vB Designers extincted!

[Chris Gwynne]

Dameon White does still design, you just have to get in touch with him.

DesignDevise isn't exactly no more, maybe just on the rocks at the moment.

There's also vBDesk. Produce some excellent work, even though the site currently looks a bit iffy in Mozilla.

[AlexanderT]

Chris, can you post or PM me some examples of vBDesk's work?

[sabret00the]

lol, good luck to everyone who makes skins in this thread, i hate making skins personally

although my vb3 skin for my site is gonna win vBotM when i finally launch it.

as my msn name says

sabe [the s00] // efficacious // www.ebslive.com // future vBotM in the making // seeing the light (snowed under still) says:

:nervous:

[AlexanderT]

Heh I also hate making skins. It is not the programming/template part that I despise, but the designing part itself.

I have a lot of respect for web designers who manage to design a COHERENT-looking, professional webpage. It is easy to create a nice looking button with Photoshop, or perhaps a gradient for category headers, but it is very difficult to integrate everything to make it look like one piece. Trust me, I tried many times to become "creative" - but failed miserably at the end.

Also, 13th disciple said an important thing: a good designer must be able to "translate" what I am looking for. I think this is the scary part, if you don't know the designer well that you are going to hire. Well you can say something like "I like the way Corey designed webhostingtalk.com", and with a lot of luck the designer is going to deliver something that looks alike, and is yet unique.

Alex

[13th_Disciple]

well, i put paris holley through a bit of sh#t today.. got him to design a single button for me.. after 6 or 8 tries, he got it.. but i also gave him the gig.. so he is gonna do me some custom buttons for my site.. may get into other works as well as long as everything goes good.. the only thing i asked was for complete cutom stuff that i need not see anywhere else on the internet..

kinda like the vB.org deal.. having the psd files is a good thing..

but he was able to listen, to put up with me, and now, he will make a quick sum for knocking me out some buttons.. i used to be a heavy believer int he internet.. for communication.. i am a very firm believer in face to face.. without that, we might as well all be drones.. so getting ideas on to paper, so to speak, is tough.. getting someone to then understand that, well, it's damn near impossible.. the deal is that most people won't stop long enough to listen to requirements or listen to ideas.. they are too quick to jump on their own ideas.. but if someone pays you for something and says they want it to look a certain way, doesn't matter if it's crap or not, make what they want, get paid, go away..

enough rambling.. time for a game of UT2004.. and thanks for the buttons, Paris..

[AlexanderT]

It is a shame that vB.org keeps the style submissions of the style contest hidden. How are we ever going to find new vB designers this way?

[Dean C]

Well remember some people won't want you to see their entries

[cobraclub]

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

[list][*]vBevolution.com (only few pre-paid skins, don't seem to be updated since 3.0 Gamma/Beta 7, bad customer practices)

Well, that comment is about right, a pre built skin ordered on the 8th April and still nothing from them, and I have subsequently found out I am not the first to be on the receiving end of their horrendous customer service.

Robert

[Ryan Ashbrook]

I just dont mess with pre-made skins, it's much better making your own.

[AlexanderT]

Ryan the focus was on vB designers who do *custom* designs for you.

[vbmechanic]

What am I, chopped liver?

I've been working with vBulletin since 1.x. I'm a professional user interface designer with a real, incorporated business. I have dozens of satisfied clients: http://www.vbmechanic.com/testimonials.php

vBMechanic produces fullly integrated and customized vBulletin sites, including custom home pages with Content Management Systems that look nothing like a portal.

[Sam FT]

Just to add my two cents. vBmechanic is currently doing my design...it is the NASCAR design you see there. Besides vBmechanic which I am so thankful that he took on my project. And that he is the only designer who is actually making progress.

But I have to agree with AlexanderT just a little that some of the designers seems to get bite my the vB-bug. For me I have been trying to get my dream design finished and for the past year dealing with designers as been nothing horrible for me. I seem to be curst, because two out my last three designers, I was the last client for them before they closed shop. Mike who was the first owner of vbpanel.com and Corey with ravio.com. And Dameon was my last designer, who I have the up most respect for. Personally as I got to know him and as a NASCAR fan. But there were too many set backs and no light at the end of the tunnel. Which I blame part on myself. But all three designers experience basically ended up the same way, lost of time and/or money.

[MaxScript]

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[13th_Disciple]

can't wait to see your site sam.. been hoping i would catch a link to it soon.. i am also a racing fan..

[rebelsrock06]

Originally Posted by Chris Gwynne

There's also vBDesk. Produce some excellent work, even though the site currently looks a bit iffy in Mozilla.

If you go to their site and ask to see someof their work you'll get an answer REALLY FAST