RE: FN-FORUM: What a shame !

date posted 9th August 2003 20:08

....however a lot of people who go for cheap 'templated' sites are put off
the web for a very very long time once they realise how crap their new site
is, and how little it is doing for them and can make it very hard work for
the rest of us to convince them that we are not going to produce rubbish
when they spend a lot more.

Andrew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Carla
> Boulton
> Sent: 09 August 2003 19:23
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: What a shame !
>
>
>
> on 9/8/03 11:18 am, Jonathan Bolton at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> > Work is work, particularly in the current economic climate.
> > Thanks to all of you who sent quotes, and I hope that one of you gets
> > the business.
>
>
> Oh Jonathan, you will always get prices form overseas developers, they are
> registered for projects and can do the work cheaply. You will
> always get the
> die-hards who tell you what they think of your idea and you will
> always get
> a wide range of prices, in our experience a project request comes up with
> about 250 replies of which five are any good and only two will be good
> enough (really)
>
> I thought your request was a bit vague - it seemed a lot of
> effort to quote
> for something which might or might not happen - so we didn't because we
> like to be thorough and professional when we quote. I also
> wondered if you
> were promoting somewhere for people to put their dodgy pics...
>
> You might also like to think that there are not many people who would do a
> job which could, if done very well put them out of work. They might be
> interested with a rolling commission on your turnover.
>
> As someone else pointed out is has been done before. Not many developers
> would be involved with developing a site selling templated sites for a
> tenner when it would cost most if us about a tenner and a few
> hours work to
> set up such a site for themself anyway.
>
> My feeling is that there is always room for competition, that
> most templated
> 'just put your text here' sites look awful and if you think it's a good
> idea, do it and I hope it goes well.
>
> Regards
> Carla
> www.naghtymutt.com
> we don't do templates just very nice tailored CMS at good prices
>
>
>
>
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