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[tptacek]

page99test.com is gorgeous; who designed it?

[blasdel → tptacek]

Someone who thought using a 3 megabyte png of wood-grain texture with a pointless alpha-transparency gradient was a good idea.

Just composite it with the body background to obviate the transparency, make it a jpeg, and halve your page load time.

[percept → tptacek]

Was just reading about it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1835288

[tptacek → percept]

Ahhh; I see that client list and leap to the assumption: "hellaciously expensive".

[bmr → tptacek]

I thought the same thing, but not having a lot of experience hiring designers, I am curious what type of numbers we are actually talking.

1-5k? 5-10k? More?

[patio11 → bmr]

With MailChimp in your portfolio? Substantially north of $10k, just on design work (no CSS, no implementation), if I'm guessing right.

[fireitup → patio11]

WorryFreeLabs was surprisingly affordable. My partner Lance and I 'bootstrapped' these design costs with our bonuses from our day jobs (and didn't exhaust our bonuses with it). Without question, I'd recommend WorryFreeLabs if you're looking for a group to take your idea and bring it to life in design. We're continuing to work with them as we build out page99test.com, and they're as fantastic as ever.

[tptacek → bmr]

If anyone's got a designer who can do that caliber of work for $5k, let me know.

[bl4k → tptacek]

screenshot/blurb/feature boxes is becoming far too common

[thetylerhayes → bl4k]

Isn't that a good thing?

[bl4k → thetylerhayes]

better than rounded corners, drop-shadows, over-sized fonts and large buttons with shadows, I guess.

But I am noticing this new design style (more a layout) - and I am not one to really focus on that.