I am looking for a list of very talented but fairly low cost
shockwave/flash designers for my not-for-profit organization,
particularly ones that would consider creating a piece of work in
exchange for something other than money. However, that isn't a
requirement. They should also be good at graphic design.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 16 Jun 2003 06:13 PDT

Dear Ryan, 

Where are you located?

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Clarification of Question by ryan_dm-ga on 16 Jun 2003 10:58 PDT

I am located in the St. Louis area, although I'm not sure what that
has to do with my question.

Ryan

Your best bet would be to head over to Elance at
http://www.elance.com.  You can put in a request for bid and the
designers will bid on your project and they have a portfolio that you
can use to view their work.

-THV

That's not exactly what I'm looking for. It seems like you have to pay
to even post a bid request on that site. And what I'm looking for
isn't that spectacular or massive, so it's not a huge project that
would require me to use a third party service like that.

ryan_dm,

Just a thought that you may want to consider:

Sure, Flash presentations can be really amazing and impressive.

But if you are thinking about creating a Flash entry portal for your
site, I urge you to reconsider. Most really good, knowledgeable
Website Design Professionals will recommend against using them, and
here's why:

More than half of the people who access the Web are still on 56k
Dial-Up Modem. Using a Flash presentation on your main entry page eats
tons of bandwidth, and with that kind of connection, can take forever
to load. Most of the time, if I encounter a site with something like
that, I just leave and never come back. A Flash presentation that sits
there and grinds, keeping me from getting the information that I'm
seeking, indicates to me that the site owner has very little respect
or consideration for me or my precious time.

Furthermore, depending on how it's done, a Flash presentation *can*
keep you from being indexed by Google! Since 90% of web traffic
referred from Search Engines comes from Google, that sort of problem
could be crippling for an online "business".

If you still want to create a Flash presentation for your site, I
encourage you to make a link to it on your front page that a Visitor
can click if they actually want to see it.

Otherwise, you might want to consider using a good web designer with
graphic design credentials, who can make your site user-friendly and
easy to navigate, as well as pleasing to the eye.

Best Wishes,

aceresearcher

I plan on making it an optional page. :)

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