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Originally Posted by Hitch
I was kidding you, of course. I don't expect folks to work for free.
One of the big kvetches I have, over at my biz, is that trying to find reliable website folks--builders, maintainers, etc., --is like pulling hen's teeth. I don't understand WHY it is that way, but it is. I've been through, I dunno, 6? Six different people, all of whom claimed to be hard working, timely, etc., and they never are? WHY is it so hard to find reliable (and affordable) web folks? Especially in what are essentially plug-n-play systems, like Joomla, Wordpress, etc.? (I understood my problem a lot better about 7-8 years ago when I'd written my own site using ExpressionEngine. I probably deserved to overpay, at that point. But I have bloody Joomla now. Why such a hassle?)
My current guy will respond quickly--but never reads what I give him, fully, so he skims over things where I've done the research, say, and tell him "use this feed to get that XML to do this other thing," and then he builds the whole bloody mess himself--and expects me to pay for the work he did because he was too lazy to read my entire set of instructions to him.
(sigh). It's never-ending.
Hitch
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You've just summed up my over 15 years of professionally dealing with web developers. Especially when getting them to work on Joomla! or Wordpress (or, in one
hideous case, Drupal). And whatever they do, it's not documented or fully checked for security, so when you get someone else to do something they "can't possibly use the previous work" because...reasons. Sigh.
So, now, if what I need can't be done "out of the box" or using a module or plugin (that has been updated in the last three months), I don't use it.