• Html and PHP coder needed.
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I'm starting a community service organization with some friends which involves creating an order form on our site. We already made a rough draft using html and php to make it but there are some things that need to be added. It is for community service so I will not pay the coder, but I will contribute some money to the organization the coder wants to donate to. We will need to have the order form finished within two weeks and if you are skilled at html and php, i don't think it'll take more than 3 hours. We will need to stay in close touch with the coder for the two weeks and weeks to follow if we wan't to revise anything. If anybody is interested in this please let me know.
developers don't work for free
Good job getting anybody that will work for free and then trying to justify it by saying it's "community service".
I can understand doing pro-bono, or down-right free work. I've done it a couple of times (family hospital and a school), but I've heard that same story far too many times to go along with it again. You start off with the usual [B]"hey, this is free work, so we will not pay you, but we'll still give the money you'd get to someone else maybe or something quite probably not"[/B], followed by one of the most ignorant things you can say when looking to hire a developer: [B]"I have absolutely no idea about what you do, but I've arbitrarily decided it shouldn't take you more than 3 hours, so it's cool, not like you had any plans, and 3 hours of your time aren't too valuable anyway"[/B], and then, to top it all off, you want said developer to stay on call, unpaid, for the[B] "two weeks and weeks to follow"[/B] - anywhere between two weeks and [B][URL="http://winandwinnow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/OH-NO-300x300.jpg"]ALL OF ETERNITY[/URL][/B] - which from my experience means you'll be calling or emailing me at 2 in the morning because you want to put a facebook button as the page's background and a flashing marquee across the top inviting everyone to click your google ads, and then as soon as I know it you're asking me to design flyers, fix your printer, paint your house, pick up your dog's shit from the sidewalk and babysit your incontinent mother. It's not so much that you're asking for free work - like I said, I've done it before, and I'm all for helping out with a good cause - it's the total lack of respect for the persons on the other end of that absolutely ridiculous and poorly worded request. [editline]8th September 2011[/editline] save me zoidberg :zoid:
Do you think we're all worker ants ready to be enslaved? You've come to the wrong place.
[QUOTE=oakwalk1310;32180999]I'm starting a community service organization with some friends which involves creating an order form on our site. We already made a rough draft using html and php to make it but there are some things that need to be added. It is for community service so I will not pay the coder, but I will contribute some money to the organization the coder wants to donate to. We will need to have the order form finished within two weeks and if you are skilled at html and php, i don't think it'll take more than 3 hours. We will need to stay in close touch with the coder for the two weeks and weeks to follow if we wan't to revise anything. If anybody is interested in this please let me know.[/QUOTE] Seriously? Do you have any respect for our skills? Piss off.
So, just to clarify if you haven't already gathered: You're approaching this in the complete wrong way. Try elsewhere.
LOL work for free, good one
Hey why don't you send us a link to that "rough draft"? If there are just "some things that need to be added" then it must be nearly done, right?
I guess i could.
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