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Ask HN: Looking for a great Web Site Designer. Who do you recommend?
Hi,
We are Gerger (www.gerger.co), the creators of Formspider (www.theformspider.com), the Web 2.0 framework for Oracle PL/SQL developers. We are preparing a new version of our product and we would like to renew our product web site www.theformspider.com along with it.
Our product Formspider is for a specific group of developers namely, the Oracle PL/SQL developers. It's mainly used in mid to large size companies to build Budgeting, Accounting, Order Management, HR, ERP etc.. software.
Current Web site was done by us a year and a half ago. It's nice but building web sites is not our focus. The site is also showing its age.
Formspider impresses our users with its simple and elegant design. It is perceived as an unusually high quality, very innovative product built with care and attention to detail. We would like our new web site reflect these facts.
We want a simple yet beautiful design in our web site. Readable large fonts, excellent copyright, gorgeous pictures, icons and screen shots should provide a enjoyable experience to the visitor. We don't want run of the mill, stock photos, icons and text anywhere on the site. Each page needs to be individually crafted and be of excellent quality.
The entire goal of the web site is to reflect the high quality of our product.
Our favorite product, company web sites are www.apple.com (you should have seen this coming at this point :-) ) and http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/
We've been struggling to find a freelancer or a team that can get this done. I thought of asking you on HN hoping that you can help.
Best,
Yalim
- mapleoin 14y agoThere should be a who's hiring thread later today, that would be a better place to post this: http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=whoishiring http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=whoishiring
- yalimgerger 14y agoThank you. We are not hiring. We are looking for a freelancer or a company to do the work. Would that still be the right place to post?
- orangethirty 14y agoThere is also a freelancer thread. Keep posted, it should go live in the coming minutes.
- mryan 14y agoI can strongly recommend Dennis Covent - http://denniscovent.com/ http://denniscovent.com/ He recently designed a site for me, and I was really impressed with the quality of his work, and his responsiveness and attitude throughout the project.
- yalimgerger 14y agoI'll check it out. Many thanks.
- michalkosecki 14y agoI'd be happy to help & support you :) please contact me at contact@michalkosecki.com www.michalkosecki.com
- yalimgerger 14y agoThanks Michal. I'll check out your web site and get back to you.
- michalkosecki 14y agoThe website is still under construction but you should definately check out my works on deviantart http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/gallery/ http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/gallery/ I found out that we have a common friend - Marcin from PlaceChallenge. I'm Art Director at PlaceChallenge. :)
- yalimgerger 14y agoYes I noticed too. :-). Hope all is well with PlaceChallenge. I looked your work. Quite nice. Did you make any other product web sites other than PlaceChallenge web site?
- michalkosecki 14y agoWell, most of people like these projects: http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/art/FanPage-Trender-two-versions-283923928 http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/art/FanPage-Trender-two-... http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/art/Mobeelizer-website-design-296614336 http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/art/Mobeelizer-website-d... (please download these and check out the details :)) From time to time I'm making small landing pages like this: http://noacowork.pl/karta/ http://noacowork.pl/karta/ And in case you've missed it - similar pages for PlaceChallenge games: http://runawayapp.com/ http://runawayapp.com/ http://www.serpentapp.com/ http://www.serpentapp.com/ There are also few more projects that I can't show yet, due to the NDA, sorry.
- sidmitra 14y agoFeel free to ping us at http://www.cloudshuffle.com http://www.cloudshuffle.com
- yalimgerger 14y agoThanks. Will take a look at your site and get back to you.
- yalimgerger 14y agoDid you do any startup/product web sites that are not in your portfolio on your web site?
- sidmitra 14y agoYeah quite a few. I haven't updated the site in almost 6 months + there are NDA issues with a few. So until they launch can't add some of them to my folio.
- yalimgerger 14y agoI'd be interested in seeing them.
- sidmitra 14y agoSure. You can find my email in my HN profile
- joeteplow 14y agocheck out mikekus.com hes incredibly talented and works with a bunch of YC Co's. Pricey but if you've got the money to spend....
- fabiandesimone 14y agoAwesome design... last quote was in the XX.XXX range though.
- fabiandesimone 14y agoHey Yalim, What I usually do is go to Dribble and search for designers that I like. I´ll contact them and work out a deal. Most of the designs I´ve done for my projects were done that way and it has worked out great.
- ashraful 14y agoIf you're still looking, check out my portfolio at http://www.madebyargon.com http://www.madebyargon.com My email is: inlith@gmail.com
- prehnra 14y agoMy best advice is to find sites you like with similar functionality to what you need and try to find out who did those. Often companies will share who they used. If it is an internal person then he or she might be willing to share inspirations or point to freelancers with similar approaches. Note that this isn't really about the "look." Good designers are flexible enough to work in many styles and are always trying to solve your unique problem. What you are trying to spot is quality and familiarity with the technologies you need.
- 4midori 14y agoWe'd be glad to help. We have a stable of designers with different aesthetics, I'm sure we'll have one to match. http://versastudio.com http://versastudio.com