Hi all,
A client asked me to create a low-budget ‘dating website’. Is it possible to make something like this in Freeway Pro?
Thank you for your suggestions,
Bart
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It depends on how you define “low-budget.” Anything is possible with Freeway, well excluding ease of use in creating things in a few areas, but you could build a ‘dating website’ either using a cms system (probably not webyep) and work from there.
That though could be a project that takes a while to develop, much like all relationships. (har-har…)
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There’s a whole category of scripts – free and paid – over at
HotScripts, just waiting to be explored:
http://www.hotscripts.com/category/php/scripts-programs/match-making/
Walter
On Feb 9, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Dan J wrote:
It depends on how you define “low-budget.” Anything is possible
with Freeway, well excluding ease of use in creating things in a few
areas, but you could build a ‘dating website’ either using a cms
system (probably not webyep) and work from there.That though could be a project that takes a while to develop, much
like all relationships. (har-har…)
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Hi,
I hade a look at hotscrips.com and I found http://www.azdg.com/scripts.php#2
what has a very good rating =>5/5.
Is it easy to integrate this script in Freeway? This is totally new for me: the idea of integrating a script in Freeway and also, as a happy married man, the whole project : )
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I’ve never tried any of these scripts (or sites!) so I can’t say.
Usually, a system such as these will have a clear separation between
the templates (which drive the look of the thing) and the data and the
logic (which drive the content). If you’re lucky, you should be able
to take the existing templates and either modify them by hand, or pick
out the bits of code that they use and plop those into your Freeway
layout, then replace the templates with your Freeway-generated HTML.
But that depends a LOT on how they have structured things. Sometimes
you will find that the developers have taken the easy way (for them)
of separating the page into all these separate sub-page templates, so
there’s a header template, a footer template, a sidebar template, etc.
And they each have a different part of the puzzle to concern
themselves with. Freeway doesn’t fit very neatly into that sort of
system, not without a lot of hacking and swearing with the text editor.
For any of these that don’t require that you pay for them up front,
download, and look through the files you get for anything that appears
to be “templates” or “skins” or whatever they call them. For any that
do require that you pay, contact the developer and ask him or her to
send you a couple example skins. They shouldn’t mind, since you can’t
do anything useful with just that. If they tell you that the entire
look and feel is changed through CSS, then buy any book by Dan
Cedarholm and get cracking in CSSEdit.
Walter
On Feb 9, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Bart wrote:
Hi,
I hade a look at hotscrips.com and I found http://www.azdg.com/scripts.php#2
what has a very good rating =>5/5.
Is it easy to integrate this script in Freeway? This is totally new
for me: the idea of integrating a script in Freeway and also, as a
happy married man, the whole project : )Bart
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I am always very wary when the client starts with criteria like Low Budget
To me that means Inferior Product
What sort of customer does he think is going to be attracted to a Low Budget site - low budget clients methinks! I mean just look at the marketing budget some of his potential competitors have. There’s an ad on the telly every 1/2 hour for one of them.
Potentially this could be a hugely labour intensive task - especially when you are walking on unfamiliar ground.
So for that reason I would say tread carefully - preferably in the opposite direction.
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Thank you all for the advice. At start I was glad to have a new project, I’m wondering if it isn’t better not to start with it?
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Just be sure that you talk it through extensively with the client - what his expectations are, what his budget will stretch to - are these compatible?
I do envisage that this will require a fair bit of code/template tweaking - and if it goes anywhere then in the long term custom coding.
Are you comfortable with all that?
D
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Hi,
I’m afraid I’m not comfortable with it…
It all seems too hard for me to realize myself. I’m not familiar to work with code. Lucky for me, most of the time I don’t have to (thanks to Freeway).
The budget of the client is about 500 euro.
Anyone, who has the time and wants to help me with (re)writing this code, can contact me at this temporary email address: 5nob2lz63gy4k4y(at)jetable.org
With the price and input I’ll receive, I can make a proposition to the client.
Otherwise I’ll tell the client it is too complicated for me to do.
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You weren’t joking when you said ‘Low Budget’!
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