Comments on: Can’t code, won’t code, DONT CODE!

By: Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Finding a reliable coder

Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » Finding a reliable coder — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:23:08 +0000

[...] used freelance websites which can be fine for what they are but after a while of developing if you cannot code then you really need to have someone you can quickly ask questions of, someone to make small [...]

By: Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » $2000 a month for 5 minutes work & $40

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:36:18 +0000

[...] some reason it took me weeks, nae months to finally look at putting it into action as I am not a coder. I went to the support forum for the shopping cart I use and sent an email to someone who obviously [...]

By: Al

Al — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:57:22 +0000

Companies are generally happy for the publicity so don’t mind the images being used, if you ask them they;ll often send you high def or different images also.

By: Iain

Iain — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:30:41 +0000

What about images of cool gadgets on the cool gadgets blog?

Ever been in trouble for those, or are the companies all happy for their product images to whizz around the globe?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:57:41 +0000

Good article.

The copyright issue has haunted me ever since I got marked down heavily for posting MP3s on a high school personal web page project!

And you’re right about coding – so many people who graduated from my IT course were trial and error coders (including me!). One huge early mistake was launching a client’s website with a broken Flash menu. whoops.

All these mistakes are definitely necessary though to help keep improving

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:03:45 +0000

Hmm databases, I left that one out Ash, that’s another story altogether.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:13:30 +0000

I’ve had a couple of hiccups!

Lesson 1 – Backup, especially before dabbling with coding!

Lesson 2 – Get a reliable host, i had a host pull a site and never even told me, did not offer an explanation and would’nt give me a copy of the latest backup.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:06:11 +0000

Thank God someone’s writing about why people shouldn’t code (rather than How You Can Make Your Own Content Management System With PHP).

While it’s not my personal experience, amateur-coded websites are a terrible idea. From the ugliness of the FrontPage sites that abounded before the days of blogs, to the million and one “user logins” with security holes, it is just plain worthwhile to have an actual coder do a decent job.

It is fortunate that the rise of WordPress, MySpace and friends have encouraged people to use these applications that are built by programmers, rather than cobbling together their own attempt.

Furthermore, coders wanting to work on your projects are everywhere. But how do you find reliable ones?

By: Al

Al — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:42:54 +0000

I’ve done that too, one of my writers used a copyrighted image and for some daft reason removed the copyright from the image, it never cost me money but I got slagged off all over the place.

I’ve also made my fair share of coding errors, one classic being when I wrote software to decode the value of cheques (checks) I managed to decode a 100,000.00 euro cheque as 10 million which the tax payer wasn’t very happy about

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:53:44 +0000

Ouch! yep I was obviously dumb and lucky to just get a cease/desist, using one image is so easy to do but with expensive consequences, a good warning to others though.