Freelance Web Designer How and Where to Hire?

It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate good ones from bad ones. Under the circumstances, I suggest you keep yourself restricted to these top two genuine sites to find Freelance Web designers;

1. Elance

2. RentACoder

To hire a contractor or to get hired as a web designer you must first join both RentACoder and Elance.

Start by joining these sites. You then post a description of your project, and then contractors bid on it. If you want to hire a Web designer, be sure that he/she understands what you want to accomplish with your affiliate Website. For instance, many Contractors use lots of flash elements, which the search engines disregard. Such elements take up plenty of bandwidth and are really there only to make your site look pretty.

It is best that you avoid such flashy elements. A good middle ground is to hire a contractor to build you a web site template with a variety of different page layouts, perhaps five or six. Then you can merely replace or update text as needed, or change out photographs or graphics to build new pages. You should describe the type of theme and tone you wish for your site. If you have seen related websites that hold certain elements you like, state them in your project description.

Be sure to let your freelance web designer know that you wish to design an affiliate Web site, and then find a web designer whose portfolio includes affiliate sites.  Explain your website's objective clearly; include what you would like on each page, plain and accurate instructions about navigational links, and number of pages the site will have in total.

Go through the basic design rules and techniques Super Affiliates use that are described in the Web Design Guide section of How to Make a Website, and apply them to your project details.

Avoid web designers who are more of graphic designers and artists whose key objective is to produce a work of art. You don’t want a masterpiece; you want a fully operational, clean, and error-free Website that attracts traffic through its content. And most important of all, keep in mind that when the project is finished, you want total control over its use, so the Web site and all its code should be available to you so that you can make the essential changes when ever needed.

If you have seen similar sites that contain certain elements you like, mention them in your project description. Be sure to let the designer know that you wish to design an affiliate Website, and then look for a designer whose portfolio includes affiliate sites.