Several colleagues are having success outsourcing their website design and build to India and other cheaper locations. I.e., where for < $500 you can get a designer, coder and apache/similar guru for a week to put together a 10-20 page site that looks great and works well.
I currently manage 3 non-profit sites built with Drupal (with another couple on the way). Unfortunately I don't have the time or design skills to do a really nice template (currently using a hacked polder, e.g. www.socalfreenet.org).
Does anyone know of an Indian (or similarly priced) company that specializes in Drupal template development? Or perhaps one that would like to learn more about it?
Btw, I intend to re-release back to the community whatever templates I end up paying for.
thx, michael
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not only indian outsource
i`ve done 2 (3 with mine) sites on drupal with hacked and redesigned "interlaced".
So we can talk about your suggestion by @
arsart_at_designcollector.ru
Elance
Elance is swarming with people who will do what you need, and it doesn't cost anything to post your project.
http://www.elance.com
- Robert Douglass
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thanx. ill check this site
thanx. ill check this site
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DesignCollector
funny
:) It feels weird to see your own country's name being used as a synonym for "cheap labour". I know you didn't mean to offend, but I think it's a good idea not to generalize and name countries like this.
no offense meant
Certainly I wasn't trying to cause offense, nor do I want to trigger a long and potentially acrimoneous (sp?) thread, but I'm genuinely intrigued (and somewhat clueless) as to why 'cheap labour' would be offensive - without any implication that cheap means substandard.
I've worked with many engineers from many countries around the world (although living in USA currently, I'm not from here originally) and I'm amazed and excited that it is now relatively simple to have work with such a high intellectual and skill content done from anywhere in the world.
I would certainly have preferred to stay in my home country, and made a good living doing there what I do here. I may have been payed less in US$ terms, but I would have had the same (or better!) standard of living - which at the end of the day is what matters. I like to think I would have welcomed the term cheap labour - if it got me more work!
Its sad for USA CS graduates, but true, that there are plenty of smart people elsewhere in the world with skills who can work for far less. However its great for the non-profit orgs I work with who can't afford the work any other way.
All this aside, even though I think its awesome that many of the *really smart and highly educated* Indians I've worked with in the past around the world can do that same work from home, you're completely correct, I could have been (and will be!) more sensitive in future and not name countries. Thanks for your gentle reminder.
Think global, act LOCAL.
Bro. You're a grass-roots southern californian users group, and you want to ship your work overseas.
That's totally un-necessary. I'll skip the politics.
You will find no shortage of inexpensive PHP contractors around southern california. Go to www.web405.org, join the mailing list, and ask around.
You will not get a three-person team to develop a 20 page site for $500, not in Banglore, or anywhere. If by some chance you DO, I'd really like to hear about it and see the results. ;-)
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Right on the mark, Benjamin. In the end, you get what you pay for. I'm currently working with a Eastern European company from a country that is considered in many Wetern European countries to be a source of cheap labor. They did offer me a great price, but then I had to go and show them how to use css to do a table-less layout. In the end, it is worth paying for quality, no matter where it comes from, and quality developers get paid more, no matter where they pay rent.
- Robert Douglass
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visit me at www.robshouse.net
Thanks for the pointer...
Thanks for the pointer. Believe me, I have no agenda for where it gets done. If we can go local, even better - saves some of the hassles of off-shoring.
Btw, this thread on the IP list has some interesting perspectives (including some specific descriptions of jobs and costs). Try these search results for more on this topic.
My personal experience suggests its not possible either, but apparently others have done so and so it bears exploring.
india
i recently bid a project to a company in india and am about a third through it. i didn't go with the highest bidder who came in over $5,000 but am now wishing i had. i chose the group that seemed to have the most relevant previous experience but am having to do close supervision by my inhouse technical staff... sometimes i think i'm dealing with high schoolers over there. my mind is still not made up though on the merits though...
i do feel like the money i put into drupal programming here in the states doesn't go far enough. there is a lot of work i'd like to do but feel i can't afford...