Hi All,

I am looking for a Web/graphic designer that has a portfolio of web hosting designs and can do WHMCS integration. I starting this as a hobby so funds are limited.

I found templatemonster.com but there templates are very limited with the content you can drop in.

I also discovered http://www.akdesigner.com/ which are based in India. Has anyone used these guys? If so, what did you think?

Matt

G'day Matt,
Let us all know what your budget is and ask for a quote. templatemonster.com is great if you can do blindingly well at designing web sites yourself. Which somewhat defeats the purpose of going to them in the first place.

I'm getting my main site redone now (and it badly needs it). The designer has advertised his work on here before, it looked great and the prices are okay. I'll be getting the WHMCS integration done by WHMCS as soon as the site is finished.

PM me for his address.

Since its a hobby type thing and not for business, i can help ya out if you want. Im no expert, i do it for learning and as a hobby myself, but always glad to lend a hand to other Aussies

PM me if you want to have a chat.

Hi Mike,

My budget is $500 including the WHMCS integration.

M

Hi mate,

I have used www.akdesigner.com before and did a great job.

Check here: http://akdesigner.com/index.php?page=sale for some templates on sale.

James

Hi James,

How much would a average custom site cost with these guys?

M

Hmm - I can't really say...

Depending on how many pages etc.

I'd say between $200-$300.

I've also purchased from AKDesigner in the past and can highly recommend them

though, with the Aussie dollar so low these days buying from overseas isnt always the cheapest option these days

www.akdesigner.com
their jobs seems nice.

tbh an Australian-based individual with professional credibility will set you back $25-150 an hour, and a company will be $50-500/hour, so you may be best offshoring it.

Why offshore labour to another country?

Sure, I can understand your ideas and prospects in that comment, but isn't it about keeping work "local" and "In Australia" these days?

I'd much prefer to pay a local who I can understand and who understands me, even though it may be higher, and considering the current economical market, I'd be sticking the funds back into Australia.

Every little bit helps

While I'm not trying to get to OP too far off topic, I'm not a fan of offshoring either - we're a Sydney-based business.

However, within the constraints of the OP's post, I'd say that the OP doesn't have the right approach to benefit from a professional company doing the work. He asks for a web development company with a portfolio of hosting sites. Essentially asking for a clone of another site by someone who specialises in doing Paganini, and then dropping into it whCMS.

whCMS is outdated and a discontinued CMS, which has evolved into Cambio, itself not a great example of the genre. I don't honestly believe that any professional company with the associated overheads of running a business with licensed software and a place of business can afford to take on his project, especially not with any design iterations or revisions.

However, I'm aware of the typical margins of a web hosting company and understand that there isn't always a reasonable budget. He may find a talented student local to him who wishes to expand a portfolio, and for this he's better off posting on Gumtree etc.

He might also look at contra deals, as the resold cost of each service is higher than the base cost.

However... and don't take this the wrong way I'm really not a big fan of your site (poor branding, too many colours, mixed straplines, tables, imagemaps etc), and I still sent a client to you - so maybe it doesn't actually matter what your sites like as long as it meets a basic standard. In that case, it probably doesn't matter who the OP uses, and having a site is better than having no site!

If you have found a template and don't want to deviate from this a skilled web developer should be able to knock something up fairly quickly.

WHMCS intergration isn't that hard. Its take the header and footer from your template and smack that in the header/footer sites. Im sure this is all WHMCS does.

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