Changing my website designer??
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Hi all,
I need a little help here. I have a website, I paid a friend to make it up (on a homer he does work for a web design firm) But I was wondering how I go about getting someone else involved to update it?? The site (on profile) was just a basic thing he created to get it running. And he asked me last year (Nov) to email him info i.e piccies and text to get it properly updated (which I did in Nov). Nothing has changed so I was wondering how I go about taking it from him and getting someone else to help me?? I understand people are busy but I spoke with him last week and he will have to "look out" the cd I gave him with the info.
As far as I am aware also it is not "hosted" so is not really "out there" getting benefits.
What should I do? Do I need to get info from him in order to get someone else to update and take over??
Avril
I need a little help here. I have a website, I paid a friend to make it up (on a homer he does work for a web design firm) But I was wondering how I go about getting someone else involved to update it?? The site (on profile) was just a basic thing he created to get it running. And he asked me last year (Nov) to email him info i.e piccies and text to get it properly updated (which I did in Nov). Nothing has changed so I was wondering how I go about taking it from him and getting someone else to help me?? I understand people are busy but I spoke with him last week and he will have to "look out" the cd I gave him with the info.
As far as I am aware also it is not "hosted" so is not really "out there" getting benefits.
What should I do? Do I need to get info from him in order to get someone else to update and take over??
Avril
It's not hosted as in it's not even currently on the internet? He just needs to bung it on a CD for you, along with any other artwork originals or text that might save your new person some time. You then give this CD to your new person, who can then rework/update it and arrange hosting for you.
As an aside, that's the problem with getting friends/family to do things like this - people get busy with other things and loose interest
Very common story.
As an aside, that's the problem with getting friends/family to do things like this - people get busy with other things and loose interest
Very common story.The complexities involved depend on the situation.
Are you hosting the site yourself or is he?
Who registered the domain you or he?
Who has the original site templates and such?
Now, the important bits are 1 & 2. If he's registered the domain for you and hosting it himself then you need to talk to him. If you're the one who's doing that then no worries.
Basically if your hosting it and you own the domain then look at BlairOut's website slurrping thread for advice on getting a copy of the site yourself. Hand that to another web dev and bingo.
Are you hosting the site yourself or is he?
Who registered the domain you or he?
Who has the original site templates and such?
Now, the important bits are 1 & 2. If he's registered the domain for you and hosting it himself then you need to talk to him. If you're the one who's doing that then no worries.
Basically if your hosting it and you own the domain then look at BlairOut's website slurrping thread for advice on getting a copy of the site yourself. Hand that to another web dev and bingo.
Aaah right. I know when it was set up it the domain name went into my name and I have the certs at home for this. As for hosting?? This must be his. Regardless it looks like I will have to have a "chat" with him to get the info back.
Many Thanks for your help. Might be worthwhile looking into some courses as I use computers everyday but get totally stuck with the jargon lol.
Many Thanks for your help. Might be worthwhile looking into some courses as I use computers everyday but get totally stuck with the jargon lol.
if u give the site out, we can take a look.
got a m8 in same situation, he needs to change the site, but has not got ftp acess and has to ask nicely for the webmaster to change stuff, only costs £25 per year or so - looking at nethosted, but sure the site that host PH can help u
keep copy on hard drive and i use netscape 7.1 composer with notepad - both free to use for making and editing sites
got a m8 in same situation, he needs to change the site, but has not got ftp acess and has to ask nicely for the webmaster to change stuff, only costs £25 per year or so - looking at nethosted, but sure the site that host PH can help u
keep copy on hard drive and i use netscape 7.1 composer with notepad - both free to use for making and editing sites
www.karrview.com also have the co.uk name aswell.
We offer free updates for life and free domain name renewals also. Subject to the site being linked to our hosting and subject to fair use policy. Fast affordable website design www.geminidigital.co.uk
Edited by jamesuk28 on Monday 23 April 09:04
Where cost is an issue (or even where it's not) - and where non-IT-savvy folk wish to have anything to do with website building - I could not recommend www.moonfruit.com too highly. Absolutely awesome and extremely amazing value-for-money.
An incredibly powerful and versatile drag-&-drop interface - utterly intuitive to use from outset - and with amazing results, quite often.
I don't get why they're not more popular than they are - even if it isn't actually 'programming'.
Just check out the kinds of sites people have built with it.
Hosting is included in the price (there is a free version - but with adverts) - and you can have Paypal shopping baskets & the like.
They must of course have their limitations - but many would not reach these.
An incredibly powerful and versatile drag-&-drop interface - utterly intuitive to use from outset - and with amazing results, quite often.
I don't get why they're not more popular than they are - even if it isn't actually 'programming'.
Just check out the kinds of sites people have built with it.
Hosting is included in the price (there is a free version - but with adverts) - and you can have Paypal shopping baskets & the like.
They must of course have their limitations - but many would not reach these.
Huge apologies for not replying sooner. I was on a course and had not internet access!!
Thank's for the replies there. I will be home next week and I will speak to the guy to see about getting my site material back (I'm not good at that type of thing, I prefer an easy life lol). And go from there.
Thank's for the replies there. I will be home next week and I will speak to the guy to see about getting my site material back (I'm not good at that type of thing, I prefer an easy life lol). And go from there.
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