Need programmer/website designer recommendations

[ynode]

We are seeking recommendations for website designers/programmers. Do you have a website designer or programmer who did a great job for you? We are compiling a list of people's favorite businesses in the Bay Area. Tell us about them at ynode.com so that we can include them in our list.

[sde]

Do you ever feel dissatisfied with your purchase? With the quality of the product or service that you bought, its price or perhaps the customer service?

We do too. Ideally, we would only buy from businesses that will sell us a good quality product/service at a fair price — always. If we find such a business, we become their repeat customers going back to them time and again.

If there were a list of such great businesses, people could use it to find reliable businesses and avoid buying from bad businesses.

Since no such list exists, we are preparing one for San Francisco Bay Area. You can help us build this list. We will even pay you if you tell us about a business (any type of business, your favorite restaurants, accountants, shoe stores, house painters, or anything else) that you love to patronize.

it doesn't really seem like you have any way of verifying if any business submitted is legit. how does that work? how do you know if it is a legitimate submission from a customer?

[ynode]

Originally Posted by sde

it doesn't really seem like you have any way of verifying if any business submitted is legit. how does that work? how do you know if it is a legitimate submission from a customer?

Once we receive a submission, we verify the business (or the person providing the service, such as a programmer) identity.

In fact, that is one of our central requirements. We want real businesses/professionals recommended by real people who have actually made a purchase. Otherwise our list will be full of self-promotional spam submitted by businesses themselves.