Seems like by "designers" it means you would like contributions from "graphic designers", yeah?
Just my humble, but designers, like programmers, can grow as their knowledge and experience encompasses more techniques. From drawing to composition to color theory to typography to XHTML to CSS to Javascript to PHP to Perl to ASP.NET/C# etc, et, al.
So what kind of designer were you looking for?
BTW, from a visual design point of view, the classic education is to first use a monospace typeface at a single size, then use other typefaces and multiple fonts and weights, then get to the fancy curves and Photoshop bullshit. But honestly if the designer couldn't make it work in Courier, they may want to consider another career.
So there you go. Did you want gratuitous eye candy or did you want a talented and educated artist who also knew booleans, conditionals and how to hit up a database?
Just my humble, but designers, like programmers, can grow as their knowledge and experience encompasses more techniques. From drawing to composition to color theory to typography to XHTML to CSS to Javascript to PHP to Perl to ASP.NET/C# etc, et, al.
So what kind of designer were you looking for?
BTW, from a visual design point of view, the classic education is to first use a monospace typeface at a single size, then use other typefaces and multiple fonts and weights, then get to the fancy curves and Photoshop bullshit. But honestly if the designer couldn't make it work in Courier, they may want to consider another career.
So there you go. Did you want gratuitous eye candy or did you want a talented and educated artist who also knew booleans, conditionals and how to hit up a database?