Budget? Are you redesigning the main site at the same time? (If you
are, you have more latitude to use blogging software that you might
find more difficult to style in Freeway – you just make the public
site look more like one of the blog templates and you’re all set.)
What is the actual purpose for the blog part? Is the client going to
maintain it, or are you expected to?
There is Blogger integration in Freeway, and it’s pretty easy to style
a Blogger page to look precisely like the rest of the site, if that’s
your goal. That portion of the site would have to be hosted from the
blogger domain, and I’m not sure if there’s a way to use a CNAME to
point blog.yourdomain.com to yourblog.blogger.com and have everything
just work.
For the course booking part, some more details would be helpful. If
you need to track how many people have registered for a course, and
mark it as closed then a limit is hit, that’s an important question to
ask of any off-the-shelf booking system you look at, or to communicate
to a developer.
As a budgeting guide, you can expect to pay between $100 and $300 per
hour for an experienced Web Application programmer in the US (East
Coast, no idea about other parts). It’s usually true that the more
they charge, the more quickly they can finish a project and the more
they will bring to the project (in terms of experience and being able
to anticipate problems you haven’t thought of yet).
Walter
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:36 AM, MarkSmith wrote:
Hi everyone; I was wondering if anyone may be able to help me.
I have been approached by a potential client who needs a site to
incorporate the following things:
- PayPal integration
- Online course-booking system
- Social blog
I am a reasonably experienced user of FW5 and I think No. 1 won’t
cause me to many problems but I need a programmer to help with the
course-booking system (unless anyone can recommend another approach?)
Also I have not yet installed a blog and I maybe need a little nudge
in that department. WordPress would seem a good choice and maybe
b2evolution but another that I have been looking at is socialgo http://www.socialgo.com/
This option was presented to me by the client so I think it may be
preferable but I have no experience of it.
How easy is it to install blog software and are there any other
alternatives?
Thank you so much for any help you can give me. I have a meeting
next week with the client and I would like to go armed with as much
information as possible.
Many thanks
Mark
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