[nfbcs] Help with website making decision?

Fri Mar 7 08:43:41 UTC 2014

Hi, yeah the 1500 was just for a small page website like if I had a
small business or something. Now, maybe that is the normal price for
someone that already has a business up an running hahha but I really
don't know. Does seem quite steep to me to. Anyway, what is a quote
for building this from wordpress as well as from scratch? I already
run a blog using wordpress at
http://onlineleadguitarlessons.com
so I know about all the plug ins and such and how to install them. So,
if I were to go the word press rout, I could buy and install the plug
ins but I would still want someone to configure the themes for me and
such to make it look good. And for Tyler, how would we do this without
being able to see it? Is that were sighted help might come in? Thanks.

On 3/7/14, Bryan Schulz <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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?
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>
>> 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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