help! Copyright laws or legal advice Please

Will the site be registered with their info? If you decide that the site isn't what you want, or want to change it later, will it cost you more? Will you have the ability to change it? My suggestion is - forgo the offer. I did a similar thing over a year ago. I proofread someone's book (usually costing about $2k) in exchange for that person to host a website for free. After some time, I wanted to change the site, but found that the person was difficult to work with on those changes. My suggestion is to find a free website (www.freewebs.com is what I've used for over a year, and is wonderful for the non-web design person) and use that. No payments, you can update whenever you want. If you want your own domain name, then just buy one and redirect it to your free site. Ten times better than letting someone else design it, and you have the freedom and ability to update it to your own needs and ideas. Not to mention, you're not reliant on someone you've never met. Check out my site at www.freewebs.com/puppetsinmelbourne. I created that with no knowledge of website design and most people who use Freewebs are non- web design people. Also, do you want a pretty looking site, do you want a blog (just something for daily entries); what do you want to do with it? If you're a member of Arts Hub, you can have a blog for free (see mine at http://stickyapplelegs.artsblogs.com). You would be surprised at how easy it is to use blogs, and in fact, www.modblogs.com (if that's correct, if not just Google) has the best free blogs on offer I've ever seen. Lastly, website design actually would probably cost you around $100 per hour spent on creating the site (sites can take a long time to build, even for experienced people), and someone doing this voluntarily will not do as good a job or be as interested in updating it as someone who is paid would. If you do decide to go ahead, draw up a contract between the two of you and make sure everything (DOWN TO THE LAST DETAIL) is agreed upon, and keep ALL YOUR CORRESPONDENCE with this person. That way, if anything does go wrong, you will have materials to back you up. But since this person is not in the same country, you would also have to consider dispute resolution in international laws. Not an easy task. If you do need some help, let me know. I've designed my three sites myself with very little design knowledge, and there's plenty of websites on offer for those of us who know nothing about it. Better to do it yourself than have to deal with someone you don't know. The Prompt Copy Networking emerging theatre professionals www.thepromptcopy.com Sticky Apple Legs http://stickyapplelegs.artsblogs.com