part for something so critical) by having a go yourself.

Kevin

Grab a free template you like and have a play.

I've done lots of websites in my time, including a series for a certain huge recruitment company (kind of ironic being unemployed right now) but in my current position I am not able to help I'm afraid.

aaronjb wrote on 20. Jan 2011 at 12:10:


Sage words indeed. Having said that, as long as you don't want something out of the ordinary or some gaudy flash intro (which would prompt me to give up and pop down the the next result in my google search results anyway) you can blag a lot of the look and feel by taking an established theme and inserting your own pictures, etc.

Take, for example, a current work-in-progress for the local radio club. Budget: zero. Spare time: Precious Little. Need: Desperate.

Took an evening with the laptop on my knees in front of the TV to install to some hosting space, find a theme that did what we wanted and bodge in a few photos to personalise it. OK, it's blatantly "yet another wordpress site" but it was up and running quickly, does exactly what we needed and looks tidy enough.

www.hogsback-arc.org.uk

I've just got 2 blokes pestering me to remove the evidence of their receding hairlines from the net now.

Kevin

UrbanFox wrote on 20. Jan 2011 at 12:30:


It's good for a specific type of web site, I would say. More orientated to a "blog" style site than a static hierarchy of pages although it'll do a basic example of the latter.

Of course, you might want much more - customer forums, online shops, etc. in which case it gets much more complicated.

Kevin

UrbanFox wrote on 20. Jan 2011 at 12:30:


There's a fella I used to work with up in Newcastle who's a very good designer and knocks out basic sites for £150 or so.. http://webdesign-newcastle.co.uk/ - his name is Paul, if you speak to him.

(He did the pretty bits, I did the nuts & bolts, when we worked together on stuff )

Have a search on the net for Joomla.
ive made both the websites for both sides of my job and with easy.
It may not be suitable for what u need as its an open source Content management system, but is really easy to use, dont need to no how to code, thousand of themes (u can get free ones or premium ones)
if you are fairly competent on the comp and hav acess to a program like photoshop of paintshop pro, once you have the theme u like its fairly simple to find the images files for the theme then u can changes colours etc (both my sites are the same themes, i just changed the colours via the image files)

let me know if this helps or want more info, and i shall help anyway i can

Radiomarko wrote on 20. Jan 2011 at 20:46:



Splendid.