The Designer Program is for skilled and motivated graphic designers who wish to maximize your income by leveraging Earthgrid Sites' product line to gain more design jobs. Initially it may take some training for you to familiarize yourself with our tools, so we've found the best solution is to work together on building your first customer's new Earthgrid website. You will earn while you learn.

The Designer Training Program  - Earthgrid Sites pays you $250 when the job is done and your training is complete.  Turn around time is usually within 10 days.

In this special program, all you need to do is have your client click the buy now button on the Starter Packages page for the installment payments. Then, create their 'blank site' on the following page, along with their user ID, and email us the information to us.  (Each site must have a unique user ID.)

We will then build the site 'together' with you as you learn the powerful Earthgrid tools, and within 10 days of completion you will receive $250 in your Paypal account. 

You now will qualify for the Designer program.

The Designer Program (after successfully completing one project as above)

For $499 per site (link) or $800 for 3 sites (link) - you can apply your graphic design skills to doing what you do best:  Designing websites.  We recognize that branding, design and layout often require more budget and more time than implementing a standard web site.  Therefore, Earthgrid will work together with you on deploying the clients' site and you can bill your client directly for your design work.  We will take all the graphics you produce in Photoshop or Illustrator and assist you in deploying your site in the best way possible for your client. The way it works is like this.

Criteria:

• You must have completed at least one Training Program sale, or purchased a site yourself at our normal price of $999.
• You must know how to Photoshop and have some basic understanding of html
• All conversations with the client are done by you
• The invoice and bill for your site is from you.
  
• You charge separately for your design time, logos etc.
• You pay Earthgrid up front for our portion of the work.

If a custom template is required, we will provide you with an estimate of what it will cost in addition to the basic templates.  We can modify the basic Aurora template in many ways to suit your needs. However we realize that sometimes additional programming may be required.  If so, we will give you an estimate of the time and cost (see suggested rate sheet).

Since our business relationship is with you, you will be responsible for paying the set-up fees.  However, the client may use his Paypal account to pay for the hosting after the site is ready to 'go live'   (By "going live', the URL is applied to the clients' own domain name.)

Once you've brought in 3 clients to Earthgrid, this qualifies you to be one of our in-house designers. We are in the process of assembling a directory of designers so that when people fill in our contact forms, they will be able to choose and contact you as a qualified designer.   In addition we may call on you to work on projects for our other clients.