People that know their stuff (not gods, but not people that think that just because they read a couple of feeds, ebooks and such think they are coders)
I'm not looking for "uber"coders, far from it, just somebody that does know and has a little to show (i.e portfolio)
it is very hard, ive been looking for a decent one on getafreelancer, but i got scammeed once and the next guy sucked.
Ive got decent web design from there, but decent programmers are hard to find
No where, unfortunately they have all been injured , killed, or offended. If it hasn't happened to them personally, this curse has afflicted their immediate family.
Have you tried rentacoder.com ? No personal experience since I do all coding myself but the site has been around for years so it must work for a lot of people.
I build my own sites, so not a problem for me on that end, I have a similar problem finding good designers.
I usually ask for referrals from friends, or go to sites that I like and try and contact the people that made them to see if they are available for hire.
^^^^^ Yep - that's about right - that said, I usually find mine word of mouth, start them with small stuff, see how they do, then move on to the bigger stuff.