Found a link for free web design somewhere on Reddit but lost it. Help me find it! (X-Post from r/web_design)

Alright, instead of making a snarky comment or just laughing before downvoting you like everyone else I'm going to try and help you out.

First a little insight on why you're not getting the response you expected. Your post comes off very very poorly. Someones first impression of you after reading it is most likely that you're a cheap, demanding asshole that will expect the world for nothing.

Note: I'm not saying that's what you actually are just that most people will see your post that way because:

  • You want someone to build you a professional site for commercial purposes yet only pay them in "experience"

  • You need it NOW for free when normally people pay more for a job on a time crunch rather than "0".

  • You want student's to do it. Which means this isn't very important or you haven't done your homework.

We've all at some point either been undervalued and taken advantage of or had numerous assholes try. Especially in our younger years.

I don't know of the post you're referring to but set ups like that are:

  1. Usually for the community they're located in so there's some mutual benefit
  2. Semester long projects that will result in a whole range student level quality so you have to be very patient and understanding. Ideally you can give excellent feedback and perhaps give back to the program in some way. Programs like this that are set up well usually end up "costing" the business than it would otherwise, but there's mutual benefit there.

Now what do you think the chance is that someone is going to help you if they're under the impression you're going to be a clueless asshole and take advantage of some poor students?

Anyway on to your possible solution. If you're okay with student level quality to begin with you have two real options.

  1. Come up with the paltry sum of maybe a couple hundred bucks it would take to actually hire someone to get that done.
  2. The better option: do some basic research and learn how the web works then what you need for the site you want.

If you decide to go with the second option. You could got with the endless options out there for site-building like WiX, weebly, the "sitebuilder" nearly every major registrar/webhost has, and so on. You could also do something like use a (free or paid) template from the many free CMS options out there like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal. If you're feeling particularly adventurous you could even learn some HTML and CSS and build your own site with something like Bootstrap.

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