Theme Designer Needed
LOL!! Ok, fine.. I give up! I am a creative writer and a Web 1.0 Junkie! I can hold my own, but I have to come to terms with the fact that I need a professional to design a theme for my site. I am sure that if I invested the time into this, I could get my site to look exactly how I want it. But, as we all know… time is money. So, it would be better for me to pay someone who specializes in custom Wordpress theme design instead of me wasting valuable time doing it myself (which takes away from the time doing what I do best).
Here is a list of other blogs that I want to include as a reference to how I want my site to look like. I am not a copy cat, I want my site to be completely different. These are references to other sites that inspire a unique design on how I want my site to look.
- http://www.emomsathome.com/blog/ <– Very Very Nice!!!
- http://www.johntp.com/ <– Close but Not Quite What I Want.
- http://www.reviewme.com/blog/ <– Very Very Nice!!!
What I am looking for is a nice crisp clear look. I want the site to be colorful like Reviewme.com’s blog… I want larger size fonts, crisp nice fonts… I want fluid width design. I want a left sidebar middle section for posts, and a right sidebar.
If you are a professional Wordpress theme designer and feel you can offer me a great deal on a design, please comment below. Include references to sites you have done, or references to demo sites that have some of your themes online. Include a ball park price for the service as well.
I look forward to hearing from you. In the mean time, I am going to continue to plug away at designing my site.
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Garry,
I’m going to convert http://me2ultimate.com to a CUTLINE theme. You and I seem to have similar tastes.
I need two column. The one with sidebars flaning the body that was acceptable, wasn’t available. It turned out to be an April Fool’s joke.
I used Cutline at http://leaveamerica.info. It is black on white. This time I will modify the text so that it is non-serif and so that it is larger.
One sidebar will be for getting around on the site, the other sidebar will be for people (links, top commentators, site stats, directories–i.e. thing people click to leave the site). The other side bar will be for navigation within the site–clicks lead to different places in site, lead to change of content presented in the body area, etc.
It’s inherently plain with some colored font accents and heavey black…however just like with your current them you can add color with badges and whatnot.
All the best,
Nia.
I need to take a nap now before my face falls into the keyboard. Cutline will have to wait for a few hours…I hope figuring out how to upload pictures for header 1, header 2, header 3, header 4, header 5 is a “no brainer”…..Maye I can figure out how to put the title and subtitle in the place of the picture….Oh, dear…another day, another day.
May you find your site design collaborator soon!
Hi, i know designing is more hard than publishing content, i changed my design with little knowledge, but it took very long time.
I like the new top header. you design that yourself Gary?
The ‘comments’ area, ‘blogroll’ & ‘most recent comment’ font doesn’t tally or the same with the overall font u’re using
I’m glad u removed the tag cloud, it just ’stifle’ the design
i’m using firefox latest version to view your blog by the way
Why dont you purchase some very cool Wordpress themes online .
Hey Garry, i’d be keen to work something out with you. Let me know if you’re interested.
Hi Gary – so flattering – thank you!
I actually designed my site myself – but don’t know a speck of CSS or PHP, so I hired Sarah Lewis to bring it all together for me. But don’t get me wrong – she’s quite a talented designer herself!
Two more designers you would want to connect with:
Dawud Miracle :: dmiracle.com
David Airey :: davidairey.com
Drop me a line when it’s all done so I can see the end result!
Wendy
you should definitely check out our blog doctor feature on our blog
might be what you are looking for
Thanks Wendy.
Hey Garry. I have some ideas for you. Shoot me an email and we can talk about them – and about a trade.
Hey Wendy,
Was your nose itching a little bit? Nice to meet you and I do enjoy your site and design a lot. Top Notch! Keep up the great work.
I will do that, thank you very much for the reference.
Email has been shot. You didn’t tell me where to shoot it at so I just shot it in the foot, you will need to give it some medical attention when you receive it.
garry, my samples can be found if you click on my name (posting urls from my domain breaks them in wordpress [for now]), I got some 55 sites designed, but the earliest date I can offer you is mid july. That’s probably too late for you, isnt it?
hope you use it.. we have a great designer
You are not doing bad.. I like what you have done so far!! Good luck with the designer hunt! I already see a lot of talented offers..
Hey Garry, what’s so bad about this one? It clean, simple, easy to read. One thing I’ve found is that it doesn’t matter what I do, I’m never satisfied with my own work. Looking outside is good but don’t second guess yourself into thinking it’s somehow inferior.
That said, it will be interesting to see what kind of ideas surface for you.. Good luck.
just get rid of the errors:
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and you got a nice theme.
the times new roman is kind of hard on the eye I find, but that’s personal choice I think.
I was also trying to update my theme and I spent hours together to get the right color combination for the re-designed header !!
I believe your theme update is still not done completely, the lists on the right sidebar seem to have some issues.
Did you ever find anyone?
There are a lot of people offering this on different Internet sites. I guess the best way to choose is to look at their work.
Anything grab your liking yet?
My good blog friend, Dawud Miracle has offered to work a deal with me on this, and if you haven’t seen his site yet, I would totally recommend visiting. Not only does he write about great stuff, but his site design is amazing. I love his style and I am totally pleased to have him offer to help out.
And also my newly acquired friend, Wendy, recommended him as well.
If we close a deal on this… I am going to owe Dawud years and years of slave labor! But it will be worth it.
I met Dawud a few months ago and have spoke with him on the phone. Very down to earth, smart and incredibly honest individual. Officially, he is Garry Conn dot Com’s recommended web designer. I totally trust him as a person and I am 125% confident in his abilities and would sleep easy knowing that he would take care of anyone I send his way.
I wrote the post, open minded to offers, but also was hoping he would here my cries for help! LOL!!
I was just about to ask if you found someone but it seems you have. When is the construction work starting?
I really like Jez’s work ( he has posted a few things above) Click Here
cheers,
– GoldCoaster
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