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- jox
I realise this is as difficult for a developer to answer as it is for a designer to answer how much a logo costs, but maybe somebody did this in the past and can share some ballpark figures.
I'm looking to hire a developer to create an entire news site. We all know how they look and function so I don't need to spell out the details.
How long would it take to create such a thing? Ad databases, wysiwyg-editors for the stories etc, you know how they work. We have everything perfectly described in terms of functions, sections and database features - we just need to get it "done".
Could two full-timers do it in a month? Anybody ever been involved in something like this (not necessarily developers) and could share some thoughts? How did it go? What problems did you encoutner.. etc
Thank you so much for any help you can give me. I'm about to jump on the biggest project of my life. If nothing else, wish me good luck!
- jox0
Geeze - one at a time!
- UndoUndo0
price is in the detail at our end, a project like that could be 4x a ball park figure
- ********0
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- madirish0
hey jox man,
i have been involved with several projects as you are describing. the most near what you are looking to do being not a 'news' site exactly, but a large-scale publishing site that projected news as it pertained to about 12 different categories for this client's interests. very intense and very detailed (what data types were involved where, ect.)
short answer (IMO) is 'yes'- this sort of site could certainly be developed and tested w/in a month's time between 2 dev's. that would not account for load testing and workflow procedures (if there are publishing permissions in place, ect) but the functional aspects and thier logic working as spec'd i think is very reasonable.
the longer answer to this is *absolutly* in the technical specificaltions documentation/outline w/ the correct tasks and needs detailed so these are not having to be redefined during the process. i would also highly recommend evaluating what pre-existing sysytems are available to build from and the modules availabel to 'plug-in' as it were, to possibly solve some of the custom content types and/or functionality you will require.
overall, the problems lay in clearly defining how functional elements need to be spec'd so all involved agree on them, and the communication w/ the producers of the display code to ensure these things 'feel' as the director wants them to.
HTH.
- jox0
madirish - thanks a TON for your valuable info! I just quoted it and sent it out to the others involved, hope you don't mind! I hadn't even thought of modifying an existing system - you don't happen to know of any good ones?
I've done some searches but all I seem to dig up are blog update forms and home made php scripts..
we're still in the very beginning of this project and we're trying to establish a time frame for this whole thing. apparently there are so many things i haven't even thought of yet! thanks again!
- madirish0
no sweat. email me if you want some more detailed leads/sources- i am happy to help NTers w/ this sort of thing. i know quite a bit about this area and have been the director/lead on several of these sorts of projects.
- jox0
excellent - i might hold you to that and shoot you an email by the end of the week when I've talked over the details a little more with my partners.
It's still rough sketching but the financial people we got interested wants to see some positive numbers before we get a go.Really appreciate this ^_^
- madirish0
not a problem at all. depending on your outlined needs and resources, there really are a lot of options you can build upon that are well established.