[nfbcs] Help with website making decision?

[Blake Hardin]

Well, here is the email from the guy that I was asking about building the site.
Hi Blake,

Its good to hear from you again. So you already know that prices start
from $1500 did you have a budget in mind for this project? I usually
try to work with the client to stay within their budget rather than
just giving quotes. With that being said, if you wanted a paid
registration system we would want to take some more security
precautions than if it was just free registrations which would be
around another $2000 to get set up. SSL certificates are used to
secure the site for your users and they start at around $150/year.

For the content editing we would do it in a way that is most effective
for you. I would recommend that we identify what kind of content you
would be editing whether it be just a couple specific pages or if you
require more control. A lot of the time being able to edit the content
on a couple key pages is all that is required. Content management
systems could range anywhere from $500-$5000 depending on the level of
customization required.

Setting up a blog requires a secure interface for you to use to
add/edit posts and manage comments and users. We would want this
secured like I mentioned with the paid registrations and this usually
is just $500-$1000 depending on needs.

For hosting the site I offer managed cloud hosting, I charge flat rate
$200/month for this and it scales up according to performance and
storage needs. If you already have a hosting provider or just want to
host yourself I can also just give you the source code and
instructions to get it set up and you can host elsewhere.

So what do you guys think? I could maybe do my site myself but I
really don't want to have to worry with the coding aspect at all. I
just want to focus on making good video lessons for the site and
that's it. If I have to do the coding myself, I will never get
anything done I don't think since I will just be learning most of it.
I do however know some basic html stuff but thats about i.

On 3/6/14, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
> hello:
> Usually people have pre-written login systems that they can drop in for
> you. You'd also use something like stripe for credit card payments--I'm
> not sure if wordpress has a plugin for it. If you're interested, feel
> free to get in touch--I'd love to work something out with you to get
> your site going if you want to go the route of the prebuilt site. It
> will be slightly faster than Wordpress, but that also depends on where
> you're hosting it as well--the sites I host usually have a reverse proxy
> on top of them, which means that all of your content is delivered a lot
> faster with the exception of dynamic pages.
> HTH,
> On 3/6/2014 9:57 PM, Blake Hardin wrote:
>> Hi all, since there has been allot of talk on here about website
>> building and such I have a question. I want to create a membership
>> site for guitar lessons. Now, I am not sure where to go here. I want a
>> blog section for myself, a forum for the paying members of the site,
>> and a place where the member can view the lessons. Now, I know I can
>> do all of this with word press and a few plug ins that will cost me
>> around $200 or so, but I would need someone to help me set up themes
>> and such to make it look good. Or, I could have someone build the site
>> for me from scratch however this is going to cost much much more than
>> $200 lol. So what are the pros and cons of both? I would probably use
>> A member pro for the word press plug in because I know it is useable
>> with jaws. But if people are providing there credit cards to me for
>> the subscription to the site, how secure is word press? Or is there a
>> way I can keep the credit cards somewhere else other than the server
>> itself? If someone were to build the site from scratch, would it be
>> more secure? Faster loading times? Any help here would be great. I
>> know people that have an online membership site that they are running
>> with word press so just thought I would ask to see what the best way I
>> should go about doing this is.
>>
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