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[UrbanFox]

Any web designers on here who fancy doing me a website?

[Jimbob]

Ive dabbled, why not have a go yourself?

Plenty of tutorials out there, which is what I used

What do you actually want out of a site?

[Kevin Wood]

Ive dabbled, why not have a go yourself?

Plenty of tutorials out there, which is what I used

What do you actually want out of a site?

Agreed. It's not rocket science and you can save a lot of cash (and avoid being reliant on a 3rd part for something so critical) by having a go yourself.

Kevin

[Jimbob]

should add, you can also get plenty of help, ideas, and critique from here when you have something to show, I did, and had a lot of support.

[bluey]

Grab a free template you like and have a play.

I've done lots of websites in my time, including a series for a certain huge recruitment company (kind of ironic being unemployed right now) but in my current position I am not able to help I'm afraid.

[aaronjb]

The DIY aspect can be fatally flawed in one way, though..

Not everyone is a designer - HTML is easy, CSS is easy, but graphic design? That takes talent..

That's why I only do back-end code these days 

[Kevin Wood]

The DIY aspect can be fatally flawed in one way, though..

Not everyone is a designer - HTML is easy, CSS is easy, but graphic design? That takes talent..

That's why I only do back-end code these days 

Sage words indeed. Having said that, as long as you don't want something out of the ordinary or some gaudy flash intro (which would prompt me to give up and pop down the the next result in my google search results anyway) you can blag a lot of the look and feel by taking an established theme and inserting your own pictures, etc.

Take, for example, a current work-in-progress for the local radio club. Budget: zero. Spare time: Precious Little. Need: Desperate.

Took an evening with the laptop on my knees in front of the TV to install to some hosting space, find a theme that did what we wanted and bodge in a few photos to personalise it. OK, it's blatantly "yet another wordpress site" but it was up and running quickly, does exactly what we needed and looks tidy enough.

http://www.hogsback-arc.org.uk

I've just got 2 blokes pestering me to remove the evidence of their receding hairlines from the net now.

Kevin

[UrbanFox]

I had thought about doing it myself, but im not graphic designer

I might take a look at word press.

[Kevin Wood]

I had thought about doing it myself, but im not graphic designer

I might take a look at word press.

It's good for a specific type of web site, I would say. More orientated to a "blog" style site than a static hierarchy of pages although it'll do a basic example of the latter.

Of course, you might want much more - customer forums, online shops, etc. in which case it gets much more complicated.

Kevin

[Jimbob]

This is the one I did from scratch for a very small local performing group:

http://www.buzz-ah.co.uk/

All my own work, done entirely in notepad, no templates etc used, got virtually all the info from
http://www.w3schools.com/

and hosting from
http://www.krystal.co.uk/web-hosting/

[aaronjb]

I had thought about doing it myself, but im not graphic designer

I might take a look at word press.

There's a fella I used to work with up in Newcastle who's a very good designer and knocks out basic sites for £150 or so.. http://webdesign-newcastle.co.uk/ - his name is Paul, if you speak to him.

(He did the pretty bits, I did the nuts & bolts, when we worked together on stuff )

[UrbanFox]

Jim, Thanks for the links etc - will take a look!

aaron, sadly he charges £350 for a small business   Dont have that kinda flow right now..

My site doesnt need a shop etc, its just an information site really!

[Xplicit 2.0]

Have a search on the net for Joomla.
ive made both the websites for both sides of my job and with easy.
It may not be suitable for what u need as its an open source Content management system, but is really easy to use, dont need to no how to code, thousand of themes (u can get free ones or premium ones)
if ur fairly competent on the comp and hav acess to a program like photoshop of paintshop pro, once you have the theme u like its fairly simple to find the images files for the theme then u can changes colours etc (both my sites are the same themes, i just changed the colours via the image files)

let me know if this helps or want more info, and i shall help anyway i can

[Radiomarko]

I've just got 2 blokes pestering me to remove the evidence of their receding hairlines from the net now.

Kevin

I've got a nice 'shop filter that automagically removes egg stains from sweat shirts too - another well known UK radio amateur feature    

[Dishevelled Den]

I've just got 2 blokes pestering me to remove the evidence of their receding hairlines from the net now.

Kevin

I've got a nice 'shop filter that automagically removes egg stains from sweat shirts too - another well known UK radio amateur feature    

  Splendid.