<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Per hour... hehe.</div><div><br></div><div>We've been defining costs here, but what about the Drupal "EXPERT" term that's emphasized so strongly?</div><div><br></div><div>Hobbyist vs. <u>EXPERT</u></div><div><br></div><div>What if you're an <u>EXPERT</u> who also enjoys Drupal as a hobby too? And is an expert Developer defined by <a href="http://certifiedtorock.com/">http://certifiedtorock.com/</a> #11? Some clients probably care less if you contribute back to the Drupal community to achieve that rating.</div><div><br></div><div>So if an <u>EXPERT</u> (based in the USA/EU) would charge $300 per hour, could (or, <i>would</i>) they do this site in an hour? :-)</div><div>(No.)</div><div><br></div><div>You'd have to be an "<u>EXPERT</u>" charging $11/hour for ~27 hours of work to do this, I think...</div><div><br></div><div>On Aug 6, 2010, at 15:12 PM, John Saward wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good client. Clear communication. $300 per hour is possibly on the high side for the work. I'd bid $210 per hour and run away with it.<div><br><div><div>On 07/08/2010, at 5:57 AM, Jeff Greenberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="direction: ltr;" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; ">Received this request
for a bid today. Still chuckling.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; "><br>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; "><font face="verdana" size="1">You have been invited by the employer to participate in a
private auction. We would like to have an informational portal for all
of the roles in our company. The site will be made with the Drupal CMS
and therefore we require an <span style="text-decoration: underline;">EXPERT
</span>drupal developer. Please don't bid if youre only building
drupal websites as your hobby. You should be well familiar with content
types and views, users
integration in Drupal, advanced search and permission functions,
multilingual sites (including rtl languages)...We can say that we are
very strict with timelines and very clear with
requirements so please give us the right estimation from the beginning...<br>
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Max Bid:$300</font></div>
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