# Will someone design my website please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390 "2009-06-20T12:59:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/1 "2009-06-20T12:59:22Z")
Anyone want to design a website for fun and practice? I can pay a percentage of future gross up to a certain amount, but I can pay nothing at all up front. The site (get ready for your eyes to bleed) is [igradeyourpaper.com](http://igradeyourpaper.com). I’ve taken a couple of stabs at designing the site myself. “It’ll be easy,” they said. “Just use a template” they said. Well, I know that in this decade this is tantamount to admitting oneself to be mentally handicapped, but when it comes to making an attractive webpage, I’m just not getting it. I’m clumsy. And blind. And, well, just stupid. (About this I mean.) And everytime I try to use a template, some frustrating disaster happens. Things get buggy. Font sizes and alignments go wonky. It’s enough to make a body give up. And I do. So hear my pitiful plea. Will someone please just do this _for_ me? -Kris ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/2 "2009-06-20T13:57:33Z")
Can you give some details on what you’d like the site to do? Any special functionality, or just a front page with contact info? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/3 "2009-06-20T15:16:26Z")
> [@Alpine](#): > > Can you give some details on what you’d like the site to do? Any special functionality, or just a front page with contact info? I want the site to do exactly what it presently does, with the exception that I would like it to look nice and encourage business rather than looking ratty and discouraging business. Is that to unspecific? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/4 "2009-06-20T15:42:11Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > I want the site to do exactly what it presently does, with the exception that I would like it to look nice and encourage business rather than looking ratty and discouraging business. > > Is that to unspecific? I’m interested, can you point at other sites that have a look that is close to what you are looking for? (one can not copy a design, but one can get a better idea of what you are looking for) I can also make graphics for you. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/5 "2009-06-20T16:54:59Z")
I forgot to ask, would like the graphics to show that you can deal with fun stuff or do you want it to be all serious business? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/6 "2009-06-20T17:05:33Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I forgot to ask, would like the graphics to show that you can deal with fun stuff or do you want it to be all serious business? I’ll look around for websites to point you too. As for the graphics, it shouldn’t be all serious business. The logo I currently have on there, I’d really like to keep and make prominent. I think it sets the right tone. (I can get you the Illustrator file behind that JPG if you need it. My wife designed the logo.) ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/7 "2009-06-20T22:17:30Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > I want the site to do exactly what it presently does, with the exception that I would like it to look nice and encourage business rather than looking ratty and discouraging business. > > Is that to unspecific? Oops, somehow missed that you already had something up! I’d be interested, too, but it sounds like you’re good to go with **GIGO**. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/8 "2009-06-20T23:08:30Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > I’ll look around for websites to point you too. > > As for the graphics, it shouldn’t be all serious business. The logo I currently have on there, I’d really like to keep and make prominent. I think it sets the right tone. (I can get you the Illustrator file behind that JPG if you need it. My wife designed the logo.) OK, I will keep the graphic as the logo. I just sent a message to you from the email address that I prefer so you can send me the image file. As I said in the message, you are lucky today, I’m going to apply for jobs next week that need some samples of my work, and this is why I’m willing to create new images for your site if you want to. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/9 "2009-07-10T01:08:49Z")
Just a bump to register my thanks to **GIGObuster** for doing this for me. [The site’s much better now!](http://www.igradeyourpaper.com) ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/10 "2009-07-10T07:44:40Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Just a bump to register my thanks to **GIGObuster** for doing this for me. > > [The site’s much better now!](http://www.igradeyourpaper.com) Looks good! But how’d it look before? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-someone-design-my-website-please/500390/11 "2009-07-10T15:56:05Z")
One quick nitpick: I noticed that the gray “rightcolumn” area extends to the bottom of my browser, whereas the blue “leftcolumn” stops a little less than a centimeter shy of the browser’s status bar. Could \*\*GIGObuster \*\*perhaps spend another minute or so to fix up that mismatch? I’m using FireFox 3.0.11, if it matters.