On Nov 10, 2006, at 4:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


     Hi there. I hope this isn't a completely off-the-wall question.
     I'm the editor of a small alt-weekly newspaper with a hideous web
site. We want to re-do it in Django, to snap up the presentation and
also add some new features that will move us at least slightly into the
21st century.
     How much should we expect to pay a contractor for something like
that?


I think you'll find that the cost will depend a great deal on the developer... you might be able to find a good Django developer here:


If you don't mind me offering you some advice, a common misconception is that you can hire a web developer to work on your project for a couple of weeks, get some code, pay the bill and then you're done. In truth, your site will be "done" when you're ready to replace it again in a couple of years. If you're building this for a newspaper, and you're inspired by lawrence.com, you may actually be looking for an employee rather than a contractor.
Another common pitfall is the I-need-that-that-that-and-oh-yeah-also-design-I-guess approach. You can definitely find engineers who will happily tout their design skills and designers who've learned enough engineering to get a web site up, but it's actually pretty rare to find people who are really good at both. Think about getting professional design work from a design freelancer or agency. Bad design can make a waste of your good engineering and vice-versa.
Anyway, HTH.

--P


PS: IOW, double your budget and add a zero. :)



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Paul Smith




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