Recommendations for Good Website Designers

[LeRoy]

Originally Posted by Simon

Thanks, LeRoy ... yep, I know the Dickmans ... kind of like The Ramones except everyone's a Dickman.

Fonz - Thanks, I'll take a look... and may hit you up to see what they did.

Annie ... I like the new version of creamysites.com (and those customized logos you have on some of the pages-- good idea ).

I wish I had the time to do everything I want to do myself, but I've given up on that dream. That's one of the reasons for this thread. We were kicking around various ideas we don't have time to do ourselves in the chatroom and more than a few of us agreed we'd pay someone to execute a few designs for us if we knew for sure who was a good designer/site builder who could code to the current/future standards we'd like to see used.

Some good recommendations received so far, including the folks who didn't want to out themselves in this thread.

Please do keep them coming.

No problem Simon. I took a stab with Dickmans.

Do you have some site examples that you like? Any links to a site that you can show us?

Or are you looking to go outside the box with this one?

[Simon]

SirMoby - Thanks, that's the second vote we've gotten for BlueDesignStudios. I like that new HoneySchool tour, even though it's a table-based layout. And from the BDS website it looks like they can do table-less too.

Originally Posted by LeRoy

Do you have some site examples that you like? Any links to a site that you can show us? Or are you looking to go outside the box with this one?

Well, I like a lot of sites for a lot of different reasons. Personally I'm not looking so much to go outside the box as to be able to develop more site concepts than I can do all by myself. I 'd say that's the case for each of the people who've expressed interest in finding more site builders/designers.

So it's not so much about what kind of sites we like or even what kind of sites we want to have built. The idea here is to try to get as many first-hand recommendations as we can for site builders/designers who are capable of making one basic design that can flow across several sections of a website.

The sites may have sections like a blog, link list, galleries section, dvd theater, dating sites pages, live cams pages, fake tube section, etc, etc. What's important is that the designer/builder knows how to make a design that isn't only good for a blog, or only good for a TGP, but can make something that's an overall site template for all sections. And, of course, can code that up using only CSS and XHTML (strict preferred) without relying on tables or any older legacy code to get around browser and platform bugs.

Basically, we want to know who the best site designers/builders are, the ones who are capable to creating sites which look good and are easy to navigate for a surfer, and which are easy to work with and easy to expand on as desired for the site owner. And can do that in nicely marked-up CSS and XHTML which validates with no errors.

So... anyone know anyone else who can do these kinds of things?




P.S. I should mention that I (and others) realize that not every good web designer/site builder is also a great graphic artist and illustrator. So while it would be a plus if one person or team can do it all, I don't mind using one source for the graphics, cartoon characters, logos, or whatever else may be needed, but having the site design, layout and coding done by someone else.