1. Consider exchanging services with a designer. Costs some development time, but might be worth it for good design work.
2. Ask a designer friend for a favor. You don't want to impose too much, but you might be able to get a discount off the normal design rate.
3. Depending on the type of project, you may be able to find prebuilt templates/themes that you could adapt. Themeforest is a good place to look.
4. Consider using a grid-based CSS framework like Blueprint. It already has all the basic building blocks in place. It won't be beautiful, but should be at least reasonably usable.
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1. Consider exchanging services with a designer. Costs some development time, but might be worth it for good design work.
2. Ask a designer friend for a favor. You don't want to impose too much, but you might be able to get a discount off the normal design rate.
3. Depending on the type of project, you may be able to find prebuilt templates/themes that you could adapt. Themeforest is a good place to look.
4. Consider using a grid-based CSS framework like Blueprint. It already has all the basic building blocks in place. It won't be beautiful, but should be at least reasonably usable.