I would suggest that you let the professional take the lead on coding - that means that he should probably assign the bits that you do, and control the technical aspects of the design. Hopefully you have project management experience, and can handle that side, and you should keep track of the features that you want - both to make sure there isn't feature creep, and to be ready to decide what to let go if this goes slower than planned (as it will - it always does without a well-functioning team familiar with every step of what they are doing).
And don't be surprised if you find the coding hard. Coding is hard - much harder than the activities of most other professions. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:40, Michael A <anu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Django community, > > I'm excited to develop my first site in Django and am trying > understand the best way to approach things. I don't have a strong > coding background, but I'm comfortable with the tutorial, ~3 hours of > screencasts, and "Beginning Django E-Commerce" by James McGaw. > > Designed the database and coded the model layer myself... hiring a > designer for the front-end work, and hiring a django developer to co- > develop via github. Worked out the development roadmap and features > needed for launch (below). > > My goal is to develop 30-50% myself with feedback/review from the > professional, with them coding the rest and me learning from their > code. Has anyone tried something similar before? Any concerns or > advice on partnering effectively? > > Our feature list is below, with hourly estimates from the developer. > I've starred those I'm aspiring to code myself. > Also interested in whether we can leverage existing code/libraries to > solve some of these challenges. Thanks!! > > * - Account Sign-Up with Lost Password - 15 hours > * - Admin Tool: User Manager - 30 hours > Admin Tool: Managing PDF Content - 30 hours > Community Forums - 45 hours > FAQ/Help Center Module - 35 hours > Single Item Purchase - 15 hours > Digital Asset Delivery - 30 hours > * - Customer Internal: Simple Account Management (password, email) - 5 > hours > Customer Internal: User Dashboard - 10 hours > * - Customer Internal: Contact Form - 3 hours > * - System Generated Emails - 15 hours > Data Export Tools (Customer Data) - 12 hours > Secure Storage/Delivery of PDFs - 5 hours > Page/Form Builds - 20 hours > U/X Development - 25 hours > Slice Art / Build Templates - 25 hours > > Appreciate any advice you may have on how to approach this project > effectively! > > Cheers from Tokyo, > > -Michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Marcin Tustin Tel: 07773 787 105 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
