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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">First, apologies if this has already been received</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">…</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Had a bit of an issue with the mailing-list signup and didn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t know whether my first copy got through or not.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have been working for an existing client of mine for a few years, doing various minor in-house .NET developments, and they have asked if I know of someone who can help with their website</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(s)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I’m more of a server-side coder / database consultant</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">and website-development isn’t really my thing, but I said I’d try and help them out.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I was at one of Guy Smith Ferrier’s talks the other day at the NextGen User-Group in Oxford, and he suggested that I get in touch with LRUG (either in person, or via the mailing-list)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">--</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The client is a London-based Skiing/Winter-Sports Travel Agent (based about 10 minutes walk from Clapham Junction)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">They’ve previously worked with a small design-agency who re-designed their site (past couple of years) into Ruby-on-Rails + MySql, but their main developer has now moved to the US and is now involved in other projects.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">They don’t have an in-house IT team / developer / designer, and (my impression was that) they don’t have any immediate intentions to employ someone in-house for that role.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">So, they’re now looking for someone (person or company) that they can work with (and who understands their current systems) </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">If this was a completely new project, I would probably suggest something like ASP.NET MVC…. However, having looked at the current code, my gut feel (as an experienced software-developer but complete ruby novice) is that it has already been fairly well-written in Ruby, and it makes sense to keep it that way.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">…</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Now for a few details:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Ruby-on-Rails + MySQL (I don’t know the exact versions)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Primarily a data-driven “brochure-ware” site (no shopping-cart / etc)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Site also contains a wordpress-blog</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (again, don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t know the exact version)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Currently hosted on a “shared co-located site belonging to the previous developer”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">What are they looking for:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Someone (or a smallish web-design company) they can work with (and/or outsource to) on an ongoing basis (probably just small ad-hoc work and mini-projects rather than a full-time position or contract-work)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Recommendations of a new hosting provider (or other options) and someone who could help with the install / transfer</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Some “small changes/improvements” to the existing site</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">SEO advice / recommendations.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Building of a second “luxury-only chalets” site (that would operate in a “similar” manner (and perhaps share some of the code-base) to the current-site)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">There would also seem to be scope for a very small in-house intranet site to replace a legacy database, but I think that’s still a low-priority task and possibly one for 2013</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">--</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I’m not</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">really</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">looking to sub-contract here or charge an on-going percentage</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">-overhead</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">…. (Just to still remain retain them as a client as an IT-consultant + in-house developer and/or still provide them with a “second-opinion” in places)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So, the main question is (are)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Is anyone interested ?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Or: (Can anyone recommend someone who might be interested)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">If so, please drop me an email.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thanks in advance</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Steven Wilmot</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Data Utilities Ltd</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(SQL Consultancy and .NET System-Developer)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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