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A friend of mine just called to ask for my help. His client hired a company to do a cheap website and host it for him. I think he paid $600 for the site and $30/mo. to host it. Apparently, his client is not happy with the service he’s getting so he called the company that designed the website and asked them for the files, which they gladly gave him.

Upon review of the files, it looks like they simply gave him the content. The structure seems to be coming from a backend template that’s on the hosting company’s server. The bottom line is his client thinks he can simply drag and drop the files to a new server and it’ll work, and looking at the code I don’t think that’s the case.

Can somebody take a look at this and let me know if I’m correct? Thanks guys.

http://whiteslandscaping.com

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This is a very professionally-coded site, but all we can see of it is the HTML once generated by the CMS, not the template that creates the look of it. If all you got was the written word, not the HTML, then you have to decide what you want to do next. There is a very clear copyright statement at the top of the source, indicating that it may only be hosted (with the template) through Market Hardware Inc.

First, what is your friend’s beef with the site as is?

Second, what are you prepared to do for him vis-a-vis Freeway, using the content provided? Who owns (or licensed) the images? If you paste some of the content you got into Gist or Pastie, and pose a link here to the page that generates, we can see exactly how it was done.

https://gist.github.com or http://pastie.org

Walter

On Oct 12, 2012, at 2:21 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

A friend of mine just called to ask for my help. His client hired a company to do a cheap website and host it for him. I think he paid $600 for the site and $30/mo. to host it. Apparently, his client is not happy with the service he’s getting so he called the company that designed the website and asked them for the files, which they gladly gave him.

Upon review of the files, it looks like they simply gave him the content. The structure seems to be coming from a backend template that’s on the hosting company’s server. The bottom line is his client thinks he can simply drag and drop the files to a new server and it’ll work, and looking at the code I don’t think that’s the case.

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http://whiteslandscaping.com

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Hey Walter,

I thought the same thing. Apparently, he’s upset because he feels they’re not updating the site fast enough. I did see the copyright and explained to him that the site structure and design are the property of the design company, so I was unwilling to use any of the existing design or structure. The images and content do belong to him though.

I’ll probably do a simple ground up design using FWP.

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Here you go: email@hidden:0afd5f51f2b6b841695d.git

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Now that doesn’t look right.

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On the page where you made the Gist, just copy the URL of that page, and let’s see how that looks. Be sure to put it all alone on a line, with a line-break before and after.

That’s the first Gist ever published.

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On Oct 12, 2012, at 5:34 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

Now that doesn’t look right.

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Sweet. That’s a cool tool.

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This actually looks pretty usable. A decent PHP programmer could sort out the installation of this almost anywhere that PHP is running (which is nearly everywhere). All the HTML is there, the PHP parts are just to assemble the template components together, from what I see here. If the hosting company gave this to your friend’s client, then presumably they gave permission to host it elsewhere, maybe? It might be worth pursuing.

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On Oct 12, 2012, at 5:42 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

Sweet. That’s a cool tool.

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