PHP Question
 

I have a PHP question.

I paid a guy to do a web site in PHP and he got it 1/2 done and disappeared on me. The site was OK, but I couldn't edit anything. On each page there were small pictures with descriptive text next to the picture. The text was 10 point black Arial. There was no way to change color, size or font. Also you couldn't have paragraph breaks. Reminds me of an old database memo field.

I know have a guy writing the site in WordPress an assures me I can have all I desire in the text.

At some later date when the site is generating revenue I want to go back to PHP. However the new guy knows nothing of PHP. Can PHP do it all? Was the guy I hired not that good at PHP or am I stuck with boring descriptions?

Thanks for any answers

Wordpress is PHP :)

You can add a CSS to it, and change the PHP output to use the CSS -- that way, you can have any look you want.

Doesn't sound like you know enough to own a web site.

DerpPress is PHP nub.

Original site
 

The original had CSS.

If the CSS and PHP were done correctly, you would have been able to edit it without an issue. My guess is that you hired based on price, and got a lackluster coder who abandoned you. Happens all the time, sadly. Sounds like the new guy is fucking it up as well. :2 cents:

Sorry to hear it!

Really? I mean Really?????

How the hell did you do manage to make those sites for Marion?

:helpme

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If the new guy doesn't know php the I don't know what the heck is he doing cause wordpress is php... He is probably just installing a template and plugins that will somehat let you do what you want (something you can do on your own if you know a thing or two about running websites)

It seems to me that you don't know enough about websites to hire a coder directly, you need to know some basic stuff about it in order to give proper instructions, be able to choose a coder wisely and know if they do the job as they are supposed to or not :2 cents:

The best way to get a good coder is to ask for a programmer.
Nobody has a degree in coding.

Actually...i have it :1orglaugh

hire good coder . and wp is made of php.

This and this

I don't like wordpress, but that's just me. Any coder will tell you the best approach in order to change fonts and colors is CSS, anyone telling you differently is clearly not the right person for the job.

Way back when
7/17/2013
12/8/2014
So. let's see, way back when like 2010 you had already done sites for Sally.

Then in 2012, you come on taklking about a site that has been in development for 2 years (so 2010) that you were having issues with regarding programmers, etc.

2013, you are talking about the same site, same issues.

2014, again, the same thing.

You haven't learned what PHP or CSS is in those 4 years? But you have the absolute gall to say something like this about someone else?

5/2/2012
Oh, btw, MS Access uses SQL throughout. The most typical way to access an Access database from a site or application would probably be by utilizing SQL pass through. Just thought I would throw that in there.

So, how does it feel to drive for 4 years and go absolutely no where?

One more thing there Sunny Gene..

The site you have been working so hard to build for 4 years is called CraigsList :thumbsup

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So true.. there's always two sides to a story..

Some people just don't have the budget for a good developer (that's how coders/programmers are called these days) and end up working with terrible 'coders'.

Other times the clients aren't able to make proper requirements, or keep changing them.. Generating irritation with the developer, causing him to run away :1orglaugh

My tips for making your project a succesful one;

- Have a proper budget. 50 USD/hour is way too cheap for a good developer
- Create a functional design, mockup or wireframe.. plenty of tools out there, you don't need to be a tech to do that
- Select your developer not only on technical skills, but also make sure he understands your business and is able to communicate about what he will do for you in a way you understand
- Let him create a technical design from your mockup. Compare the two, discus about it, ask him for suggestions or improvements.. get him involved
- When agreement has been reached approve the designs and don't make any changes

Those are all probably good point however in this case they are really not applicable.

At one point I was going to help the OP. Had several conversations with him back during the whole Sally Rand fiasco. I ended up rescinding the offer. It was very apparent from the start that any project with him was going to be a death march and I don't do death marches.

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I imagine that this post will now sink quickly and disappear, like Sunny Day hopes it will. :1orglaugh

Ok, who is Sunny Day? I thought he was Marion a.k.a. Sally Rand the crossdressing freak?

:winkwink::winkwink::winkwink:

ouch ...

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CheckMate .

oh shit she's got the dates and shit