Hey,
I've been writing a website for a few months now and have come about as
far as I can without 'professional' help. I've gotten pretty good with
PHP (2 years experience) and I've worked with SQL for many years so I'm
not useless. But I need someone who's not only fluent in a few
languages (especially javascript) but is generally good at all aspects
of web authoring and promoting. The really tricky part is that the role
would be unpaid. Well... not strictly unpaid as there are several
aveneues for revenue on the horizon and, if consistent and committed,
would co-own the site.

So, my question is... How can I go about getting such help? I've looked
at a few 'tendering' sites but it seems to be for paying projects only.
Does anyone know of any free sites (or at least cheap) on which peeps
can post for help/partners/etc? (Not lonely hearts). Anyone else been
in a similar position?

It's a big ask but it must be possible, no?

Thanks,
WOW

Oh, and I've recently begun a CIW qualification, but am concerned I may
have been mis-sold the course as it doesn't seem to be as recognised as
the overly-zealous salesperson claimed. Is it a worthwhile
qualification to have?

"WorldOfWires" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> of web authoring and promoting. The really tricky part is that the role
> would be unpaid. Well... not strictly unpaid as there are several
> aveneues for revenue on the horizon

Simple: invest in your site and pay the professional. That's how it
normally works. If there is revenue on the horizon it shouldn't be an
issue. It only is an issue if it's a pipe dream. And the sad thing is,
most of those projects are, which is probably also the reason while you
are looking for a sucker^H^H^H^H^Hsomeone with a lot of free time.

> and, if consistent and committed,
> would co-own the site.

Great, I have a rock here, you want to become a co-owner of it in exchange
for building a house for me?

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That last answer was a nice guy right?


My advise is to run, not walk, away from PHP junk. I've delt with it
for years and I've been on other PHP sites and all they do is CRASH,
like all the time. Remember you get what you pay for and PHP and
supporting engine is free.


Absolute Junk!

RSC

PS: RegisterFLY lost my domain for me. I now join the thousand others
who have been ripped off by this company.

RSC wrote:

> Remember you get what you pay for and PHP and
> supporting engine is free.

The same is true of Perl. What language do you suggest the OP use?

RSC wrote:
> That last answer was a nice guy right?
>
>
> My advise is to run, not walk, away from PHP junk. I've delt with it
> for years and I've been on other PHP sites and all they do is CRASH,
> like all the time.

Script is as good as the one who makes it. Alas, there are bad PHP coders
in abundance.

> PS: RegisterFLY lost my domain for me. I now join the thousand others
> who have been ripped off by this company.

My condolances.
--
Rik Wasmus

RSC wrote:

>
> That last answer was a nice guy right?
>
>
> My advise is to run, not walk, away from PHP junk. I've delt with it
> for years and I've been on other PHP sites and all they do is CRASH,
> like all the time. Remember you get what you pay for and PHP and
> supporting engine is free.

Which would you say is more superior, then? I've seen an ASP.NET site
slowly put an IIS instance to a grinding halt, too (several times a
week).

I believe a site made using any programming language is only as good as
the programmer. If the programmer does the job right, a PHP site can
very stable, too.

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K Thanks folks,

I'm happy with PHP but probably because I haven't come across any
crashing issues. Anyway, anyone think the CIW is worth doing? If not,
what's a better alternative? The CIW has quite a varied curriculum but
then that may mean it covers nothing in sufficient depth....

RSC wrote:

> My advise is to run, not walk, away from PHP junk. I've delt with it
> for years and I've been on other PHP sites and all they do is CRASH,
> like all the time. Remember you get what you pay for and PHP and
> supporting engine is free.

The number one site in the world by traffic, Yahoo[1], uses PHP[2]
almost[3] exclusively.

____
1. Alexa.com, Jan 2007.
2. http://www.radwin.org/michael/blog/2...entation_.html
3. Recently, Yahoo has made a string of acquisitions (del.icio.us, Flikr,
Konfabulator, JumpCut, MyBlogLog, AdInterax, WhereOnEarth, etc) many of
which do not use PHP. Judging by past behaviour, it seems likely that
Yahoo will eventually rewrite them in PHP, but not until it judges they
genuinely need a complete overhaul. (Much like they did with eGroups --
they kept it running business as usual for ages, with just a tiny bit
of Yahoo branding, then a couple of years later after it had stagnated
a while feature-wise, rewrote it almost from scratch with much tighter
integration into the rest of Yahoo.)

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