RE: FN-FORUM: Small Job required for website

date posted 31st January 2006 14:56


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I must say tho, oscommerce is a fantastic out of the box app for people =
with
no experience but it's a swine to develop for, the code is uber messy, =
its
crying out for templates and class based coding..

ash
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Thing is, theres always someone who will under cut you and do a naffy =
job of
it too, but clients will almost always go for the cheaper price if they =
are
not experienced in these matters.

ash
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Totally agree twice. We've got our own code libraries that we've =
developed
over the years, but it's no-longer worth offering custom solutions for =
carts
as it's hard to compete on features with any of the open source stuff. =20

I'd say as far as back office freelancers:

"The problem with freelance BACK OFFICE is there are too many =
freelancers,
and too many COWBOYS"... Making it difficult for those of us with 10+ =
years
experience to quote a decent fee for a decent, fully waranted, secure =
and
maintainable solution.