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Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by mdda »

Staydecent wrote: post #67
mdda wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you be cutting it up onto a 'backbone' of our choosing (like 960.gs or blueprint) ? (Obviously this will depend on the overall design, but hopefully the idea is clear).

I was just thinking of something similar; Would everyone want HTML5 elements or rather not? My thinking right now, is I would build an order form that has a few predefined options. I usually use my own CSS starting point but am familiar with 960.gs. Blueprint seems to be the other big one, so I could look into adding support for that. But mostly, the markup and css would adhere to my standards. I would have to do thi…

The benefit for a coder of having it built on blueprint is that it can be worked with immediately - otherwise one might as well be working with a template from a theme site with unknown/inconsistent markup.

Basing it off a well known framework should (a) make life easier for you, (b) give your work a hook other than low price-point.

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by balac »

crocowhile wrote: post #72
jonknee wrote: post #60

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That requires you to maintain a mail server of your own and everything that comes with that. I prefer to have pagers go off at Google's HQ instead of mine when something happens. What features are you using in Gmail that I'm not getting in Google Apps? I have priority inbox and all the latest Labs experiments. I haven't heard of anything I'm missing.

As I said, I closed down my google apps account a few months ago because things were missing or they arrived later compared to the regular gmail, so I don't know what you may be missing right now. Also, if you have an android phone you cannot buy apps if you sign in only with your apps account, you must use a regular account. That is a PITA, believe me.

You don't have to use your apps account only, you can still use your regular one for buying Android apps etc.

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by draebek »

wh-uws wrote: post #78
crocowhile wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is. I used that for several years. However I don't anymore because if you work alone or small groups I strongly suggest to use a regular gmail/google account and forward your @domain.com email there instead of using the gmail/app. Otherwise you will be always be running an outdated version of all gmail services and there is no real benefit really in having gmail handling your MX.

The second part of your answer isn't correct anymore. Google recently (about September) migrated all of the apps emails to the wider gmail infrastructure http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=182034

At least Buzz and Profiles are still not working for Google Apps users.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by Staydecent »

mdda wrote: post #81
Staydecent wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just thinking of something similar; Would everyone want HTML5 elements or rather not? My thinking right now, is I would build an order form that has a few predefined options. I usually use my own CSS starting point but am familiar with 960.gs. Blueprint seems to be the other big one, so I could look into adding support for that. But mostly, the markup and css would adhere to my standards. I would have to do thi…

The benefit for a coder of having it built on blueprint is that it can be worked with immediately - otherwise one might as well be working with a template from a theme site with unknown/inconsistent markup. Basing it off a well known framework should (a) make life easier for you, (b) give your work a hook other than low price-point.

Valid points. If there was interest in this I would offer the choice of Blueprint or 960.gs. As for HTML, I would use my starting template which resembles HTML5-Boilerplate and the choice of HTML5 elements(header, footer, article etc.) or not.

In theory, this would be a decent paying day-job. I spent the year of 2008 converting PSDs to WordPress themes for $500/theme. With that experience I can convert a PSD to markup in under an hour per page.

Re: Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

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Post by corin_ »

Staydecent wrote: post #58

I'm wondering, as I'm not making any money (devoting time to a startup idea) right now, if anyone would be interested in a similar service for the markup? I'm really quite good and would charge $15/page. I can offer impressive turn around times and even CMS(WordPress) integration for an additional flat-fee($250?).

Yes, definitely. If you offer it, I'll take you up on it once he's open for design applications again.
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