Project 31-A

Wayne and I are remodeling our kitchen. In the process, we are shopping for cabinets. We want quality cabinets in the look that goes with our craftsman home. The high-end price is twice as much as the next quote down in dollar value. While we aren't comparing apples to apples, we are trying to. I keep comparing our kitchen remodel and new-construction backporch to a web site. I know nothing about cabinets and most web site clients know nothing about quality web sites. One of the cabinet salesman said the cabinets were guaranteed for life. No software manufacturer would ever say that. Some pointed questions reveled that only certain things were guaranteed. What should a non-technical client expect from your final product? They won't ask all the questions you know they should. So lets work on some quality questions: 1) What error detection, communication, and recovery is provided? No one expects it to break so they won't ask this unless they have been burne...

So now you have a business website  and you control the content. It provides enough functionality that 70% of your needs are covered. However, you have a custom process that needs to be available on your website. This can be a common function that your Site Builder provider did not provide with your packaged website or it can be something specific to your business.  How do you make this available to your customer base from your website? A few assumptions: You purchased your domain name, such as MyBooksForSale.com. You can describe in detail your custom process. Common web functionality such as a shopping cart does not need to be designed. Good examples of a custom processes are: pricing models, data exchange (possibly in files such as blueprints or accounting spreadsheets).  You have the time and money to maintain the available of this process to your customers on your website. Once the process is made available, you can fulfill the end result if there is one. ...

I have met several local business people that either want or need a business web site beyond a brochure site. This post is aimed at those people so this category is not for techies per say but is a forum to discuss the client side of the business. Let's assume the web client needs to be able to Introduce Company and People Provide contact information and previous work bonafides Provider specific and detailed information about the products or services they provide to local clientele Provide access so that company person can manage site's information Show enough design thought that customers don't think someone's eight-year old just learned HTML So why pay a programmer (like me) upwards of $60/hour for this. This is basically a web site builder . You can buy this for around $10/month with more features and designs than you need. What skills do you need to be able to do this yourself? Able to use a computer browser Able to type/edit on keyboard Able to read and...