Pay a web designer $900?

[DrewDevil]

I don't know how to build websites and I don't want to know. I've dicked around with wordpress and bluevoda and found them completely frustrating.

I have contacted a few web designers about building my monetized blog site (basically I am copying stevepavlina.com) and my lowest bid so far is $900 plus $65 per hour to maintain/update.

I really don't think I have the time or inclination to build it myself, but I don't know if I want to flip a coin with craigslist either.

Thoughts?

[Bet-and-win88]

I would try to get some connections to a computer scientist and ask him. Students are pretty cheap and also good.
I asked a professional web designer and an acquaintance makes it for 1/3 of his price. Of course, he's a nice guy and makes updates for free.

[Esection]

guru.com

best site ever.

[Alltimed]

That looks like a default wordpress template with some extra pages and some adsense injection. If someone is trying to charge you 900$ for this they must think you are retarded. To have someone set this up it shouldnt cost more than 100$ and take a few hours.

[elus2]

Yeah there's no way it will take longer than 2 hours to get a reasonable facsimile of Pavlina's site. You don't even have to hack out a new theme if you use Wordpress.

1. Wordpress/Mysql admin setup will take 10 mins
2. Choose/implement a theme 5 mins
3. Add static links 5 mins
4. Setup google adsense 5 mins
5. Add links to sidebar 10 mins
6. Setup newsletter email subscription widget 20 mins (depends on availability of addon)

There's no way you should pay $900 for the above.

[Evan]

Check out elance.com.
Also, I think Pavilna's site looks pretty bad and based on the couple articles of his I've read I think he's a raging idiot. So don't copy him too much.

[majesty2009]

Take a look on ebay, there should be some templete site for sale that would be acceptable for what your trying to get done, but if you plan to make money I would get someone good.

If you are new to blogging Im sure that you will find this site helpful. There are lots of tips and somewhere on the site he talks about how he hired someone to build his blog. I dont want to dig around and find it, but Im sure you will find some usefull info.

http://problogger.net/

[DrewDevil]

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Check out elance.com.
Also, I think Pavilna's site looks pretty bad and based on the couple articles of his I've read I think he's a raging idiot. So don't copy him too much.

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I'm copying his money-making skillz, not his weird articles. He is making $40K/month with the site after 2 years.

[majesty2009]

Wow I know nothing about this. Im going to have to look into it.

[DrewDevil]

Okay, posted the project on guru and elance. We'll see what happens.