Talented web design artist sought

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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:29:04 GMT, "Scott Simes" wrote:

Yeah right. A business with a Hotpop address….

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This is a business practice that I just cannot understand, but come across all of the time. A business will have a domain name and website, but use an AOL or Hotmail email address. For the love of God, why?

This is a business practice that I just cannot understand, but come across all of the time. A business will have a domain name and website, but use an AOL or Hotmail email address. For the love of God, why?

Because they’re too dumb to know any better? It makes no sense to me… if they’re paying for domain hosting then they’re certainly getting email accounts as well…

And I make it a point to never deal with any business whose primary email is an AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo account. Period, no exceptions. If that’s their level of sophistication then they aren’t up to my standards for sure.

B.

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We are a small company who wishes to hire a talented freelance web artist to create a home page design and layout some other page-templates for a new feature-rich database-driven ASP.NET web site. First and foremost is an artist who has talent for creating a fun, fresh web page that captivates. A demonstrated understanding of color and layout is a must. We’re looking for advanced web-design–not the typical rectangular-region layouts that are easy to create with a rudimentary knowledge of the simplest HTML tools. Ideally, we’d like something distinctive, such as angle-cut rectangles or rounded regions on the web page with possible Flash peppered throughout to liven-things-up. Finally, someone who understands how to work with developers. For example, if you provide "content areas" in your web-page design then the design should not shift when content is dynamically rendered at runtime.

We’re experienced Microsoft-certified programmers–but not artists. This art work we’re seeking must be fresh, fun, and professional. We’re looking only for artists that have a portfolio and an understanding of web (rendering) templates, CSS, Flash MX, HTML/DHTML, and are well-versed in either Photoshop and/or Fireworks. Preferably, they will have some familiarity with server-side ASP.NET controls, but this is not necessary.

The artist will be required to sign and have notarized a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before beginning. The scope of this work is initially about 20 hours–and we’d like to begin in May, 2004. More work will likely follow if we experience success.

Does anyone know how to find such a person? Inquiries/portfolio links may be sent to this address (we already have a logo so please excuse the name of this e-mail address):

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On 4/28/04 3:38 PM, in article
a2cef$409007bf$d1cc6c12$, "Brian"
wrote:

This is a business practice that I just cannot understand, but come

all of the time. A business will have a domain name and website, but

AOL or Hotmail email address. For the love of God, why?

Because they’re too dumb to know any better? It makes no sense to me… if they’re paying for domain hosting then they’re certainly getting email accounts as well…

And I make it a point to never deal with any business whose primary email is an AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo account. Period, no exceptions. If that’s their level of sophistication then they aren’t up to my standards for sure.

B.

I’m reluctant to characterize them as dumb. Many of the businesses I have come across like this are very successful. But I will say that they have

business having a presence on the web, since it is obvious to me that they haven’t thought out how a web-based business model works.
It does make me wonder how much more successful they *could be* if they

able to expand their thinking and look at themselves from their customers point of view. If they can’t do that in what is obviously an unfamiliar milieu to them, then it begs the question: what basic mistakes have they made in their brick and mortar operations?
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