refer me a good designer

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stockfire

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Need a good designer who can create a very, very simple corporate web site in the style of LivingSocial

i.e. High def image as background, when user scrolls the background stays in place... If this style has a name, tell me.

Posted it on elance and got 30 useless applications - Where the hell are the halfway decent designers?

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You're confusing the two.

You need a designer to design the site..
You need a coder to implement those features onto the site.

A designer can only do PSD design files (adding logo, changing layout around), they can't setup all of that up on the website and make sure it functions like that.
 
Ps. That is going to be expensive as hell to setup that. Every coder is going to be turned away from the simple fact that it pulls in data from locations, and all of that fancy functions jazz. Static background is easy, etc.

But if it's for a corp site, where the about us going, contact info going, etc. Seems like you need a layout and a plan, you need to draw out first before trying to get someone to modify this.

I design and code myself and while I can replicate this pixel for pixel, there's too many missing details you haven't provided. Get rid of those features and make it simple, and provide a layout and for the cost you're looking at around $800-$900+.
 
ok sure I need a coder then, as I already have the background graphic.

The site on top of the graphic will be very simple, it's like a hedge fund so the site must be password protected etc. So I really just need some contact details up there.
 
First, and most importantly, what in the actual fuck is that picture? It looks like a fucking guy with a wig on. Holy fucking fail porn batman. If I was mod you'd be banned for that horrendous display of taste.




As for the designer part...

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He did most of the designs here as well:
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He also does pretty good video production IMO:

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Skype - hdmhughes
Email - jon@hughesdigitalmedia.com
 
contract said:
You're confusing the two.

You need a designer to design the site..
You need a coder to implement those features onto the site.

A designer can only do PSD design files (adding logo, changing layout around), they can't setup all of that up on the website and make sure it functions like that.
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lol, wut? Thanks for speaking for the whole design community by telling him what a designer can and can't do. There are plenty of designers around that can handle more than just a PSD file.

I have a ton of these kind of sites bookmarked and have done a couple myself for clients, but for a good selection of inspirational examples, simply Google... https://www.google.com/search?q=sites+with+full+page+backgrounds and look at some of the showcase sites listed there with 50 or 80 examples, etc.
 
Fatbat said:
lol, wut? Thanks for speaking for the whole design community by telling him what a designer can and can't do. There are plenty of designers around that can handle more than just a PSD file.

I have a ton of these kind of sites bookmarked and have done a couple myself for clients, but for a good selection of inspirational examples, simply Google... https://www.google.com/search?q=sites+with+full+page+backgrounds and look at some of the showcase sites listed there with 50 or 80 examples, etc.
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Most* designers can't handle really technical coding, it's just not in their DNA.. I've never meet a designer who can code as well as a programmer, and I sure have never met a coder who can design as well as a designer. The two just don't mix, they usually just pick on side and then come together within a company or development firm.
 
contract said:
Most* designers can't handle really technical coding, it's just not in their DNA.. I've never meet a designer who can code as well as a programmer, and I sure have never met a coder who can design as well as a designer. The two just don't mix, they usually just pick on side and then come together within a company or development firm.
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Fair enough, they are a rare breed. As best I can tell, stockfire's not looking for exceptionally technical coding though.
 
ffs this is like the 3rd request for a designer that shows a page with a couple dozen divs and some css.

The real pain isn't building that page it's getting all the graphics. Are you supplying the images you want displayed? A functional wireframe of those layouts would take an hour. Having a developer choose graphics based on some broad idea is a nightmare. Having a graphic designer come up with the visuals from scratch would cost a lot if you don't like the first thing they come up with. Best if you supply exactly what you want, and ask them to present it in the same way as those sites.

If you're scraping the images from external sources you need to state that, and it requires more programming, a database, and you need to explain what you want to happen. If you're manually updating the listings you need to mention how you want it to work. If you want a backend or something to edit the database that the images/links are pulled from, etc

But a couple hours reading at http://www.w3schools.com/ and you could make it yourself.
 
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