In need of web dev advice/help
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- jayliquori
I designed a site freelance, and the programmers I hired left me with crap code and I need someone to fix some errors.
I have reached out to friends and professional partners to no avail. The only person who looked at the code said he couldn't take it on because he was too busy and it was more work than he originally thought. The site is live now and really shouldn't be...
I am thinking that it's between 7 - 10 hours of work, most of it is probably figuring out what the pervious coder did and fixing it.
Where do I post for a reputable freelancer for this job? (The job board here seems like it's only for big companies)
- Benja820
whats the web address?
- vaxorcist0
what's your list of what's wrong?... need more clarification... and, you're right, most of picking up any unfinished gig is to figure out what the last guy did and left partly done...
can you clarify:
1. missing features?
2. non-working features?
3. just not that great front-end code?
4. CMS issues?
- dbloc0
looks like a super basic site. Yes, what are the problems/errors that you know of?
- jayliquori0
Thanks so much for replying... you can email if you like...
This is the list I am working with in order of importance.
1. Fix the email newsletter submission form success message on the CONTACT page. Originally the form submission sent an email, and returned a success message, now it posts to our mailchimp.com account but doesn't return a success. This confuses the user, and leads them to press submit like 10 times. Bad news bears.
2. Make sure twitter feed loads and stays visible (links are removed after navigated away and back, date and time are missing need to be replaced) problems are different depending on the browser. Also, the dates and times for these posts should be visible in this feed. They were at one point, and with the latest version they aren't.
3. Remove auto buffer from FLA music player, buffer only on the pressing of the play button. It's 4 songs in on 40mb mp3 so i don't want it to suck my bandwidth from my server. Also, change the name of the song in the player.
4. New MUSIC PAGE will be static, and designed in photoshop, with a picture of their EP, track listing, and link to their external Bandcamp page for purchasing. We will give you the layout, for you do code the new page.
5. swap/add/remove out a couple of photos on the photo page and reorder their appearance
2. My client wants to be able to change dates for news articles. I believe it currently is defaulting the date by the time of the post on the server.
6. A few alignment text size and CSS issues for ultra specific anal retentive designers like myself and my partner.
7. try to adress squishing effect on BG full scale images.
8. check compatibility among top browsers, check Mac OS as well as PC.
- dbloc0
get rid of that flash intro for one.
- I know, my client really likes is =[jayliquori
- it*jayliquori
- arghvaxorcist
- make sure they know what that can do to your SEO.....vaxorcist
- i will let them know.jayliquori
- that intro can be done in jquery/html 5BattleAxe
- jayliquori0
Forgot to add that the programmers tried to cut corners with the CMS and hoped i wouldn't notice. Their file directory is really messy and I am sure their code is too.
- vaxorcist0
PHP/mySQL? any framework?
- jayliquori0
I believe all the CMS is php / mySQL... Is that what you meant?
They told me their are using their own custom CMS, i believe it's limited, but when I asked for more functionality they seemed to be able to add it after a big song and dance.
- vaxorcist0
somewhat... there are frameworks like CakePHP, codeIgniter and others that do much of the grunt-work for you.... but it looks like they rolled their own....
Question: Their custom CMS may have some licensing agreement.... did they ask you to sign anything?
- negative... I didn't do much snooping around yet to the meat of the CMS eitherjayliquori
- vaxorcist0
some shops that roll their own CMS require clients to sign a contract that prohibits anyone else from seeing the source code of that CMS....
....hence you have to start over if you switch....
- jayliquori0
Oh I see. I don't believe this was one of the places.
I think it was just one guy and his wife as the manager. I didn't sign anything, and I am sure they are done working on this site. ;-)
- vaxorcist0
I just emailed you.....