Well, I’m four months into this thing and have a couple of writers that have produced/are producing good content. I have the ability to hire more if I need too…. It’s time to find a designer.

I’ve got my first project posted on Elance and after being up for 4 days I am not very happy with the bids I have received. The sites in the designer’s portfolios have all been faulty; from being slow to load, to just being plain old ugly.

My original plan was to outsource most of the content creation I needed and do most of the page design/coding myself using Dreamweaver. I’ve played around with Dreamweaver 8 for about a year, but only in the last month and a half have I really gotten into it. I went through the whole Lynda basic video tutorial, doing the exercises, and taking extensive notes (which I hope to have online soon). Looking back on it, the tutorial was only mediocre, and I question the expertise of the instructor. Too much time was devoted to tables and old ways of formatting text. Not enough time was spent going through CSS, and there were not enough elaboration that would be expected from someone supposed to be an expert.
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