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My site looks like $hit any designers want to make a couple of hundred bucks

2 pointsashleyreddy11 comments

Hi Guys, my site looks like crap (www.paperhater.com) . I want a more web 2.0 feel to it. If anyone has any skills in this area and wants to make a $200.00 please contact me at ashleyreddy <at> hotmail . I'm not looking for the most unique design so if you had some css/html/js that you could legally repurpose that would work. Thanks

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Looks like you've already got a $200 site to me.

Your comment is mean spirited. It's meaningless and adds no value. Perhaps you should watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU It's about Paul Graham's no asshole rule.

I thought the guy is complimenting you. Anyway, relax dude.

Your website does not look so bad. What you need first is a clear presentation of your product. Start by having one simple headline explaining what it does and one call to action. Get rid of the pricing page considering there's no detail on it anyway. See this article for more help - http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/landing...

If you are not looking for a unique design, just run with a wordpress theme - see woothemes, themeforest, richwp.

no, it's pretty awful. but $200 isn't likely to solve it.

You can get a good wordpress theme for $25.

Yea it doesn't look so bad. A little redesign of the homepage could make it look good.

take a look at this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1838273

or contact him directly at: konjevic at gmail com

buy something in themeforest

You're not looking for just a designer, you're looking for a designer and front-end developer. Rarely do you find someone who is good at both.

Minimum wage is around $8/hour and $200 gives you 25 hours (3 working days). This is for custom design, custom cross-browser development and testing. Yeah, you say you're OK with some repurposed design but that isn't really going to solve your problem.

Can you not do better than $200? If you could do $500 I bet you'd get a different caliber of responses - assuming you don't request change after change after change. Even $500 is absolute peanuts, though.

Regardless, this is just my 2 cents. Good luck.

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