Ask HN: Where to get a web designer/design?

So I have a few small projects on-going that I play around with in my spare time, however I am having a hard time getting a decent web design created for them.

Examples:

1. WhatPortIs.com

The concept is fairly simple and the current design is basically made up of a landing page from themeforest that I butchered around, however it doesn't render great on some devices, fonts are awful, and you can just generally tell it's not fit for purpose.

Finally I want to add a lot more content on the pages which makes this design no longer scalable due to the layout.

Basically my problem is that I am not a web designer, web designers are quite expensive for a none profitable side project, and theme forest type designs that are in budget just aren't made with this kind of layout in mind, they are trying to satisfy the masses that want a business or shop website etc.

2. route.im

So after a few painful days of playing around with HTML/CSS this is what I managed to come up with, it's not amazing but does the job I suppose...

Still it doesn't look that appealing and there are also some layout issues.

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So I suppose my question is, do i need to bite the bullet and pay for a web designer to create something that actually works?

Thanks! Tom