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  • mekk2

    Oey,

    I like you. This is why I want to give you this honest advice:

    Obviously you have absolutely no experience in the dev field, it seem like you haven't heard of proper alternatives. Your simple domain questions reveal that you have no understanding of databases and DNS.

    Your client wants stuff that is not doable with stock Wordpress and you have to rely on extensions and it seem like you aren't able to template well.

    "Should I use a theme?
    Is it lazy?
    Do it from scratch with HTML/CSS and JS?"

    ^ Man.. is this the way we approach projects? How would you react if your car mechanic works like that?

    My advice to you is don't take on this task, you will have a lot of trouble with the client, even more if she is your housemate and is within your friendship circle.

    Don't take on tasks you have no Idea of. It will end badly for everyone involved I promise. Please learn first before you start charging money.

    Be aware with the vast amount of wordpress extensions out there - it's like the Android App Store, full of scam, full of malware, full of stuff that only works in Pro version. Mostly horror code.

    I'd like to add my comment from three pages above here: http://www.qbn.com/reply/3801802…
    Some commenters there asked a few days later on qbn how to do basic HTML stuff.

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    • Hi mekk! I really appreciate your sincerity and pragmatism. I totally understand what you mean and that's why I posted in the thread.oey
    • I really would like to do it but it's a bit a too big gig with personal relations mixed. I will take the next two weeks to check and decide.oey
    • by checking I mean play a bit with some WP stuff and read more about it plus vs minus points, check tutorials, etc...oey
    • thanks again!oey
    • feel free to ask questions, I can help with frontend stuff :)mekk
    • thanks mekk...I decided not to go forward with that project.oey
    • but i accepted one to do a website for a recording studio of a friend of mine. Ikeep you posted and will ask for advice...for sure ;)oey
    • wordpress plugins are rarely full of malwarefadein11
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