Web designer needed

[redyork]

Hi there,

I'm in the process of setting up a new venture and have produced a website in dreamweaver which will suffice until things take off. What I am looking for is someone to help out with some of the functionality of the site. I need a contact form (not the mailto option ) which hides email address from spammers as well as a search function on the site. I'm ok at the basic html stuff, dreamweaver and flash but the scripting bit is a tad beyond me. Any advice or suggestions would be welcomed and if you're a web developer then PM me with an indication of your rates etc.

Many thanks.

 

[trevorwood]

you have PM

 

[Jonas_LT]

What serverside language are you looking at using?
.Net, php, java?

 

[stugster]

In all honesty.. if this is a quickie website you want doing, that is only gonna be until "things take off" then just go for a bog standard wordpress site with a nice template.

Wordpress will give you a website, blog, contact form, etc. etc. (everything you'll ever need) and its not going to cost you an arm and a leg.

 

[Astaroth]

If you are creating static pages for the site then a search facility would be a bit of a pig to create.

Whilst I have a personal dislike of content management systems for a couple of reasons you would probably be better off using a freeware CMS as they will give you search and contact forms out of the box. There are many freeware ones available (like wordpress) but you will need to check what technologies your webhosting supports first.

 

[FireFleur]

It is not too hard to create a search facility from HTML documents, there are a number of parsers you can use, but you will eventually have to build up a datastore of sorts from those parses.

Striping the tags leaving just the text is fairly fast, and then removal of any duplicates and perhaps small words would give an index quite quickly.

Another thing to realise is that a site maybe static in presentation but behind the scenes it is being driven by a datastore.

As to web designer needed, it sounds more like you are after a web developer which you do mention in your text. A simple CGI script is probably all you need for contact, there are free ones around, and it is not hard to create one from scratch (about the same time to configure a free one )

 

[jaspey]

Ive used formmail in the past, its quite a nice easy form script to use, just google it, im pretty sure the code is free.

Jon

 

[ORDERED WEB]

It seems pretty standard work for us

Give us a call, lets get it sorted out for you

Elizabeth

 

[PETTE]

Available...

 

[redyork]

Thanks all, helpful stuff. Also thansk for all the PMs. Shocked by how many experts there are out there. I'm in touch with one of teh respondees now so hopefully will have things sorted in by the weekend, Thanks again !!!

 

[cezary]

For search of your static pages you could use google customized search, of course that is only possible if you site have been already indexed by google.

But I agree with some posts here that the best way for you would be using open source cms like word press, drupal or joomla with one of free templates, that is if you not very attached to your design.