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One more thing: be sure that whoever you hire to design and build it understands responsive web design. These days, more and more people are using mobile devices to view websites, and you want your site to work equally well across all tablet and phone screen sizes, as well as the desktop.
Agreed. For instance, I want the header/menu to be constantly seen at the top of the page, so it's easier to navigate. If you're at the bottom of the list, I don't want you to have to scroll all the way back to the top in order to switch pages. But when looking at those current mock-ups on my iPhone, in landscape mode, the header/menu takes up more than half the screen vertically. Wouldn't work as is. So finding someone who can make the look work across all platforms is definitely a must. Will probably have to end up going with a header/menu that's a lot thinner than the current, rough version.
I really do think that finding the right designer is going to the toughest part of this whole process. It should be a fairly "easy" build, since it's not a super-complicated site, but finding a designer/team who can understand, improve upon, and properly-execute the database aspect of it, while
also coming up with a genuinely bold, simple, stylish look/logo/etc is going to be tough. But maybe not.
Though, I've already started looking for design companies here in LA and the list is almost impossible to sort through. Especially having no clue about that whole world. The vast majority of options I've seen are pretty bad. If you're a web design company who can't even design a good site for your own company, you're doing it wrong. And that's most of these companies.
A few I've found so far that (kind of) stand out, though...
http://wndrmnt.comhttp://thisbythem.comhttp://toi.iohttp://isadoradesign.comGuess I'll just start with those, plus a couple others, early in the new year and go from there. If none of them work out, surely one or two will at least be able to point me in the right direction...
[This message has been edited by TCTTS (edited 12/12/2013 11:23a).]