Know anyone interested in a website?

[SlimKlim]

Okay, so as many of you know, I picked myself up a hell of a deal on a '90 Miata, which I plan to use as a mostly track/autox toy. You can read all about its saga here, http://www.mmsports.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9922. My ideal goal is to have the car "prepared" for the track by the beginning of next season, around March. I have a project list as long as my arm, and a shopping list even longer.

As many alumni know, and current students will soon find out, money isn't *that* much easier to come by when you've got to pay rent and a million friggin bills every month. I'm scraping together as much as I can, but doing the math, it just isn't going to cut it. So now I'm looking for projects on the side to supplement my income, to save exclusively for building the car. Anyway, that's my sob story, let me get down to the important stuff.

I graduated with a degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communcations: Online Publications, which is academic gibberish for web design and development. My skill set sits more on the user experience, design and content side of things, as opposed to the nuts and bolts coding. At work I manage a large, multi-platform knowledge management system, and I also develop requirements for new web-based systems. On the side, I really enjoy developing sites for small businesses and individuals. Check out my portfolio here, http://jklimchuk.net/. If you'd like you can see the latest project I did for a non-profit charity here, http://test.jklimchuk.net/, BUT you have to promise to remember it's still in a pre-launch phase, so not all things are functioning properly, and don't look at it in IE (or anything in IE for that matter), I still need to resolve the cross-browser issues.

I build all of my sites in WordPress, which provides a framework for much more dynamic content, and gives the owner the ability to personally log in to update and manage content without an ounce of web experience. If they can make a post on Facebook, then they are more than qualified to manage their own site. The biggest benefit of this to the site owner, is being able to make frequent updates without paying some snot-nosed developer (me) a monthly fee to do it for them. Because I'm not a professional web design firm, I can't promise to increase traffic by X% or bring back X% percent in additional revenue. However, I'm not going to charge them $4500 for a 10 page site.

What I can do is give them a current, modern, attractive and inviting website, that will give online visitors the same professional experience when walking through the front door of their shop or restaurant. In today's world of smartphones and tablets, people don't leave the house without googling where they are going first, and having a great website is how to get their foot in the door so to speak.

I can't really say how much I charge, because it's different for each and every project. The number of pages, functionality, amount of content, whether or not the content needs to be redeveloped and the cost themes/plug-ins/stock media are just some of the factors. I can say it'll be more than $1, and less than $2000, probably somewhere in the middle third for projects I'd be interested in. There is usually some sticker shock for people outside the web industry, but if you take a look here, http://blog.folyo.me/post/10723370923/ho...bsite-cost, you'll see that I'm really on the bottom end of the industry average (especially because we're talking about a living breathing site, not a non functional design). I believe I charge fairly for my experience level, my goal is to provide people with an excellent, affordable product that I get good experience out of and ultimately, monies so I can be a regular installation in the paddock next year.

If you know anyone that might be interested, I'd love to talk to them and learn what their needs are, and see if I can provide the product they want.

[Ken]

Reach out to that guy i brought to you when we were at school, worth a shot.

I feel ya on the expenses thing, i've been looking at possibly delivering again or something. Student loans coming real soon are gonna suck balls.

[SlimKlim]

Reach out to that guy i brought to you when we were at school, worth a shot.

I feel ya on the expenses thing, i've been looking at possibly delivering again or something. Student loans coming real soon are gonna suck balls.

I vaguely remember that at the end of the year, do you remember his name/company? Maybe I can turn it up in my school email box.

I've thought about delivering or getting a second job too. The only thing that's keeping me from doing it is just how much the hours would suck. Even two nights a week, working until 11 or 12 and getting up at 7 to go to work would just suck. I'm not entirely ruling it out though. I have a co-worker with 3 BMWs that wants to make me his personal mechanic, so that should be good for a little, even if its not much. Another thing I was thinking about was detailing co-workers cars, I can do it well and fast because I did it at Martin's, and people are usually willing to pay pretty well for a good detail.

We'll see, one way or another I'm going to be on track with a sorted out car by next spring, just not sure exactly how yet.

[Ken]

I'll have to look it up, i'll let you know.

Yeah I made it official a little after this and asked a friend who still works at the gym i used to work at. Trying to see if i can secure a couple hours on the weekend or what not.