Advice on getting web design?

With Wordpress and all the free theme, anyone can learn and create a very nice website within a week if not a day.

Try WordPress.. They are comparatively cheap and easy to edit.. Buy a good looking theme and customize it by yourself or by little help from developer..

I am not sure what kind of enterprise you are starting up, but from your description I am going to assume it will be some sort of web-based app.

Don't hire a designer, yet. With your startup, work on what is unique about your startup, and try to leverage existing tools and services for everything else.

Start building your website using bootstrap. Bootstrap 3 or 4 would be a safe bet. Bootstrap can be styled very nicely. It does not depend on any back-end or front-end technology, so this choice will not limit your choices for the rest of your stack. It won't look fantastic out of the box, but you are setting the foundation for styling it later and making it look great. The most important thing is you can continue building your app knowing that you will not have to re-do the UIs in order the style them.

Look for a bootstrap theme that suits your needs. Check out wrapbootstrap.com or search for "bootstrap theme" on Google. You will find that for <$35 you can get a theme that looks and feels like a well-polished application. These themes look modern and will give you a great-looking app right out of the box. They will be easy to integrate with your app, since your app is being built with bootstrap (while you are simultaneously deciding which theme you like best).

Don't focus on the color scheme of the theme. These can be changed trivially.

Keep in mind that this is only a few bucks, so don't worry about making a mistake.

The biggest drawback of these themes is that they look like every other web app out there. This is not necessarily a bad thing. You will have a site that will look like the other modern applications.

I've been building web applications for 17 years, and web sites even longer. I currently work with firms who have full-time designers. They produce beautiful work that is highly customized for the type of app that is being built. I also am starting my own SaaS company, and went down the route I described to you. I am just now getting to a point where I am hiring a designer to touch up a few things with my app and the theme I bought.

Eventually, you will need to hire a designer, but with Bootstrap and available themes you can get much farther than you can imagine.

Wordpress is easy to learn and there are a lot of resources and forums with plenty of people that will help you.
To start with Wordpress is really a good choice. Don't reinvent the wheel by getting someone to do something from scratch. I personally do not like Joomla but I know some people prefer it to Wordpress.
Its a well tested CMS with tons of free templates and plug ins. And if you need help or advice just shout. I know there are quite a few Wordpress developers on the forums, that will be happy to help.

If you have no experience with websites, but just want a beautiful website, then I'd recommend Fiverr. Guys will set you up for just 5$. Lot of service providers, too.

You deride Wordpress but I don't think you realize or understand that there are two distinctly different forms of Wordpress: Wordpress (dot) COM and Wordpress (dot) ORG.

The dot com version is probably the version you are referring to where sites are hosted on their server and are never your own. They can be removed at a whim.

On the other hand, the dot org version is a very sophisticated content management system which you host yourself using your own domain name and is your property, right down to the last pixel. Some of the biggest corporations in the world promote their services via Wordpress dot ORG websites.