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maumau

maumau

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my brother needs someone to redesign and develop their company website. he's done the current one himself but doesn't have time to design and create a new one. once it's up he'll maintain the site.

he's asked me to find a reputable programmer who won't rip them off - one of you guys should be perfect :-)) :-))

Lynx Optics are wholesalers so there's no online purchasing - the site is basically an online catalogue. if anyone's interested please phone Michael, his number's on the current website:

www.lynx.co.za

P.S. hopefully this post isn't breaching any protocol. if it is will one of the mods be kind enough to let me know/move it to where it should be.
 
I wouldn't pay an Indian to sniff my farts dude, keep it local instead and you know your stuff will be done like you want it
 
Pooky said:
Maybe people are scared of you because you are racist
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I'm a factist. If you're from the country India and you offer web design/programming services, you suck.

I've worked with many of them before, locally and while I was in Dubai, and they never deliver on deadline, never have an optimized solution (I kept hearing our server wasn't good enough for 1 website) and would most likely just disappear with your money

If I were to be racist I'd call him a curry muncher or something
 
AcidRaZor said:
I'm a factist. If you're from the country India and you offer web design/programming services, you suck.

I've worked with many of them before, locally and while I was in Dubai, and they never deliver on deadline, never have an optimized solution (I kept hearing our server wasn't good enough for 1 website) and would most likely just disappear with your money

If I were to be racist I'd call him a curry muncher or something
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Well Vipin will probably do a much better job than anything you can develop.
 
Don't mean to sound paranoid or anything, but I would recommend you contact web design company directly.
A first time post that meets all your requirements? Sounds too convenient.
 
AcidRaZor said:
I'm a factist. If you're from the country India and you offer web design/programming services, you suck.

I've worked with many of them before, locally and while I was in Dubai, and they never deliver on deadline, never have an optimized solution (I kept hearing our server wasn't good enough for 1 website) and would most likely just disappear with your money

If I were to be racist I'd call him a curry muncher or something
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Your inductive reasoning will soon have you labelled a bigot. :whistle:
 
actually i posted here hoping that one of the MyBB regulars would respond :-)

i also noticed Vipin has only 1 post and not to be critical the sites he links to aren't great - but that's all up to Mike.

appreciate your input guys.
 
Maumau your requirements are basic so the process should be not that hard. You don't require a web developer as they would in any case just reuse an existing store front system.
If you want to move the site from static HTML to dynamic I would imagine you first way up what server side solution you would like to use e.g. Wordpress or Magento. Even though you don't require it to have ecommerce capabilities now you could want to do so in the future if your sales go up
Then does your hoster support your chosen solution.
Then do you need a web designer if you want to redesign the company unique graphics and want a unique look and feel
If no then either decide on a template in the web system or just ask just go with the basic template that is a Flat UI feel which isn't a bad thing as minimalist is the way to go.
Once you have those questions answered you just need someone to put it all together and train you to add and modify products.
 
i like what you're saying nfbs - thank you for your clear breakdown.
 
AcidRaZor said:
I wouldn't pay an Indian to sniff my farts dude, keep it local instead and you know your stuff will be done like you want it
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LOL

I investigated outsourcing to India and spoke to a lot of local companies. Same story got repeated: everybody was happy but stopped using them as Indian devs always work to the spec. They will never point something out, never correct something and will never make suggestions. There code is always a mess, lots of cut 'n paste and they are limited to what they can do.

Only one company I know of still uses Indian devs and thats to do their styling on sites, even then the South African guys still have to preper all the work for them.

After that I'm no longer afraid of "How I lost my job to India"
 
maumau said:
my brother needs someone to redesign and develop their company website. he's done the current one himself but doesn't have time to design and create a new one. once it's up he'll maintain the site.
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Tell your brother to look at a CMS like Wordpress for the site. I did a site for a local products importer in Wordpress and it was easy and cheap.

All he really needs is a good theme and guys like http://www.obox-design.com/ deliver some quality ones.

The advantage to Wordpress is its easier to find staff to support it and there are dozens of quality plugins to handle things like SEO.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
LOL

I investigated outsourcing to India and spoke to a lot of local companies. Same story got repeated: everybody was happy but stopped using them as Indian devs always work to the spec. They will never point something out, never correct something and will never make suggestions. There code is always a mess, lots of cut 'n paste and they are limited to what they can do.

Only one company I know of still uses Indian devs and thats to do their styling on sites, even then the South African guys still have to preper all the work for them.

After that I'm no longer afraid of "How I lost my job to India"
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Shhhh, the abzo and jeanres peoples will tell you you don't know anything and they indian's will do a better job. Just smile and wave dude.... smile and wave...

Nothing to see here boys.... go outsource your stuff to India, heck, sometimes when I have money to burn I buy porn....
 
AcidRaZor said:
Shhhh, the abzo and jeanres peoples will tell you you don't know anything and they indian's will do a better job. Just smile and wave dude.... smile and wave...

Nothing to see here boys.... go outsource your stuff to India, heck, sometimes when I have money to burn I buy porn....
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I don't want my websites to have links to supplements at the bottom of each page.
 
abzo said:
I don't want my websites to have links to supplements at the bottom of each page.
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I'm doing that as a favor for a friend who runs his own business. Link juice is what Google loves.

In any case, like I said, what do I know hey.... I just WORKED in the Middle East for a year. Go ahead and hire their services and see how many viagra links you get to your website :) (it's their way of SEO)
 
AcidRaZor said:
Shhhh, the abzo and jeanres peoples will tell you you don't know anything and they indian's will do a better job. Just smile and wave dude.... smile and wave...

Nothing to see here boys.... go outsource your stuff to India, heck, sometimes when I have money to burn I buy porn....
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Whats your cell number again, just want to check our database to see if you've already joined our latest adult SMS club ;)
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Reminds me to add some juice to my sig but first need to get some Indian devs to make it look pretty n all you know.
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lol, and then the pretty-ness brings down a beast of a server cause it cant handle the traffic :)

and i prefer my porn in video form. not sms :p
 
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