[support] Domain Access

[Don]

  lol, thanks Shai. You bring up a good point with the issues.

My formula for estimates (since all programmers are optimists) is raise 
the units one and multiply by .5.
So 2 weeks becomes 1 month, 2 months becomes 1 quarter, etc.. It 
actually works for me.

-Don-

On 10/7/2010 4:26 PM, Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> I think your big gotcha here is the fixed price.
>
> I don't have experience with Domain Access. But I would assume 
> problems. Not because it's a bad module. It looks extremely well 
> supported. But its complicated. 1400+ issues in the queue. And it 
> sounds like you'll be working on someone else's server... and the 
> implementation looks like it will certainly involve fussing with some 
> server settings.
>
> I would make your best guess on how much time it would take you... 
> then multiply that by 10 for the estimate. Then offer the client "time 
> and materials" as an alternative to your fixed price.
>
> I know you were looking for someone who had actually used the module 
> to respond... but I couldn't stop myself :)
>
> Shai
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Don <donald at fane.com 
> <mailto:donald at fane.com>> wrote:
>
>      I have a customer with a primary site and multiple micro-sites. These
>     sites have a lot of redundant information in them, like blocks and
>     pages
>     about the company or contact information.
>
>     My customer would like to be able to edit the common content once
>     but be
>     able to add unique pages, menus, views, themes, etc.. to each
>     micro-site.
>     I'm looking at the Domain Access module and it looks like it does
>     everything my customer wants. I can't test it on my current hosting
>     provider and my estimate will lock us into a final price.
>
>     Does anyone have experience with this module? Will it do the subset of
>     shared nodes? Any gotcha's I should know about?
>
>     I'm looking at using Drupal 6 and MySQL btw.
>
>     Thanks.
>     -Don-
>
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