[nfbcs] Help with website making decision?

Fri Mar 7 06:40:43 UTC 2014

hi,

As Ty said, those prices are insane.
I was able to learn php and mysql as i went and created 
www.fantasydragracingleague.com in about 240 hours and one feature that 
needed ajax and jquery was over my head and i paid a guy on freelancer.com 
to knock it out.
I was going to use paypal buttons to collect payment but had to allow 
everyone to play for free due to a professional world champion wanting to 
play the game and payouts to a professional would be a major issue.  Go 
daddy handled everything for about $200 long term and there are tools i 
haven't even thought of using yet.
Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blake Hardin" <blakehardin5487 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Help with website making decision?

> 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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>>
>> --
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>> Ty
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>> that
>> dares not reason is a slave.
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