Attn the web monkeys

http://www.mxzambrana.com

A mate of mine wot owns a local bar, works at a local bike shop in the
day. Their web monkey fucked off and the site needs updating and
maintaining. He said to his boss "I know a bloke who knows computer
stuff. He'll be able to do it for sure." He unfortunately meant me. I
know nothing of that sort of shite.

The question is; is the site any good? Is it maintainable? Could one of
you lot do it, and I'll translate where necessary? Or is this stuff such
a piece of piss that even I could do it?

Needless to say, I doubt they'll want to pay much. However, I might get
a few beers out of it, and I'm sure that applies to anyone that helps,
if they were to pop out here for a few days.

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

Looks basic enough to be able to upkeep with MS FrontPage or Dreamweaver

 

It's crying out for a simple CMS solution - although they might be creating
the HTML automatically on the client-side and uploading it occasionally,

WTF would anyone help a commercial outfit with their commercial website for
reward? It's insulting.

Ignoring the website for a moment, would they sell me a bike at cost-price +
a few beers, just because I know you?

I'd charge about £1500 to rebuild that site as a bespoke CMS. About the
same amount as they earn from selling a couple of dirt-bikes, I should
imagine.

 

duh - "for *no* reward"

 

sorby wrote

It was actually fine as it was. Really.

 

A quick look at the source suggests to me it's being generated by some
sort of cms. The formatting of the source gives it away.

 

Ok. You've made your point. Although I don't know what a CMS is.

The shop is a little outfit that probably doesn't benefit much from
having a website, other than "every business has to have one". I think
someone built the site whilst building up his business as a designer,
and has since made the big time and is no longer interested in the
piddly small scale (ie; not much dosh) jobs.

I think my question is "is it likely that with a bit of reading up, I
would be able to update it?" (I ain't tick, but I've never created a web
site in my life). If not, then I would want a price from someone like
yourself to update it, with presumably a little help from me with the
language (if necessary). For my part of the collaboration, I would be
rewarded with a couple of beers.

I don't need to earn a lot more, because I've just landed a lucrative
pool-cleaning contract that will net me in excess of 100 euros per
month. *Every* month (except August).

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

Sorry - didn't mean to rant. It'd be different if *you* wanted a website
(re-)building. Us biker bro's gotta help each udder out, after all.

CMS stands for Content Management System - basically a generic template
system with a flexible database behind it.
The HTML mark-up is generated on demand by a server-side script (like PHP or
Perl). There are data-entry forms to keep the database up-to-date.

There are several open-source CMS solutions out there...
http://www.mamboserver.com/
http://drupal.org/

... but there's more complete (and rated) list here...
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=143

If you can't find anything you're happy to use then I'm sure I can help you
out.

I could get the price right down if you were prepared to do a lot of the
donky work and customer-facing stuff. Plus you'd learn some webmonkeying, if
that turns you on.

I'll email you.

 

I do have oodles of time, so I don't mind doing donkey work. The
customer is a drinking buddy, so no problem there. I also know my way
around a keyboard (was a programmer for quite a few years). But I have
never done any webby stuff.

About pool cleaning? Praps not. Do you have my email addy?



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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

Heh. There's some limescale in the bath, but our swimming pool has
round-the-clock protection from dirt, grime and virii courtesy of it being a
figment of our imagination.

Your email addy? Nope - wasn't it then? ;o)

Could you email me - sorby69 at gmail dot com - cheers

 

Emailed. Incidentally, there's no such thing as "virii".

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24