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If anyone can recommend a good website developer with coding skills and knowledge in this field, won’t you please PM me details. Must be someone who understands code and scripting, and be able to think out the box.

I need a website for personal use, and widgets and templates have their limitations.

Thanks
 
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what's wrong with widgets and templates?
90% of the personal websites in the world seem to work fine with them...

you need to be more clear about what you want.
do you need a cms?
do you have a preference of platform?
do you have some specific functionality that you need custom coded?
what's your budget?

cheap + able to think out of the box + able to do decent code normally don't go together.
 
yeah I hear what you say. Templates are great, and make my website look pretty. But I need custom code to allow my website to interact with a third party payment gateway, and I'm at a dead end because there are no plugins.

So someone who can use php and Joomla would be best suited to this task.

We can chat about costs later...
 
Ever heard of 2Checkout.com? PayPal? OsCommerce? CubeCart?

You don't need custom coding these days and you certainly won't find it for your website at less than R25-50k, depending on your specific needs.
 
I am sure Joomla will have some plugins/widgets etc which can do integrations with payment gateways if it isnt your payment gateway it shouldn't be to difficult to code if the payment gateway has clear api docs. (Some don't)

There is nothing wrong with widgets, templates etc on cms's like WordPress/Joomla. What is worse is badly coded own development not being supported/maintained by the coder.

So you really have to think twice about custom code development, for one it is a lot more expensive and if your coder abandons you who is going to take over the project

Standard plugins/widgets whatever they are called are in most cases updated on a regular base, while with custom development unless the pay is good it might slack after a while.
 
moklet said:
There is nothing wrong with widgets, templates etc on cms's like WordPress/Joomla. What is worse is badly coded own development not being supported/maintained by the coder.
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Thanks, point taken.
 
Pixual said:
Ever heard of 2Checkout.com? PayPal? OsCommerce? CubeCart?

You don't need custom coding these days and you certainly won't find it for your website at less than R25-50k, depending on your specific needs.
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Our website needed a pay member restricted area, and from what i understand a shopping cart wouldn't be able to support it (since I'm not selling anything physical). Ideally, the website would redirect a new user to a payment gateway then allow them access to the website for 30 days. After 30 days, either renewal of the account for access, or deleted off system. I must also be able to generate free codes for those who cannot afford such costs (its for scholars)- and these free passes amount to 89% of my users...

Any suggestions?
 
I'm sure this was possible using Joomla, back in 1.5 already.

Have you looked at the e-commerce CMS suites? I know that functionality is available, but can't think offhand where I saw it.
 
turbine said:
Our website needed a pay member restricted area, and from what i understand a shopping cart wouldn't be able to support it (since I'm not selling anything physical). Ideally, the website would redirect a new user to a payment gateway then allow them access to the website for 30 days. After 30 days, either renewal of the account for access, or deleted off system. I must also be able to generate free codes for those who cannot afford such costs (its for scholars)- and these free passes amount to 89% of my users...

Any suggestions?
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I am doing precisely this on my main community website with Invision Power Board and a few of its plug ins. It's not free, the documentation is awful and the only payment gateway available is PayPal, BUT, once you get the hang of it you can control access to content with subscriptions very easily.

It's taken me about three months to come to grips with this as a CMS and there are some elements that don't work as well as WordPress (especially their pages), but I am much preferring it to my old system of SMF/WordPress, purely because of the easy integration with a shopping cart system.
 
Pixual said:
I am doing precisely this on my main community website with Invision Power Board and a few of its plug ins. It's not free, the documentation is awful and the only payment gateway available is PayPal, BUT, once you get the hang of it you can control access to content with subscriptions very easily.

It's taken me about three months to come to grips with this as a CMS and there are some elements that don't work as well as WordPress (especially their pages), but I am much preferring it to my old system of SMF/WordPress, purely because of the easy integration with a shopping cart system.
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Err I can't say I fully understand what you mean- but thats because I don't understand 'web/internet' language that well...
Is it easy to transfer from Joomla to wordPress- or am I completely off the topic here?
 
I don't know Joomla very well. WordPress is a completely different animal to IPB. WP is good for personal publishing and for many basic website needs, BUT it is becoming increasingly susceptible to hackers and one has to ensure that the core code is always up to date, otherwise the results of being hacked can be disastrous. I have had three clients running WP hacked in the last couple of months. All of them were using old versions well below the current release.

There are probably some plugins available for WP to restrict access to various parts of the site. I haven't found one I could use with a forum yet, which is why I eventually decided to bite the bullet and go for IPB, which is a properly integrated suite of programs to run a community with (forum, blog, content management, shop, gallery, chat and more). I will say that setting up IPB is not for the feint-hearted and if I were to be commissioned to do an IPB site I would be charging around R300 an hour - you'd be looking at hundreds and hundreds of hours.
 
Pixual said:
I will say that setting up IPB is not for the feint-hearted and if I were to be commissioned to do an IPB site I would be charging around R300 an hour - you'd be looking at hundreds and hundreds of hours.
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There seems a large number of tutorials out there for IPB. But I've been approached by a developer who would do a set-up for a fraction of the cost (just need to buy the software and plugins which can add up quickly...)
 
Pixual said:
Tread carefully. Ask for references and examples of previous work done. Contact the customers too.
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Thanks, good advice (for anyone reading this thread too): its why I'm in this mess :(
 
dude start looking at magento there E commerce is very very good i started using it and its very good go check it out
 
turbine said:
Thanks, good advice (for anyone reading this thread too): its why I'm in this mess :(
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It really irritates me reading this kind of thing, especially this last year. I see more and more of these threads about developers doing shoddy work, or just upping and leaving a project 90% completed. I'm currently helping someone out when needed because of just this issue, previous developer did not so great work...then put off finishing it. So I finished it...and now this previous developer wants payment for his intellectual property (the guy was hired per hour - he had no say in the actual intellectual property of the system and how it functions).

So ja...fixed up some of his mess, and finished the system. I am yet to come across decently written and commented code from a previous developer...
 
Pixual said:
$2,995 per annum is hardly cheap for Magento!
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Thats for the hosting if i have it right
I have been running magento with no hassles at all
for the past few months
The Support forum is just a mayor pain
 
CrazyFig said:
So I finished it...and now this previous developer wants payment for his intellectual property (the guy was hired per hour - he had no say in the actual intellectual property of the system and how it functions)
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Wait a sec: is this current developer the 'owner' of my website? I've paid in full for an incomplete product that needs fixing, but I was hoping to own the website in its entirety...
 
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