Looking To Trade Web Design For Programming Time
This Web site is in sore need of a redesign — something cleaner, way prettier, brandable and unique — and it’s painfully obvious to me I’m not the guy to get that done.
So to all the ad agencies, creative houses, Web designers and graphic artists out there: I’m looking to trade my time and materials for your time and materials.
If you’ve got the skills to apply a brand to this site that kicks much ass, I’ve got the skills to hack your CMS, ride herd on your troublesome Web server, write you a WordPress plugin, fix your stove-up online store, clean up your messy database, build you an ASP.NET / PHP site, do some Microsoft Office VBA, apply some jQuery or API code, and much more.
This site runs off WordPress and I’m pretty neurotic about making sure it’s the latest version. I have zero brand identity at the moment in terms of aesthetics, so you’ll have near total creative freedom. And since I’m in the business, you can be sure I’m not going to be one of those pains in the ass who expects the moon and stars for nothing, or who constantly asks for tweaks, needless gizmos or ridiculous “features.”
The only hard requirements on my end:
- The design must use WordPress coding standards and follow best practices (e.g., no hard-coding of menus / widgets on template pages; style hooks for unique divs / sections; no deprecated WordPress functions; page, index, archive, comment and other templates put in unique files; etc.)
- It must be XHTML 1 Transitional and CSS 2 compliant. I’d prefer if it was HTML 5 and CSS 3 compliant, but I’m not going to be pushy about that.
- No Flash or other animations.
Interested? Shoot me an email at dougvanderweide@gmail.com describing what you think would work here and what you’d like me to do in return.
