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Thread ID: 81469	2007-07-28 12:17:00	Web designer / server side coder wanted	george12 (7)	PC World Chat

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573555	2007-07-29 05:37:00	still at school? ask around the students there might be someone that is learning the skills(might not be up to your standards though). You could also contact the local polytech, bound to be students there studying these skills that could do with the pocket money.	plod (107)
573556	2007-07-29 07:16:00	Maybe you can buy an off-the-shelf website generator / shopping cart software and set up a website yourself. Even this way it will possibly cost more than your budget.	developer (4447)
573557	2007-07-29 09:28:00	still at school? ask around the students there might be someone that is learning the skills(might not be up to your standards though). You could also contact the local polytech, bound to be students there studying these skills that could do with the pocket money. Yes, and students etc is exactly who I have in mind. I know there'll be a few on this forum. Maybe you can buy an off-the-shelf website generator / shopping cart software and set up a website yourself. Even this way it will possibly cost more than your budget. If it was a simple shopping cart I needed, I'd just use oscommerce and modify it. What I want isn't (afaik) offered as a prebuilt package. Um excuse me? Mate, skilled programmers charge 2 - 3 times that amount. OK, well it will seem even more pitiful to programmers who make $120 an hour :p For that price, I think you would be doing it yourself (likewise India). I suppose you want really cheap web hosting too I could possibly do the programming myself, but certainly not the design. I don't need cheap web hosting. Jamuz, I'm looking for anyone who can do the job. No professional is going to do it for the price I'm offering, as everyone here has made clear.	george12 (7)
573558	2007-07-29 10:36:00	What do you want your site to do?	Rob99 (151)
573559	2007-07-29 10:57:00	Yes, and students etc is exactly who I have in mind . I know there'll be a few on this forum . If it was a simple shopping cart I needed, I'd just use oscommerce and modify it . What I want isn't (afaik) offered as a prebuilt package . OK, well it will seem even more pitiful to programmers who make $120 an hour :p I could possibly do the programming myself, but certainly not the design . I don't need cheap web hosting . Jamuz, I'm looking for anyone who can do the job . No professional is going to do it for the price I'm offering, as everyone here has made clear . If you were wanting a website for a worthwhile charity, for that sort of money, then I am sure you would get some takers . However not for a business website . Maybe if you went into some sort of partnership with the developer, where you shared the profits . I know of some web design companies who do this, and take a percentage of the proft that the online store makes, for a cheaper design price . You also may find a web host who may do this, if you host your website with them .	robbyp (2751)
573560	2007-07-29 12:19:00	Web hosting is not an issue, it's under $30 a month pretty much anywhere. Unfortunately it is indeed a business website. I don't want to give a cut of my profit away and would rather pay the full price. But I will still wait and see if anyone is willing to build it for me. $200-300 is just what I hoped to pay. The actual price is to be negotiated with whoever PMs me. It's a computer sales site, to replace the expensive process of selling them on Trade Me, but it doesn't work anything like a normal online store and will be specifically designed for the sale of computer systems, built to customers' specifications. The way I plan to implement this is what will require the coding project, and further details are for PMs, not this thread. To a good coder it might well be very easy. And just to clear up any confusion, it's nothing like Ascent's system builder (as an example).	george12 (7)
573561	2007-07-29 13:18:00	Can you be a little more detailed, you have said what you dont want, but not exactly what you do want. Are there any sites that you want to replicate, even if it is some features from one site and other features from another.	Rob99 (151)
573562	2007-07-30 04:32:00	Web hosting is not an issue, it's under $30 a month pretty much anywhere. Unfortunately it is indeed a business website. I don't want to give a cut of my profit away and would rather pay the full price. I think your only options are to either learn to do it yourself, up your budget to at least a couple of thousand minimum, or hire an indian developer. If it is a proper business, then you should be able to afford to pay a reasonable fee to develop that sort of thing. Indian developers charge around $30 US, so they would probably be too expensive too.	robbyp (2751)
573563	2007-07-30 04:56:00	Can you be a little more detailed, you have said what you dont want, but not exactly what you do want. Are there any sites that you want to replicate, even if it is some features from one site and other features from another. As far as I know there are no sites I want to replicate. I want my site to be a user-friendly way for customers to design their own computer without needing any technical knowledge (other than knowing what memory is, what hard drives are, etc), while still having complete control over the components that go into the system. It needs to be impossible for them to design an impossible system, or one that would work poorly (ie, no QX6800s with a 300W PSU, no DDR2-800 RAM in a motherboard that doesn't support it, etc. The process will be in a 'wizard' format, with customers customising an aspect of the computer at each step. The wizard will give recommendations at each step to help the customer build a well-rounded PC (as opposed to putting 4GB of RAM into a PC with a E4300, for example). If they want to, they can, but the site will suggest that it is not a good idea (or at least recommend 1GB). A user of the site should not need to do anything other than choose an amount of memory, hard drive space, and a CPU to build a computer if they don't want to. Just like a setup wizard, clicking next -> next -> next should result in sensible options being used. At any stage, the completed or partially completed configuration should be able to be saved to the customer's account. Instead of giving a total of the components purchased so far, which would be expected in a shopping-cart type system, an estimated total cost of the system will be given, assuming default options are chosen for the rest of the wizard. This will help users fine tune the PC to their budget as they go. A picture of the computer will be shown as it is built, although this will be simple as it will only include external parts - the case, screen, speakers, keyboard, mouse etc. All steps of the process can be returned to at any time during the wizard, and these steps (along with the options chosen in them) are displayed at all times (unobtrusively somewhere). A selection of pre-designed computers I offer will also be listed, and these can be customised using the same process. Once a computer is fully designed, it will move into a normal checkout process. Edit: Looking at this post made me realise that my budget is indeed a little bit impossible.....	george12 (7)
573564	2007-07-30 05:10:00	I thought people came to PF1 to get their PC designed for free...;) The advice here is certainly valuable and free. What your asking would take more than $300 to design, try closer to 10k or somewhere in between.	winmacguy (3367)
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