looking for a designer familiar with WordPress
 

Hi,

I'm looking for a designer familiar with the WordPress v1.5 blogging software.
I need a custom template designed including logo, layout, stylesheets, etc... and integration.
To avoid waisting either ones time, I need someone that already knows and has done a template/style integration in wordpress.
Please post samples of your work and portfolio and your contact info so I can get in touch. You can also catch me on ICQ: 155193202

Thanks!

If you don't get any hits on here, try http://www.rentacoder.com

Search on wordpress - you should see a number of deals.

Rent a coder rocks - it's just a little slow to communicate with your coder sometimes..

fusinox,

Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at whats on the market over there. I hear good things about RAC too.

what does it use? tpl for templates? it shouldnt be too hard to modify

there are a bunch of tags rrealted to wordpress... nothing to difficult, but since I have no experience with this I need a designer that knows the subject and whats needed to have a good blog design using this app

no one on the board interested in this? theres more bloggers every day so this could be good for some designers portfolio.

If you want to only change the colors, etc, it's just simple CSS.

If you want to change the layouts, it's somewhat advanced CSS and design.

If you want to change the functionality of WordPress, there's a lot of detail to go into. There are many ways to change the navigation, for example. This involves some basic PHP programming skills and a good understanding of how Wordpress handles things internally. There are a ton of variables that are available to use that deal with things like relative and absolute urls, adding categories to your main page layout, things along those lines.

I was going to do some blogs, but decided to go with portals instead. Using Xoops or Mambo, you can incorporate a number of popular blogs, in addition to tons of other modules, like forums, personal ads, classifieds, photogalleries; there's almost no end to add-on functionality.

How does RentaCoder compare to Elance ?

fusionx, you seem to have studdied this issue pretty well ;) As far as I'm concerned I don't need to change the functionality of wordpress; just a nice custom template integrating the appropriate tags.

brujah, elance is the top of the line freelance marketplace and I don't think anything compares to it quality wise. They are pretty selective and their high pricing discourages the less serious providers from participating.
The only "negative" is that they have driven prices higher and so its difficult to find cheap deals on elance.
Which is why sites like scriptlance of rentacoder are able to coexist, providing a much cheaper alternative, with all the drawbacks that come with that. I find there are still good programmers on those second tier services, but they are just much harder to find as a buyer, and generally lack the professionalism of those on elance.

check out huny at http://www.phattygirl.com
she has done a lot of blog designs over the years mostly mainstream, but she also does adult designs so I know she wouldn't object to doing an adult blog. I'm not sure which blog software she's working with now, but i do know she has worked with a few different ones WordPress may very well be one of them, If you contact her be sure to drop my name, she always takes extra good care of people that I recommend to her.

dasexi1, thanks for the tip... nice designs indeed, I'll contact her and see if she can work out something.
btw nice site you have webmistress sexi ;)

Well, I've been playing with blogs and such for quite a while. It seems like I'm always trying to find time to stop playing and get serious. I set up MovableType on a windows server once - that was fun.. it wasn't supposed to be possible at that time. It used forked processes and unix-style permissions.. That got me started in "real" CSS, and adding functions and hacks got me looking into portals.

About the time I get my brain trained for portals, something new with a completely different concept will come out..

I'm really happy there are soo many good tools out there now. With a handfull of different blog packages, a good portal CMS, some kind of photogallery package and some search/indexing utils, you can do almost anything in a matter of days, as opposed to builidng it from scratch for 6 - 8 months.. 90% of it is open source, as well :)

Check out xoops and mambo - people are cranking out new modules for them all the time.

I'm only familiar with Movevable Type and Pmachine but you would think most designers shouldn't have a problem encorporating tags neccessary into the layout needed. Using ccs is the only way to go when designing blogs.

This shouldn't be any different than getting a design setup for a TGP using Comus or AutoGallery scripts.

I'm trying out Mambo on a new site as someone else mentioned. Mambo looks good so far.

Thank you, I just redesigned it for the 10000000th time, that site is my baby I can't seem to leave it alone, always trying to make it better :upsidedow