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READ THIS FIRST:Recommendations for hiring a Drupal site developer
Amazon - November 17, 2007 - 09:59
There is a good handbook page dedicated to this topic you should read before posting a job in this forum.
HOWTO: Hire a Drupal site developer
Your posting should also include which parts of your project the developers will be allowed to contribute back to the Drupal project. Projects which allow the developer to contribute back to the community are preferred.
If you would like to speak to someone right now, please get an IRC client and join irc.freenode.net server, and join #drupal-consultants. There are consultants in that public channel 24/7.
Themes vs Sites
One of the most common issues I've come across with people looking to hire a Drupal developer is the difference between having a theme made and having a complete site built. If you're not sure what the difference is, you're probably looking for the second.
In general, a theme doesn't add any special functionality to Drupal, it just changes how it looks. If you need features that don't come standard with Drupal (news letters, WYSIWYG editing, node types other than story/blog/page, an image gallery, a "most viewed stories" block, anything like that), you need more than just a theme, you need a full site. Unless you plan to install and configure modules yourself, make sure you work out all the details before settling on a price.
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I have also faced a problem
I have also faced a problem regarding theme development or full site development from a client. He posted for theme development but later i realize that he was having full site development consideration in his mind. That was horrible experience. Thanks for your post now. At least we can give a reference to this thread if there is any controversy.
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Theme/site
Absolutely right, but often clients are not the most CMS/Web savvy to understand the difference between themes and sites. They see a well-designed theme on someone's CMS site, and they want "something like it", or something "along those lines", thinking it may be a relatively simple copy and paste operation. Properly informing the clients in advance or explaining it on the web designer's business site may help avoid confusion.
How about a section here in
How about a section here in the forum, where developer can show case some themes, and sell them. I know , we have a section to showcase our theme, but how about selling theme in one seperate section.
One more idea to promote more free drupal theme..........
We should have a section where people can showcase new theme design and ask for sponcers of the theme. The sponcers link will be placed at footer of theme.
http://www.techhunt.org || Free Drupal Themes
Selling themes on drupal.org
Selling themes on Drupal.org may not reflect best on the community spirit. I believe there should be a clear distinction between community showcase and business. The same goes for showcasing sponsors.
Recommended Checklist
In a vast pool of service firms and freelancers, here are few questions you may ask.
- speak with the provider on phone. Rather then Skype or chat, better to speak at least once to them via phone.
- ask for their code contributions (i.e whether they contributed any modules). If you are non-techie or cannot evaluate code, you may try and check out the contributed module and issue queue for that module. Also try and see if the module has been kept current and there is an effort to fix the issues.
- ask for URLs to live working sites
- ask for references with whom you can speak
- Talk to the developer who will work on the project
- Ask for photo / video on their infrastructure
- Find out about their internet connectivity. You don't want excuses that the Internet went down.
- Do they have weekly updates, conferences, present detailed time sheets?
- What is their employee retention ratio?
- What is their client retention ratio?
For high traffic sites:
- Ask what kind of support options they have once site is put in production
- Ask whether they have 24x7 Infrastructure monitoring services and admins inhouse? How to they handle emergencies?
- Ask whether they have experience in hardware sizing, LAMP stack tuning as well as inhouse performance optimization expertise?
Roshan