Hey I suppose this is the dreaded first post by someone asking for help, but I'm at my wits end. Started a new job recently and foolish told them I could make a website if I had to. Lo and behold, second day in and they ask me to make one for them. When I said I could make a website I meant something small, but think I've bitten off more than I can chew at this stage. Made a website in photoshop (yeah..I know!) and tried to use image ready and fireworks to slice it up but since my skills with internet are rather limited I've been doing my nut in for the last two weeks on it. Posting here is an abolsute last resort. So I was hoping to get someone here who could turn the psd into css and html for me? Just need the basic page done and I can take it from there. I of course dont expect it done for free so I will pay you via paypal from my own pocket. It's nothing fancy, honestly. Just can't seem to get it working myself. any help is GREATLY appreciated regards Mark
Photoshop should be used for graphic designing only, you still need to code in html,css text part of the website, you may use dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver has a 30 day trial I believe, which is great, and should be plenty. Once you have created the Web site you will need a domain name through godaddy.com or 123-reg.co.uk and some web hosting. Expect to pay about $5 per month for this. Alternatively, tell your boss that you can make Web sites, but not brilliant ones and that you would be better off project managing the web site, and outsourcing the development of it to another company. That way, you can sell it to your boss that yes, you can make it, but to get the best out of it you are better off outsourcing it. What do they need? A simple five page site? An E-Commerce web site?
Hello, I can do the slicing, css coding, xhtml coding for you. My time will be 10 - 15 days (I got to site on 3 exams...) Tell me your budget, pm me if you are interested. Regards, Nasty Nappy
"Nasty Nappy" I'm sure he knows how to find a developer if needed, but I think it's just advice he needs for now! Mark, to follow up, creating a Web site is easy, anyone can do it really. Do you have any graphic design skills? Any knowledge of photoshop or fireworks? There are lots of free open source template sites out there, such as opendesigns.org and openwebdesign.org where you can download a template and edit it in dreamweaver. Simply choose "save as" to save and create new pages. Easy peasy.
hey.. i am interested in doing the job... plz PM me the details and your budget as well... i accept PayPal..
One more thing Mark, it looks like your going to get a few dozen Private Messages and replies here asking for the work! A couple of things to note: You get what you pay for Try local companies that you can meet face to face any company you go for, search them up on the internet for good or bad reviews and take that into consideration ALWAYS look at their portfolio
Cheers for all the advice and help and offers! I have a design(ish) background since I work at the printers. The page I did looks ok I suppose and I did a few small websites in the past but none have ever been techinally very good. I've attached a preview of what i did (the text is all over the place-just me seeing how things would look etc etc). Just having problems making it functional. I did my best and used tables for the structure and used css for the bg image, the text and some borders. The page they're after isn't anything too big. Just an information site really so if I figured I'd be able to handle it, though now I'm a bit unnerved about it Thanks again
If you didnt read the first post carefully, I am posting the bit of it again for you to read it : Read it again please. And Allied , Do you want me to slice and code it for you? You didnt pm me BTW your design looks good
That you come from print isn't really a good thing : ) because the web isn't print and follows different rules. This isn't just you, this is very common with website designers (designers here meaning the Photoshop folks). How much are the other pages different from each other? Who is the target audience? What browsers are they using? Does your company care about valid, semantic, well-written code or do they just want some okay-looking (with great graphics) website thrown up? Do they care about everyone (even the blind) having acces to this site? Tjobbe is right with several things, like you get what you pay for etc etc but the real problem you have right now is that you are in a Lemon Market. Unless you write code yourself, your only manner of knowing how good the product is you've bought is how it looks in your browser of choice. That's it. You won't know if it's good code, bad code, okay code, shite code... slicing PSD's is one of the worser ways of making a website, as it's a good way to turn a little website into a very (unecessarily) large file. Looking at your design, it looks very rigid. Where can the page grow? Is it flexible width (I'd say no, but not sure what you want it to do)? Are you okay with using all those images necessary to get all the little rounded corners etc (lots of little images make a page longer to load... I won't notice on broadband here but dial-up users get the crap end of the stick here)? What's the menu supposed to do when grandma, with her eyes not being so good, enlarges the text? Does the black bar get wider, or do the menu items wrap underneath? Or both? Are you willing to "fake" that semi-transparency you've got, or would you insist on actual semi-transparent PNGs (and then what do you want to do with IE6 which can't handle alpha transparency without some bloataceous javascript?)? Or is just background opacity fine? All that blah aside, it is a very nice-looking design. Before taking PM bids, could you post some answers to the quesitons above, state how many pages the whole site is likely to be, any scripting necessary, etc? You'll get more accurate quotes when people know better how much work the project actually is.
For sure I agree with the above, it's an information site, but are the Search Engines going to be able to even index the information on your site properly, if at all because your font looks as though it's part of an image, so it's not machine readable? Also working with tables is not good either, it's in the past. Prepare your site for the future now, and create a tableless layout. Because if anybody in the company knows about proper web design you could be in trouble !! To be honest if your layout is going to be simple and use the same template for all the pages i.e same header and footer i'd create one for you for free to give myself a challenge!! Just post up the screenshot on how you expect the template to look and i'll have a go.
Hmm, for those Environment and FAQ boxes, I'd use Gilder-Levin image replacement... that way he can have the funky font while still having text googlie-readable, and available for anyone surfing without images. For the menu, though, that can just be a whatever font... I'm partial to Georgia myself but he's got a sans-serif there... Actually... looking at the text, this is a printing company.. damn, you've got to really look at typography! Surely there'll be a few more font nerds looking at a printer's site than normal... they appreciate seeing something like Helvetica or Gotham on a page : ) And they're likely to have those fonts installed. Mmm, Gotham would look very very nice on this page. It's clean. And the red poppies is a good image, looks all clean and bright... and a few bright colours are good for printer sites : )