How Do You Trust Someone You Hire?

[Dkillo]

I've worked with 3 developers so far. Funny thing, I went through all 3 on the same project (hired and fired 2 before finding one I liked).

I created a separate user for them to access the website (wordpress site).

The first person I hired was off of an outsourcer site. I didn't do enough screening and hired someone completely incompetent. The other 2 were off a different outsourcer website. I cut the list of candidates down to 10 or so and did skype interviews with each. Narrowed that list to 2 and let the client choose which one they wanted.

Their pick didn't work out so I fired them and went with the one I should've chosen in the first place. The guy does good work as long as you provide the copy and at a very reasonable price. He'll support the site for 1 year for free. He lives in India so there is a bit of a time difference if you're in the US. I've had him do an ecom site from scratch, redesign a website for a wedding venue, fix a lot of my scrrew ups with wordpress, and design a logo. He's done enough to earn my trust.

If Kurt doesn't mind and if you still need a designer, let me know and I can share his info with you or anyone in this forum who is looking for a web designer. I don't do many websites for clients at the moment so I don't mind sending work his way. He also does logos dirt cheap.