[gui-talk] Shopping for a Web site designer

[Scott Spaulding]

I'm not a web designer, but if you want something to try on your own, I
recommend www.angelfire.com. They have both free and pay services and I've
been fairly successful in building a site there. It's nothing fancy, but it
seems to work. 

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From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:58 PM
To: GUI-Talk
Subject: [gui-talk] Shopping for a Web site designer

I'm planning to create a personal Web site to display a number of my stories
online, most of which have been published, and a couple of which haven't
been.  Just the basic writer's personal Web site.

My hope is to find someone with these qualifications:

1.  Can provide a template or modular sort of system (Wordpress,, etc.)
that, once set up, will allow me and a friend to make changes, post new
material, post photos and artwork, etc., without having to turn again to the
designer.

My friend is fairly Web-savvy for a non-tecchie; he maintains two effective,
attractive Web sites himself, one for his own professional presentation as a
writer, journalist and teacher, and one for his online travel magazine.  So
we'll be good partners for taking care of the upkeep of my own site, once
it's online, as long as we have something manageable to work with.

2.  Has basic knowledge of screen reader accessibility design factors, so he
or she can incorporate the right touches into the application of the
template or system for this site.  This is absolutely critical.  If the
rudiments in fact are pretty simple, okay, I'd just point the person to the
w3c and any other good resources for learning that stuff.  But they'd have
to be able to learn it quickly.  I don't want to begin with a mess where
links and page elements aren't in the right kind of order for Jaws and other
screen readers, and so forth.  It's got to be screen reader accessible right
from the start.

3.  As the site will be meant for a general audience, I'll need someone
sighted, with a sense of taste and proportion about the appearance and
layout of page elements, colors, fonts, etc.  As my own orientation to
something like this is visual, even though I can't see clearly now, I need
to be able to communicate in those terms with the person, and trust them in
this way.

Can anyone recommend someone with these qualities, hopefully someone whose
fees aren't too expensive?

Thanks very much,
Joel



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