Full website re-design required. Cosmetic design only

[businessbecause]

Hi,

I work on the graphics and design for www.businessbecause.com

Currently we are expanding into a much bigger website with a lot more content and functionality.

We have a web developer building the site for us in php. so all we need is a professional new look for the website.

We're looking for someone who's designed online newspaper/magazine and/or networking websites. We basically need someone with experience in dealing with content rich websites. We have a lot of information and material to get on each page and we need a simple layout and design.

Once the website design is done we'd also like a new logo/brand + usage guidelines.

We need someone who has time to start straight away.

Our favorite website designs at the moment are:

NY magazine
Slate magazine
Nylon magazine

Please send me a PM for further details.

Thanks

[meadsy]

Hi, sounds interesting I'd love to be considered. I'll drop you a PM.

[SparkCreative]

PM sent. Thanks.

[JJS74]

I would love to quote for this work please send me a brief to jordan@jscreative.co.uk

[VITATIA]

Hi, we can provide the design for you with initial designs sent within 1 working day,
our site is VITATIA Graphic and Web Design In Wrexham | Designers for the entertainment and leisure industries

if you want to send details through we can work out a quote
thanks
Jen

[Anne Armadillo Creative]

Hi
If you would a quotation from Armadillo Creative please don't hesitate to contact me.
Good luck and kind regards
Anne Client Services Director

[businessbecause]

Hi everyone,

We've got a designer from this forum post! Thanks to everyone who contacted me with regards to this work good luck in the future!

Cheers,

Sian | BusinessBecause

[SparkCreative]

Out of interest, who did you choose and what were your reasons? It would be useful to know. Thanks.

[businessbecause]

We're using Creative Protege. They are a young company (like us), they have a vast army of young creative talent, we liked their website as it was clean and clear to navigate to their portfolio where they have covered big clients. They had a very good, approachable telephone manner and are comfortable with re-working their designs until we're happy without charging overtime/by the hour. They can start straight away.

The key things that we considered for this piece of work were:
- Previous work - this kind of comes down to personal taste
- Professional and approachable - full contact details from website/email signature are helpful!
- Careful pricing - We were obviously prepared to pay, but one person offers us the job for hundreds and the other is pricing well into the thousands, in the end we went for someone in between. We didn't want to go with the cheapest or the most expensive - think carefully about your market before you consider your pricing.
- East to navigate website - when you've been looking through 40+ websites it's really frustrating to not be able to clearly see a portfolio

hope this helps!

[SparkCreative]

Ok... this is going to sound like sour grapes but...

If it's the same Creative Protege I've found, it seems like they'll give your brief to a college graduate to work on for free and then charge you for it? That's fine, and I'm sure it keeps costs down, but how can you have any guarantee of the quality of work you're going to get when you have no idea who'll be working on it? In your brief, you asked for someone with experience - that's not what you're going to get from those guys.

Like I said, I'm not trying to attack, just interested in the reasoning.

Oh and apologies if I've got the wrong Creative Protege.