For everyone that thinks no one is going to read the documentation so why bother. Please keep that attitude! I want your jobs. Several of my bigger clients came from them firing the idiots that were their then network administers because of lack of transparency in passwords and configuration information for the IT infrastructure.
Owners of businesses like to know that they can access their own infrastructure or get someone new to access it if the old IT guy gets run over in the street.
My computer company's standard policy is to compile a network diagram, list of all computers, servers, routers, network printers, time clocks, etc... with all user names and passwords as well as ipaddresses and ports needed to access admin and user configuration utilitys.
I have never lost a job or client by doing this. I have taken clients away from other computer companys and system admins by doing this.
im typing this on my xplore tablet pc. with a bluetooth usb connection to my sprint cell phone. internet practically anyhere. waterproof and mostly drop proof. magnesium case. 9400 mha battery gives me 5 hours of unconected use. with 2 of them i can go for most of a day of solid use.
price ouch!! start at about 2200 and go up from there.
but it is nice. i dont worry about breaking it much.
I get $120 an hour for basic website development. Always have as others have said milestones and an estimate of what the work will take. Be specific that you can do such and such in so many hours and that if any other features or changes are asked for that it is billable over the estimated amount of hours at the hourly rate.
Everything in minute detail in writing as to what is promised by you and expected by them.:) they will be happy with you and you will be happy with the job that way. If expectations are not set everyone will come away with a bad taste in their mouths nad most likely you won't get more work from them.
I used to resell hosting to clients and we would register their domains for them and point them at the webhosting servers that we were resellers for. About 79% of those domains we registered in our own names simply to make life easier on ourselves when it came time to pay the bills or make changes. Many of the customers we did this for had so little understanding of what was going on with dns vs hosting and the facts of owning a domain that it was just much simpler to do it this way.
However whenever a client asked about this or wanted to transfer to another webdeveloper or host we always facilitated this and transfered the domain to their name and worked with the other developer to transition stuff.
Reputation was everything in our business and we had a very reputable reputation:)
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What good is an unloaded gun? Might as well not have one or just get a baseball bat, it is a lot better tool for hitting someone than an unloaded gun.
For everyone that thinks no one is going to read the documentation so why bother. Please keep that attitude! I want your jobs. Several of my bigger clients came from them firing the idiots that were their then network administers because of lack of transparency in passwords and configuration information for the IT infrastructure.
Owners of businesses like to know that they can access their own infrastructure or get someone new to access it if the old IT guy gets run over in the street.
My computer company's standard policy is to compile a network diagram, list of all computers, servers, routers, network printers, time clocks, etc... with all user names and passwords as well as ipaddresses and ports needed to access admin and user configuration utilitys.
I have never lost a job or client by doing this. I have taken clients away from other computer companys and system admins by doing this.
im typing this on my xplore tablet pc. with a bluetooth usb connection to my sprint cell phone. internet practically anyhere.
waterproof and mostly drop proof. magnesium case. 9400 mha battery gives me 5 hours of unconected use.
with 2 of them i can go for most of a day of solid use.
price ouch!! start at about 2200 and go up from there.
but it is nice. i dont worry about breaking it much.
www.xplore.com
I'm incredulous....
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Considering tomatoes are subject to the virulant tobacco mosaic virus (TMV),
see following link
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/notes/oldnotes
I think that tomatoes would object to sex with tobbaco under these circumstances
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I get $120 an hour for basic website development. Always have as others have said milestones and an estimate of what the work will take. Be specific that you can do such and such in so many hours and that if any other features or changes are asked for that it is billable over the estimated amount of hours at the hourly rate.
:) they will be happy with you and you will be happy with the job that way. If expectations are not set everyone will come away with a bad taste in their mouths nad most likely you won't get more work from them.
Everything in minute detail in writing as to what is promised by you and expected by them.
Audeo
I used to resell hosting to clients and we would register their domains for them and point them at the webhosting servers that we were resellers for. About 79% of those domains we registered in our own names simply to make life easier on ourselves when it came time to pay the bills or make changes. Many of the customers we did this for had so little understanding of what was going on with dns vs hosting and the facts of owning a domain that it was just much simpler to do it this way.
:)
However whenever a client asked about this or wanted to transfer to another webdeveloper or host we always facilitated this and transfered the domain to their name and worked with the other developer to transition stuff.
Reputation was everything in our business and we had a very reputable reputation