Can someone point me to guidelines about outsourcing programming work to remote freelancer?

try this site:
http://www.elance.com
and click on market place

Are you interested in outsourcing? What languages you might like to use and what are the projects you are interested in. Please let me know. I can arange

I'm assuming you mean web page design.
If so, here's one place that I know of:
http://www.vodabids.com/