20 Places To Go For Professional Web Design
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Web Design in Web Development
The Internet is full of places to go for professional web design. But sometimes people are spoiled for choice, and can find it hard to make a decision on where to look for professional web design. Well we have weeded out all the bad choices, and narrowed it down into a nice tidy list. I am recommending all 20 of these online websites to go to for professional web design. Click on each one and it will take you to the desired website.
Freelance Switch
This allows you to post job adverts for free, so that thousands of talented freelancers can see it, and apply for your job.
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Elance
At elance, there are around 1,000+ new jobs posted each day. There is over 92,000 expert designers willing to do your work, so you will never be short of a design expert.
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99Designs
With 99Designs, you can setup a contest, so you get loads of different designs, pick the best one and pay for it. So simple!
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Guru
With Guru, you can search over 100,000 freelancers, get a free quote, and then get your project done.
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Design Jobs On The Wall
Created by Nick La, design jobs on the wall is an amazing job board that will get you lots of exposure, and will get the right web designer for your project.
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Project 4 Hire
Project4Hire has so many different category’s to post your project in, you are sure to find a freelancer for your project.
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Smashing Jobs
Thousands of talented web designers read the smashing magazine blog, and im sure lots of them will look at the job board, so you are bound to get a top notch designer for your project. Its easy to use, and low cost.
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Digital Point Design Marketplace
The best thing about this, is its a free forum. Anyone can post and reply. There is lots of talent over at Digital Point.
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Talk Freelance
Talk Freelance is yet again another free forum, so it wont cost you a penny to find a great designer.
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Crowd Spring
Crown Spring has an amazing concept. You post your project, watch everyone contribute their creative ideas, and then choose the one you like best.
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Design Firms
Design Firms is a simple way to hire design firms to complete your web design project.
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Freak Lance
Freak Lance is a web and graphic design marketplace. It has a nice and easy to use system.
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Lime Exchange
Lime Exchange is the world’s most diverse on-line services marketplace. It has a very user friendly interface, and you will find some great designers.
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Krop Jobs
Krop Jobs is one of the best job boards on the internet. You can post your project, and have someone working on it in less than 24 hours. You can browse through freelancers portfolios, see their work, and hire them, all on Krop!
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Coroflot
Coroflot has over 140,000 designers portfolios. You can post a job, or contact each designer through their portfolio. You will be spoilt rotton.
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SitePoint
SitePoint is floating with raw design talent. Just have a small browse around, and you will find the perfect designer.
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Authentic Jobs
Authentic Jobs is a place where you can place an ad, part time, full time, or a freelance project, and designers with outstanding talent will contact you.
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37 Signals Job Board
37 Signals is a great place to pick up designers. It is very simple to use, and you pay for quality.
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Design Mag
With Design Mag you can post your freelance project, and it will be seen by many great designers who often browse the website.
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How Job Bank
With the How Job Bank, you can browse jobs by certain categories, such as graphic design, web design etc. Web Designers are sure to find you and get in contact with you about your project very fast.
21 Responses to “20 Places To Go For Professional Web Design”
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Aneslin
26. Jun, 2009
thx for the list brov, i just knw only 4 sites. i can try other sites.
thx
Wiltabone
26. Jun, 2009
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Mariusz
26. Jun, 2009
If I was to go for professional web design, I wouldn’t even bother checking 99Designs or Crowdspring – crowdsourcing never works well and people mostly steal each other’s ideas.
Joshua Davis
26. Jun, 2009
I agree that crowdsourcing sites don’t belong in a list of professional job boards. I suggest they be removed or have the post title changed.
Alberto
27. Jun, 2009
Agreed.
Crowdsourcing -as established in the business models of those sites- doesn’t work. They’re more like design sweatshops, if you ask me.
Also, both CrowdSpring and 99Designs condone plagiarism in their sites. Follow @LogomotiveMike for a view into how these sites deal with rips.
So no, no way I can think of these being in a ‘professional’ design sites compilation.
shareunlimited.net
26. Jun, 2009
Thanks I’ll see.
nice Guru´s logotype.
Martin Leblanc
27. Jun, 2009
Very handy list! Thanks.
Adam McCombs
27. Jun, 2009
If this is truly a professional list you need to remove 99Designs and Crowdspring. Other than that I think it’s a great list.
Bruno Camargos
28. Jun, 2009
Very usefull list!!!! Thanks.
Dainis Graveris
28. Jun, 2009
very explained list, I am sure you’ve got the most popular websites featured! Several new for me too – thanks for that!
Dec
28. Jun, 2009
You missed ODesk
Rodrigo Santana
28. Jun, 2009
Very Good!!!!!!!
Dan B. Lee
28. Jun, 2009
Uh oh. Promoting some spec work here. Surprised the comments haven’t turned to battle grounds.
dana kreiss
28. Jun, 2009
Try the Wix Designers Directory: http://www.wix.com/designer/directory
Alex
10. Jul, 2009
Wanted to know something, from what I figured about crowdsourcing was that it a fast way to reuse your massive store of creatives kept in the drawer and earning from the same.
Am sure all designers have loads of creatives, which never got used commercially, so why not use them now. Some of the sites mentioned do follow strict guidelines as per DMCA and on intimation by anyone, take strict action against the plagiarism
Mary Waugh
20. Jul, 2009
Thanks Andy for such a good list of freelance job websites. I have even tried two of them, Elance & LimeExchange and I’m glad to share that I got access to some good projects on one of them.
Cheers!!
Guneet
01. Aug, 2009
this is great! thanks a lot mate!!
beli
09. Aug, 2009
I think this list is very good. I will try it first and then leave a more detail comment. Thanks anyway.
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steve
02. Sep, 2009
thanks for the nice selection of galleries
here is one that i tend to use http://www.foralltosee.co.uk
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len
06. Mar, 2010
NOTHING good comes from pimpin’ creative talent to the lowest bidder… Nothing at all.