Can you give me advice on finding someone to make my website?

I may be interested, Between me and my partner we can do quite a lot of things, from HTML and CSS to flash and PHP.

It depends on the project too, we have our own things that we work on, so we cant take on a massive project like making the new facebook or something, but maybe something can be done.

As for cost, It’s a tough year, so that is totally negotiable. As for trusting us with your idea, we would be willing to sign a paper stating that the idea is yours and that we make no claim to it.

If that does not sound good, or moderators dont like the idea of people doing business over fluther, then i would advise that you ignore the aforementioned, and instead look for someone on a freelance designer site. You will want to get them to agree and sign a paper saying the idea is yours, and you will want to work on a system where you only pay after work is completed. Some people will want a deposit, but never pay for work until its done.

@poisonedantidote When you say people doing business over fluther, do you mean you are one of the fluther web designers?

If it’s an “the next big thing” of an idea, wait until you’ve saved up more money to make it happen.

Or if you find someone, you can have them sign an NDA.

But in the end, you want to protect your idea. Typically the most inexpensive route would be to inquire at the local university – there are a lot of hungry developers. You just run the risk of them being too inexperienced. Interview all of them until you find someone competent.

He’s not.

@poisonedantidote I am not a fluther web designer, and had nothing to do with the creation of fluther, im just a user, not even a moderator.

when i say doing business over fluther, Im talking about you posting this question, and me getting work off of it by meeting you here in this way. I know there are some rules regarding meeting people on here, but not too sure on the rules regarding doing business over here, or meeting here in this way.

@poisonedantidote Oh, I see. I’ll ask a moderator.

But didn’t we just have a thread encouraging people to share what skills they have, for this very purpose?
I’ll put my vote in for @poisonedantidote. He can do things!

Just reading this again… im so so stupid. why did i say @poisonedantidote in my last post… thats me. Im talking to my self online now? I must be crazy.

Watching thread with interest.
I also have the same dilemma.

@lloydbird , Did you see what @poisonedantidote just did?
Er.. @Me, Yes, but I’d give him the benefit of the doubt. He has always come across as pretty smart on here.
@lloydbird Ok, let’s see what happens then.

Try getafreelancer.com ,you can get work done for little money. I’ve used it a couple times for my school’s magazine website. Is like ebay but for service. I got a whole website importation done for 70 bucks, here in Mexico that would cost me around 200–300 bucks. I imagine if you are in the states so you would get even better price discount. Most developers are from India for what I see.

Depending on your budget, you could go a couple different ways.

Sites like sortfolio.com can help you find some really talented people and firms. You can look locally, or just find someone who does work you really love. For the most part the companies listed are in business making websites and applications so you can expect the pricing to reflect working with a professional. It also means you can basically just present your idea, have them sign whatever assurances you’d like, and they’ll take it from there. Of course you’ll still have oversight and final say in what happens, but you won’t have to sort out the details, their job is to make your idea happen in a beautiful way.

There are also usually web development trade groups in most cities. I don’t know where you live, but Refresh is a group that’s in a lot of major cities, has monthly meetings, and at least the two I’ve participated in, also have a job board. Posting there might help you get in touch with the someone who’s available, local (if that’s important), and interested.

If you don’t mind staying on top of things a bit better and putting in some additional leg work, you can usually find students at a local college studying either programming or design who are into making web sites on the side. Designers usually know programmers that can make their designs into functional sites and programmers usually know a designer or two. Some folks do both. As I said above, I’d be more prepared to be involved on a regular basis if you go this route, but it can definitely save you some cash. This doesn’t have to be local either, you can drop an ad on craigslist in any college town and you’ll get quite a few responses.

I’ve worked with a couple folks from sites like getafreelancer.com or elance.com. They’re fine if you have a very specific task you want done and an exact specification you can pass along. I’m sure there are people there who are able to take a complicated idea alone and execute it wonderfully, I just haven’t had the pleasure of working with them. From my experience (4–5 projects), because price is so important to winning a bid providers bid the minimum it could cost to get the task done, and then do the minimum. There is no “art” to it, no advice on how to improve the idea, no frills or zip-zap, just the basics. On the plus side they’re always amazingly fast, so it’s great for a proof of concept, production work, or getting some expertise for a specific area of the project.

none of this is to say @poisonedantidote wouldn’t do an amazing job for you, just wanted to give you some info if that’s doesn’t work out for some reason… the best bet is always someone you trust and WANT to work with and it sounds like that may be the match

Good luck with the idea, let us know when you launch to fame and fortune.