Our Website Design is Terrible

There is a lot of work to get CodeIgniter back Up To Date as a Framework and perhaps the website should move in the same speed.

I think that there is no point to hurry about Site Design, but it will be good if we update the current one ASAP.

For a real Theme it will be good if we open a Contest.
I believe that a lot of designers will want to be involved. Perhaps there can be some kind of a Price (can be a real money or smarter linking inside the website - footer and even Contributors page, "Designed By XXX" ).
At the same time the Contest by it self can be placed in some Freelance platform as oDesk, Freelancer or other. I believe that if we contact their staff, they will accept to let a free contest in their sites (with some marketing brand to brand agreement ).

Regards

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