[consulting] Professionalism

[Zohar Stolar]

Sometimes "a template" is more than just doing some HTML. The task 
itself might include building the needed views, theme them, get some 
blocks in place, and theme them too, etc.

I don't know what's the template in question, and I also know that 33 
hours are a lot of time, but I also know that it's not always as easy as 
it seems in first look.



Fred Jones wrote:

> I work with someone on a Drupal 6 site and he hired a fancy NYC
> company (that charges well over $100 / hour) to do some more work on
> the site. The client asked me to write up a certain job and include
> some time estimates. Part of it is a custom node template, based on a
> PSD. The site template remains the same--this node template is just to
> customize the content section. OK, it may involve a *bit* of PHP for
> special fields, but it's still just a node template.
>
> I estimated 3 hours and the NYers 33 hours. They estimate over $3300
> to make one node template!
>
> I don't understand how they are able to have enough business and a
> good enough reputation to be charging high prices if they don't know
> what they're doing. Because they don't--33 hours for a node template
> is silly I think. The other programmer we use could do it in 3 hours I
> think (and he's less than $100). He's just busy...
>
> F
>
> PS: Thank you for listening to my rant. I feel better now. :)
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