[consulting] Professionalism

[Cameron Eagans]

That may be the case, but 'a node template' is an entirely different
story, and a node template that takes more than ~5 hours is pretty
extensive and should probably be split into it's own theme. There's no
way a node template should take that long.
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Cameron Eagans
Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
http://www.blackstormsstudios.com



On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Zohar Stolar <zohar at linnovate.net> wrote:
> 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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