[wp-pro] blogger needed

[Dan Milward]

I was thinking about this earlier today when it came in. I was going to 
reply along the same lines but I'm pretty insanely busy....

Maybe people just don't appreciate how long these things can take - heck 
I remember writing an two page article a couple of months ago on 
blogging for a government agency and I can tell you that it took a heck 
of a lot longer then 4 hours. All sorts of research has to go into this 
kind of thing if you want a good end result.

But I also think it may be a side effect of open source projects. 
Because you give away something for free there is an unrealistic 
expectation that you should also provide free support as well.. it is 
madness I tell you. I have been abused, threatened and had all sorts of 
teh crazy experiences because I don't provide free support for our 
product. Lucky us Kiwis are tough (and lovely people too) :P

What did occur to me though was how cool it "could" be if there was a 
wiki somewhere with this kind of article floating around. Then lots of 
people could contribute 10 minutes here or 20 minutes there and in an 
open source fashion we could produce something pretty dang cool. Then 
again there is probably already something like this floating around in 
the WordPress docs anyway...

Ciao,

dan at instinct.co.nz


AMpro Design wrote:
> Anthony Brewitt wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I'm not one to moan about things and this is not just related to 
>> Wordpress but the entire industry but I cannot stand it when clients 
>> are arrogant enough to state;
>> *
>> "should only take 1 hour" or "this will only take 2-3 hours, 4 max" 
>> or "its just a quick job"*
>>
>> I know often people are just trying to get the biggest bang for their 
>> buck but I find this insulting to our profession.
>>
>> Regards, Anthony
>>
>> 2008/5/8 AMpro Design <info at amprodesign.com 
>> <mailto:info at amprodesign.com>>:
>>
>>     Hey I am looking for someone to do 1 fairly large blog article on
>>     wordpress as to how I setup www.fluideventscompany.com
>>     <http://www.fluideventscompany.com> in wordpress from start to
>>     finish. Starting from PSD, marking it up, installing WP, setting
>>     up the theme. Plugins etc etc
>>     I guess this will only take 2-3 max 4 hours to do. To be written
>>     in British English and unfortunately I needed this yesterday, so
>>     only those who can start right away please
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Andy McDonald
>>
>>     (Web Project Manager)
>>     AMpro Design
>>     www.amprodesign.com <http://www.amprodesign.com>
>>     0044-7841-238-191
>>
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>> -- 
>> Anthony Brewitt - www.freshcoatofpaint.co.uk 
>> <http://www.freshcoatofpaint.co.uk> 
> I am a web designer/developer and project manager for a web design 
> company. When I say it will take 2-4 hours you can trust that is what 
> It will take.
>
> -- 
> Andy McDonald
>
> (Web Project Manager)
> AMpro Design
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