There are competitions all over the place for this sort of thing, from a designers point of view its not unethical its a challenge, design is not always about the money. If he really wanted he could go a design agency and boss them around for the same amount of money it cost for a laptop. But he get ONE point of view. Not hundreds.
I am seriously considering re-designing this for you (my laptop is getting old) When i redesign I ideally have a few things to redesign from. The most important is: STATS on the links that are most clicked when a user enters the site.
Yay for putting most of it in CSS and using id's, makes the designer's job lots easier. I already have quite a bit of feedback from some regulars to your site.
On another note, and icon re-design is a HUGE task. Quite frankly i wouldn't go near it without some cold hard cash to tempt me!
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There are competitions all over the place for this sort of thing, from a designers point of view its not unethical its a challenge, design is not always about the money. If he really wanted he could go a design agency and boss them around for the same amount of money it cost for a laptop. But he get ONE point of view. Not hundreds.
I am seriously considering re-designing this for you (my laptop is getting old) When i redesign I ideally have a few things to redesign from. The most important is: STATS on the links that are most clicked when a user enters the site.
Yay for putting most of it in CSS and using id's, makes the designer's job lots easier. I already have quite a bit of feedback from some regulars to your site.
On another note, and icon re-design is a HUGE task. Quite frankly i wouldn't go near it without some cold hard cash to tempt me!