For months I have been working with a firm in India on my new site designed for photographers, journalists and videographers as well as international members of the Press Corps and Media. The site was originally designed to look like the CNN web site, but we don't want it to look like an exact copy or a clone of their site.
Most of the site is complete with all the back end code done and most of the content, but now it needs a highly creative graphic artist/designer to go in, change it around a bit, clean up the pages and make sure that all the forms look great, etc. We will also need a few banners (static, flash or animated gifs) for the tops of the pages and possibly for the sides of the pages too.
I have had problems with programmers that think they can design and really can't. I need a talented designer who has great ideas and can go in and just knock this off in a couple of days. The site is written in PHP and has 4 parts to a page, the top or header, the left nav, the bottom and the middle which will change with new content. So it is really a template more then anything else that is now needed. I am open to redesign, either total or just minor.
I have lots of stock photos for the designer to use and do HTML and some design myself, but I know my limits, but willing to help out once the template is done with the individual pages. I want this site to look like a major news service, but also have all the stuff needed in a member based site. Our members will be able to upload images, articles and thier resume to their very own members profile area. So much of the data and photos will feed from a database.
The budget is a small one, but I think the job won't take much time for a good graphic artist to do. My Indian programmers are waiting for the site to be cleaned up so we can go into it page by page to make sure all the functions are working properly.
I am hoping that when I find a talented designer that can work with a tight budget, it will be the beginning of a relationship. We have approximately 10 sites now and building more, so there will be other opportunities to help out.
You must be able to create your own graphics from scratch, all those little graphics are what give a site personality, so you must be able to do this. Most web designers do what I do and grab elements and put them together on a page, I need an artist to "Create" the original look and feel of this site and give it a unique personality...Can you do this for me?
You can view the current site at: [login to view URL] and see exactly what needs to be done.
Thanks for your time.
Len Rapoport
Hazlet, NJ