When we created the web site for the Upstate Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence last year, we did exactly what Deb suggested here. As a result, we came up with a simple and straightforward design that people seem to love. We mostly went to sites of other groups around the country that were doing what we wanted to do for Upstate New York, so we had a specific pool of candidates, and between them they offered almost everything we hoped to offer, at least initially. We created a simple rating form and asked our group of reviewers to use it when getting feedback to us. Folks were very responsive, seemed to have a good time participating in this effort, and we ended up with a very usable, user-friendly, content-rich site. Our web designer seemed to value this type of input highly - and one site, that of Community Resource Exchange in New York City, was the preferred site of many folks, so he used that as his core design from which to work. Basically - the entire process was a rewarding one, and our site debuted on-time and way under budget! (Of course it did help that we have a terrific web developer who is affordable, easy to work with, and continues to help us as we enhance our site!!)