Wanted: Excellent (and VERY cheap) Web Designer!

[Radar]

My wife and I are having a baby and need to make some extra money because she won’t be working.

I’ve done a bit of website design in the past but that was about 10 years ago and since then I have been doing computer networking for large businesses. I have a very clear understanding of what I like and dislike.

I don’t like poor web designers who rely on flash or other plug-ins to hide their lack of skill. I believe if a website is designed right, anyone, using any browser, and any screen resolution should be able to use a website and it should load fairly quickly even if they are using a dial-up internet account.

I don’t like busy or cluttered websites. I like clean, crisp, easily navigated, and intuitive websites that provide functionality and get the user the exact information they want in the least amount of time.

I like stylish websites that use mouse-over menus, that have colors that don’t hurt your eyes and aren’t too bright or dark.

I’m looking to open a very small online business to sell homeschool supplies to parents. I’ve got a company working on the logo right now, and when they are done I’ll want to make a matching website.

The key to the website is I’ll have to be able to have one copy of it working on my own url: http://homeschoolsupplyhouse.com with e-commerce, and another nearly identical store on eBay selling the same products but using their e-commerce stuff.

Here are a couple of eBay sites I really like…

http://stores.ebay.com/NOVICA-Store

http://stores.ebay.com/Period-Paper


I especially like the mouseovers in the second one because the descriptions change in the box above when you move your mouse over the category.

I don’t have a lot of money, but I do need to get the highest quality websites possible. If you think you’re the right person for the job, please send me an estimate for doing both of these sites. They will have very nearly identical pages that will have searchable pages for about us, contact us, policies, products, FAQ, etc. Hopefully the non-eBay one will have a way for me to dynamically create pages by adding or removing products with descriptions and prices, and keep track of my inventory.

Right now, I have someone else making a logo so I don’t have a color scheme yet, but that should change in about a week. I’m looking for custom work, not templates.

I'll be sending this to several web developers to see who can do the best job at the lowest price.