| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Hamlet
Joined: 18 Mar 2008
|
 Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:22 pm Post subject: Can You Recommend a Korean Web Designer? |
 |
|
As stated in the title, I would like to hire a freelance Korean web designer who can make a website for me in both Korean and English.
If anyone can recommend one, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
thoreau
Joined: 21 Jun 2009
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:53 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm not sure you want a Korean web designer.
Look at a few Korean websites and you'll see an overuse of Active X and way too much flash. Search engines don't do well with those elements. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
gillod
Joined: 02 Sep 2009
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I'd look for an English designer who can set you up and a Korean to translate your text. Koreans design for some bizzaro world web where IE6 is all the rage forever and ever. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bucky
Joined: 19 Jul 2009
Location: Vancouver (formerly Yongsan-gu, Seoul)
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| As a Mac user who browses with Firefox, I am BEGGING you to re-consider hiring a Korean web designer. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:38 am Post subject: |
|
|
Depends who your target is.
Korea is 99% windows and IE so why would you waste time on cross browser cross OS compatibility? It's all about cost efficiency.
What's the relative budget for this site? I might be able to help. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Hamlet
Joined: 18 Mar 2008
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Thanks for the responses. I wanted a Korean designer because I am going to be selling a very specific service only to Koreans. So, if Koreans like flash, windows and ie6, like Red_Devil suggested, then that's what I want to give them!
In the end, though, I have decided to just make the site myself in English and then hire a native Korean speaker to translate it into Korean. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
MattAwesome
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| korean web designers make the most awful websites i have ever seen. only owrk in IE6 / windows. give me a break. (i used to do this for a living). it gives me headaches. what i would do, is build a website through someone else, there are tons of code freelances on the internet. then, pay a guy to translate it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
|
| Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 2:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I completely agree with all the sentiments here. Korean web design and coding is horrid. Even one of the most popular sites, Cyworld, refuses to play nice with anything besides IE and limited firefox support. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pr1ncejeffie
Joined: 07 Dec 2008
|
| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I agree... Koreans really don't understand the concept of simplicity. In Western society, simplicity is what many wants. We don't need an oversaturation of things.
I did a case study at my Uni about Koreans love for "in your face" and a lot of information advertisements compare to Americans.
Great example is Western society love for Google. Yes, it is one of the best search engines but the simplicity of the website is amazing... white background and a search box. Compare to naver and the other stuff, its unreal.
Another great example is their use of advertisement, the bigger the sign the better. Go down a street and try to count how many ad signs are on that building. Then go look around any American street where a simple sign that isn't going to hit your face and bombard you with flyers just to get you to come in.
But if you are catering to Koreans then yes you might want to go the route that many koreans do.... lots of flash and christmas lights. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
|
| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| pr1ncejeffie wrote: |
I agree... Koreans really don't understand the concept of simplicity. In Western society, simplicity is what many wants. We don't need an oversaturation of things.
I did a case study at my Uni about Koreans love for "in your face" and a lot of information advertisements compare to Americans.
Great example is Western society love for Google. Yes, it is one of the best search engines but the simplicity of the website is amazing... white background and a search box. Compare to naver and the other stuff, its unreal.
Another great example is their use of advertisement, the bigger the sign the better. Go down a street and try to count how many ad signs are on that building. Then go look around any American street where a simple sign that isn't going to hit your face and bombard you with flyers just to get you to come in.
But if you are catering to Koreans then yes you might want to go the route that many koreans do.... lots of flash and christmas lights. |
This is only partially true and full of a lot of mis-construed generalizations. The standard Korean apartment is the epitome for simplicity compared to almost any American apartment. Koreans tend to sparsely populate their living spaces with functional and useful items. Americans on the other hand sure do love their Precious Moments collectible figurines.
As for the advertisements plastered on the sides of buildings, it is pretty much a necessity since they go vertical with their businesses and homes and you'd never know what was in a building if they didn't. Ask yourself when was the last time you saw a business above the ground floor (besides in a mall) in America.
Finally, Naver is a web portal like the very similiar American Yahoo!, and both rely on content delivery with their search engine functionality taking second fiddle to the content. Google, on the other hand is mainly a search engine and an advertising company, not a content delivery portal.
Although I understand where you are coming from, many of your outlooks on Korean culture seem to be based on a very American way of thinking. Although a lot of what Koreans do in their culture and society doesn't make much sense to any sane person, a lot of what they do that doesn't make sense to the American mindset is actually is very thoroughly thought out and implemented.
That said, their web design and penchant for nothing but windows OS's is sad indeed. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
