One thing I'm doing to keep the cost of a designer low is to have them focus on things I know I'm not good at. I can slice the layout in Photoshop, markup the

One thing I'm doing to keep the cost of a designer low is to have them focus on things I know I'm not good at. I can slice the layout in Photoshop, markup the HTML and code the CSS--so I don't have the designer do any of these things. I have them focus on things I'm not good at--colors, typography, general look and feel, etc... This saves some money and let's me maintain control over the code base (which I like).