Larry, thank you for lengthy answer. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/15 Larry Garfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com">larry@garfieldtech.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Saturday, August 14, 2010 05:19:30 pm Alexei Malinovski wrote:</div></blockquote><div> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
If you're doing mostly click-together sites, that's less of an issue.<br></blockquote><div><br>What is "click-together sites" ? <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> The ugly truth is that many people in showbiz are absolutely non technical.<br>
> They are clewer, creative, nice, talkative but not technical. So, if I do<br>
> the web site I make sure that it runs somwhere. The funny thing is that<br>
> they even allow me to own they domain names. In other words they do not<br>
> realise that they can and *SHOULD* own the domain name!!!<br>
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</div>As a consultant, part of your job is to educate the client to the extent they<br>
need to be educated. They don't need to be super technical, but explaining<br>
what they get, and what the trade-offs are, is part of your job.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree. My sister was in the situation when her old site domain was owned by her previous producer company. Even though she had a good relationship with producer and his company she could not get ownership of web site name. Basically we needed to start from scratch. Register another name and promote it. I agree that if you explain domain ownership issue to potential customer it will help to build trust.<br>
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If you have a support contract with them, it is actually often easier for you<br>
to own the domain name and hosting account so that you can deal with the web<br>
host directly without going through them.<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree. If maintenance is on my shoulders that should be the case. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> > Most of this work is not very profitable, avoid if possible... If you<br>
> > have to do it, make sure it's in the contract.<br>
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> Most probably I have to do hosting and site maintenance to be a one stop<br>
> shop for showbiz people.<br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
</div>"Host and support a site built by someone else" is one of Acquia's main<br>
business channels. They may be out of the price range for your clients, but<br>
it's worth considering. Acquia's Gardens project is also targeted at rapid<br>
creation of reasonably conventional sites (I won't say cookie cutter, but<br>
less-than-fully-customized) that are hosted on their heavily-tuned<br>
infrastructure. Both are definitely worth looking into.<br></blockquote><div><br>Thank you for suggestion! I will look into that. Though, I'm not sure that those guys speak Russian :)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">I guess this is a bad idea to host different<br>
> > > Customers on the same account?<br><br></div>
2) Offering rapid-spin-up cookie cutter sites. There is a market for that,<br>
especially for artist websites where, realistically, they all want more or<br>
less the same thing just skinned uniquely and with different content. Whether<br>
or not that's a market you want to pursue is your call.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>I might be in that niche since musician web sites usually has the same functionality and just look differently. <br><br>BTW, do anyone see any problem to make sites without the contracts at all? I understand monetary issue - if there is not contract noone will force Customer to pay you money for the work. Any other problems with such approach? </div>
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