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Topic: Looking for Advice and Maybe Help

Posted By: xeerex
Subject: Looking for Advice and Maybe Help
Date Posted: 07 July 2003 at 6:20pm

Hello all,

I'll try to be brief. There are some really good ASP gurus here so I need some advice.

I have been requested to build a website that has some elements that are currently beyond my ASP skills so I am looking for advice and possibly some collaboration. Yes, there will be payment involved; however, like every client there is a limited budget.

I am linking a pdf document with some of the requested features and functions for the website. What I would like to request is some general opinions/ballpark ranges on charging for something like this. It will have to be database driven obviously, and I should imagine SQL Server will in order for best functionality. Anyway, take a look and gimme some feedback. If I can fully close the deal, I will be needing some help.

PDF file http://rexpage.com/files/sitespecs.pdf - http://rexpage.com/files/sitespecs.pdf

Email if interested in helping mailto:rex@rexpage.com?subject=ChamberHelp - mailto:rex@rexpage.com?subject=ChamberHelp with ChamberHelp in the subject line.

Thanks again and I'm looking forward to your expert advice. I'm also posting this on a few other message boards for those of you that frequent the same message boards as myself.

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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 09 July 2003 at 9:55am

Looks like they want a something serious. I'd go for components if you aren't too confident about programming it yourself.

Investigate various components that sum up to the functionality you are looking for, then see how you can integrate them. You will probably need to go for some custom programming along with them though to force things into compatibility.

Depending upon the traffic they receive, you may need to forego pure ASP components in favor of .NET or compiled components (DLLS/EXE/Whatever) as they are faster.

Looks like a lot of fun though. That's for sure.

Cheers

Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 09 July 2003 at 10:33am

That's actually about 5-6 projects all rolled into one. My suggestion would be to treat it as multiple projects and farm out those parts that you can not do on your own. The e-commerce functionality should be given to someone with e-commerce experience, the calendar to someone who can build a calendar, etc. My suggestion would be to work out the user management and login structure first, so that that information can be given to the outside programmers, so that the site will integrate well in the user area.

Nothing looks beyond the scope of ASP and the overall speed of the application would depend upon the number of people accessing the web site simultaneously. I would definitely recommend a SQL Server back end.

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Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 09 July 2003 at 7:25pm

Thanks for the feedback so far. It is much appreciated.

Now lets suppose that each of you were to take on this project as the leader developer. What would you charge the client?

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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 09 July 2003 at 8:14pm

If I was taking the project as the lead developer, I wouldn't be asking for project pricing on a web forum. Pricing would really depend on how much was going to be integration and how much was new programming. Even small e-commerce packages run the $5000-6000 and that doesn't include integration. With projects like this, I have done a strict hourly rate and a project rate. Get a feel for their budget and put together a proposal that you feel is reasonable.

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