It's all about you get what you pay for (and especialy this indian/pakistany asian freelancers who lower prices)
I'd have to agree. I've stopped looking in the templates forum. These "amazing" and "must see" wordpress themes are far from amazing. They are usually ripped off crap. You know the quality of a theme when the owner has a BIN of $8.
I make very very good site for you. Very very cheap I make for you. Made for adsense site you like very very much. You like very very much, OK?
If you want a good designer, you're going to have to find one. Most likely, they aren't going to come to you, as they are too busy with work.
There are many good designers around here. And they aren't restricted to any single corner of the world. Ditto for crappy designers. Once you look around a bit. You will find someone well suited. Here on DP, it often happens that you have to go and find the best designers/writers etc. They won't come to you.
Maybe it would be a good way to divide the template section to "below 50$" and "higher than 50$", what do You think? I have some finished deisgns, which i don't sell, because i know that most people if see, that i want more than 20$ for .psd or 40$ for coded wordpress theme will laugh from my auction, because "this dude offer similar thing for 15$!"...
I can create some decent designs but here in UK my time is worth much more. If i spend 30 hours designing a quality template i will charge $40/h (If i was great at it). Now how many people on DP can afford a $1200 template? When you see people starting threads about "Wooohooo! I had my first click this month and made 20c!". Maybe if people were willing to spend such money there would have been quality designers... No offence, I love DP but it is a bit cheap. I find myself going elsewhere more often now in order to get higher quality services.
"decent" is what i can make. I was talking about top notch professional design for $1200 from a talented designer.
The only time DP has ever, and will probably ever categorize listings based on their value is the <$6 in freebies
Our company are currently looking to employ a high quality website designer who also has experience of php. Unfortunately there isn't one good designer here who we are interested in. Could anyone point us in the right direction?
there are good designer si DP and the fact most good designers alreayd have enough customers and they dont have time to post around and reply to each and every "need designer" "designer contest" threads. So you have to look for who's best and get them form your side.
If you do not get top class designers here in dp, you can always look for alternative options in the net. The truth is that high quality designers do not always hang out at forums like this because they concentrate more on their work and for them time is money. It is your duty to find a suitable person and not blame a muhamed from India or Pakistan or any other Asian country...
I tried here. Here designs where good, but she was way behind here deadline. Looks like you either have to settle with crappy muhamed from India, quality designers that doesn't even know the meaning of the word deadline or quality designers wanting $5000 for a 1 page design. Yeah, you would apply actually. Your designs are quite good. Let me know if your keen on working on a model/photography site, I would be interested in a price quote from you! Are you freaking kidding me?
I'm from india but a british citizen now working as software architect, still no problem saying I've had very bad experience like these here in DP. Crappy designs, don't understand (or not listening) to our needs, unlimited revisions (yes, waste of time)!! you can see how pathetic, the design is [my sig]
Then why did you settle with that design? The last three designers I've worked with I've put of because what they presented me was crap! And I'm not going to waste money paying for a crappy site I'm not happy with..
Well, I am also a designer and have worked here with some clients. They are happy with my work and I am happy with their cooperation and great communication. Yes, I see there are many people who just do design work very cheap, but cheap is not always the best. I am also not very expensive designer but I don't look money while working for anyone, I just prefer the satisfaction of my client. HE should be happy and everything will be in my favor automatically