[jifen]

Looking to create an online database driven web store for the retail of automotive race parts

I have an outline functional specification... anyone up to the task please email / msg me to receive it.

I am an IT consultant (not a web designer) and have verying projects pass my desk so looking for the start of a trusting long term relations, honesty & relieability essencial !

Looking for a focused web designer & it is essencial you are accustomed to this type of work with relevant reference sites, cost is a key consideration so think it more likely to go to a freelance operative than a design house.


Had a brilliant response thanks guys & have more than enough replies to work through...

Please consider this topic now closed to new lines of enquiry

[Peartree]

May I ask your budget for this as I also do freelance work

[BritZin]

PM & Email Sent.

[CodeWriter]

PM Sent.
Craig

[a.g.r.c]

http://www.webdesign...92

Jon says he is a project manager, he has posted a job I think I will review his area of expertise.

Having had initial contact with Jon via WDF in private messaging he seemed to be fairly professional although no one was giving out grammatical and spelling awards that day.

With a few weeks gap he was apparently in undated with responses for the said job he had posted, long story short he chose me to work on the project. He seemed like a fair fellow by email and telephone but we almost hit a hurdle when he wouldn't meet in the middle for the payment terms. Instead of 50 / 50 he said 10 / 40 / 50 is the only way and actually wanted some mocks way before that. I accomodated his situation entirely a fair comprimise would lead me to believe 25 / 25 / 50 as payment terms.

The project started and I quoted 4 weeks dev process which with his project manager status he was quite familiar with apparently.

I wrapped up the initial design in 3 days and did immediate changes after mail correspondance and review. Admitedly I left in one layer by mistake (a traffic light to be PC) and that started the steam roller. I had mentioned that a carbon feel or some sort of car body work maybe appropriate in replacement for an effect that was used (for good reason, the initial design element was high contrast to match the rest of the design, changing this would sacrifice readability) however the change was made around day 5 or 6. Along with 3 other variation, carbon, flag and tarmac (x2).

Other silly changes where then made which could have been changed in code such as re-naming "manufacturers" to groups, structure wise these elements did not change but digging back into the psd was a DEMAND Jon made otherwise I wasn't getting bread. This happened a handful more times not to mention countless emails in between. Jon then felt he would put his own stamp on the design oh good job Jon! NOT.

Once the project came to a stand still, Jon then called me to say "he will drive up and kick my arse" which i reacted to. He then continued to swear and said that's us even. 4 cuss words to 1 does not == even.

Also once the project fell through, Jon again felt the need to kick start the project in a round about way by coming along to the forum and slandering the designer a.k.a me. If you want to deal with a client who will readily spread bad press about you based on opinion and not fact go for it.

Anyway, all in all Jon is very tempremental and really likes to "get involved" in a web designers job, so much so you wonder if he wanted to do web design himself.

If you can stand that amount of interference, lack of on going development payment, personal insults, lack of knowledge for the market (this pattern he sent over would not repeat in a CSS / HTML environment).

All in all, a really demanding client with not enough money to fund a professional project, hopefully someone will prove me wrong and we will do a comparison on the final product, which I plan to finish to prove a point when more time becomes free (under a no name brand).

[a.g.r.c]

Nice job on your home page.