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Originally Posted by Obesity Discussion  You can go locally but you never know what you're going to get. Ideally you will want to find someone that has experience doing specifically what you're looking for, someone with a good rep, and someone with a portfolio of sites they've done in the past that you can look at and observe.
Web developers on the whole are VERY shady, so beware. That's why it's important to get someone reputable. I've dealt with a few rip-off artists myself. I personally would go large for piece of mind.
Costs vary drastically depending on what you're looking for....you may need certain software, licenses, etc too.
Then there's the issue of marketing.........if the site isn't setup well no one is going to find it via search engines....and that's usually where most sites' traffic comes from. Some people (including myself) pay for a little marketing assistance.
It would probably help to know what exactly you are looking for. |
For starters, the site will be a fitness site. It will have pretty much everything you can think of. Articles, forum, recommended readings, maybe exercise instruction vids, online training capabilities, calorie calcs, nutrition database.... list goes on. It's simply in the planning stages at the moment, but we have a lot of great ideas. It's just that we aren't sure exactly how to get them from ideas to the web.... I take it that's the developer's job.
Secondly, is it the web developer's job to get the site to come up in searches, or is that something else I have to consider... finding someone else for that?
Thirdly, marketing isn't too big a concern. I have quite a large following on the web and my partner is one of the head trainers in Philadelphia.
We tried going it on our own using homestead.com but we couldn't possibly make it as nice as we had hoped.