I wandered cluelessly around the internet wilderness for a minute before I hired Michael Pothos to help design my website, thelist.vegas. I wanted to go with someone local, someone accessible, and someone knowledgeable, personable, and experienced and a bunch of other adjectives, and, cha-ching!, I got all that and more.
On the design end, Michael's been great at intuiting my infuriatingly vague site design prompts such as, "Can you do something bright yet brutally simple?" He made it happen.
On the more technical side of things, he's come to my rescue at 8 p.m. on a Friday when I accidentally broke my site a week before soft-launch due to me mishandling a funky WordPress plugin and I called him in a state of panicked hyperventilation. Not only did he fix the issue in a matter of 20 minutes, but he patiently explained what the issue was and how he fixed it, which helped immensely with said panicked hyperventilation. That's service -- and peace of mind -- I'm more than happy to pay for.