Help knowledge of creating websites is not good

[mtosev]

ok I got this mail from a friend:

How are you? Hope all is well. I will be working on a conference development program and they will need to update their website so I thought of you possibly - is that something you would like to be involved with? I will tell you what we need and you can tell me how much you would charge for the work.


Here is website that needs to be updated - xxxxxxxx


Here are a few ideas of what I would like to add:
1. Countdown clock
2. Registration form
3. Audio options
and many other options


Once you let me know if you are interested, I will discuss this further with you.

Sould I try to do this or no?

i'm asking this as my knowledge of creating websites is not good and i don't wanna screw up something. I have good knowledge in other stuff that is in other computer areas. i'm an expert in HW, SW and pc security.

and if i will accept is someone ready to help me if I need help?

 

[DaedalusHelios]

Is this possible contract from another guy in Slovenia?

 

[erocker]

It's all up to you and how comfortable you feel doing it.

 

[mtosev]

It's all up to you and how comfortable you feel doing it.

i never done this before

????

 

[mtosev]

Is this possible contract from another guy in Slovenia?

no he lives in the USA.

 

[DaedalusHelios]

Give it a shot. I prefer Adobe Dreamweaver for my website design. Its pretty easy to use.

 

[mtosev]

stupid questing but how hard is it?

 

[GJSNeptune]

You don't seem too confident. I would tell him no, especially if he's wanting to pay you. He's going to want results in a timely fashion. If you don't even know where to start, you need to decline.

 

[mtosev]

You don't seem too confident.

i'm always like that.

btw dreamware costs 510EUR.

 

[GJSNeptune]

Use Notepad++. It's free.

DreamWeaver is a good tool. It doesn't insert much junk code, and it works well with Photoshop (of course), but manually coding is the best way to learn what's going on, and to know how to tweak and spot what's tripping you up.

 

[mtosev]

i still don't know what to say. please help coz i wanna give hime an answer by Sat.

 

[GJSNeptune]

I told you to say no. Do you need someone to tell you to say yes?

 

[mtosev]

i wanted to hear more than one opinion

 

[GJSNeptune]

It's yours that matters. erocker told you that it's up to you and how comfortable you feel. Daedalus told you to go for it. I told you no.

If you don't know where to start, how are you going to know how to end? If you tell him yes, I really hope you don't let him pay you.

 

[GJSNeptune]

and if i will accept is someone ready to help me if I need help?

Really?

Seriously, tell him no. Then learn web design on your own so that someday you'll know what you're doing when you're asked to help with a project, instead of being clueless and having to ask someone else to do what you accepted to do.

 

[mtosev]

it's not that i don't want to make but i don't know hard is it. if in requires work in notepad that no. i know how to write .bat files in notepad. coding the website myself wont work and i'm not gonna try it. still how hard would something like that be. that's the main question.

 

[GJSNeptune]

Hard for someone who doesn't know how to do it.

1. Countdown clock
Countdown towards what? Does it need to be reset and start over? Probably best accomplished through JavaScript.
2. Registration form
Not hard to make or anything, but you'll need a database. The hardest part is keeping it secure.
3. Audio options
As in embedded audio, or an actual audio player like on Myspace and PureVolume, etc.?
and many other options
Such as?

 

[mtosev]

Hard for someone who doesn't know how to do it.

he didn't write this 99%. i think that he is just asking me as he doesn't know anyone else.

one more question: are there guides avaiable. if so and they are in english i maybe could understand if they are for beginners. i'm not a complete noob.

 

[GJSNeptune]

But you have a responsibility if you accept, and you won't be able to follow through with it immediately. You'll first spend the time learning what to do and how to do it instead of diving right in. Then let's say you learn what you need to do and do it. Chances are it'll be shoddy and full of security issues. You'll have to rework it, probably several times.

 

[Deleted member 3]

i still don't know what to say. please help coz i wanna give hime an answer by Sat.

If you have no experience at all, I wouldn't take on a job.

 

[mtosev]

If you have no experience at all, I wouldn't take on a job.

you have i point but i also never opened a gamecube and i never changed an optical lense and never did solder on the gamecube but i changed the lense and also i didn't solder in souch a small place but i did it. took it apart changed the lense soldered put it back and it worked.

i said to the friend (who has the gamecube) that i'm not sure but he insisted. maybe luck maybe not. i also installed a modchip into my xbox and fully modded it. i only used guides on the net and i didn't kill it.

 

[Oliver_FF]

At the end of the day, IT deserves to be a genuine profession - like Doctors and Lawyers and Plumbers. It currently is not, and this is entirely down to people in the IT industry saying that they can do something and then not delivering it. This also gives a bad reputation to people in the IT industry - how long ago was it that something negative about IT hit the news? Not long :shadedshu

If you are doing something formal or getting paid for something and don't understand it or have no experience with it, leave it for someone who does.

 

[mtosev]

At the end of the day, IT deserves to be a genuine profession - like Doctors and Lawyers and Plumbers. It currently is not, and this is entirely down to people in the IT industry saying that they can do something and then not delivering it. This also gives a bad reputation to people in the IT industry - how long ago was it that something negative about IT hit the news? Not long :shadedshu

If you are doing something formal or getting paid for something and don't understand it or have no experience with it, leave it for someone who does.

i said no and qouted you.

 

[GJSNeptune]

We're not doubting that you could learn. Our gripe is that you know very little right now.

 

[mtosev]

i feel that i leat him down as when i was in the USA on some my health issues he helped me and my mom as she doesn't speak english. i'm crying right now as i was unable to help him when he needed. i can't explane how I feel I let him down. i feel like a jeark or an asshole.