Humm. Wonder who he's talking about?
But just to address this boor's point, after a very nice young gentleman came up with a proposed design and won the contest, he was asked if he would like to do the site's face lift on a commercial basis. Since he is a busy computer science student he declined, and so I am in fact paying "thousands of dollars on a pro graphical artist/web site designer/user interface designer", money which would have gone to the student if he'd been able to accept the assignment.
Now if karieg had simply asked about the situation, rather than being presumptious and making a snide and inaccurate assertion, the facts of the matter would have been known. But, I guess it was just more fun to take a cheap shot.
Jerk!
Michael