[nfbcs] Help with website making decision?

Sat Mar 8 07:37:13 UTC 2014

No answers here? haha

On 3/7/14, Blake Hardin <blakehardin5487 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
>>> 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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>>>> Ty
>>>> http://tds-solutions.net
>>>> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he
>>>> that
>>>> dares not reason is a slave.
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