Website Design(Er)

[AjarnP]

Hey folks

I need a website design and would be super-grateful if anyone has any experience with a designer here in the Rai.

Yes, I do know that there are squillions of websites that let me do it myself. And no, I don't want to do it that way, but thanks for the recommendations anyway.

Trouble is that the ones I have already contacted are telling me to put down what I want and they will put it on a website for me! If I knew that I would do it myself wouldn't I. I need someone, with a reasonable amount of skill in the subject to tell me what I want and then put it together, is this a bridge too far?

Thanks anyway.

AjarnP

p.s.

Merry Christmas and a Happny New Year to all

[mcgriffith]

Here's a suggestion that may or may not work for you.

I personally have zero knowledge of website design.

But I have a friend here who owns a business, who went to the local uni (CMU) and got a very talented young student who was majoring in computer sciences to do the job for him.

I'm sure there are sharp kids at MFU who would love the challenge, and learning experience.

Just a thought...

[jpinx]

What's the "subject" ?

[AjarnP]

Website will cover bicycle tourism and a restaurant catering, as well as normal fare, to the specific nutritional needs of cyclists.

[mcgriffith]

You can place a free "Wanted" ad on the Thai Visa classifieds.

Make it CR specific, or cover all Thailand- up to you.

[klikster]

Learning to code a basic website is not all that difficult. I can recommend 2 FREE places to learn. First is a well respected organization. Second has excellent step-by-step explanations of how to write basic code.

Basicaly, you want to learn HTML and CSS.

http://www.w3schools.com/

http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/

Do a search on free HTML editors. Also a free image editor that can resize and optimize images

http://www.irfanview.com/

You will also need an FTP client to load images and HTML documents to your server. A very nice, secure and free one is Core Lite

http://www.coreftp.com/

The hard point of publishing a great website is great content .. original, interesting, unique, well-written.

IMO, someone who cannot write or buy quality content should re-think whether they want a website.

Join some of the good webmaster forums like webmasterworld, sitepoint, digitalpoint and read, read, read.

[whybother]

You don't have to have someone in Chiang Rai do the website for you. But you do have to have a general idea of what you want.