Xara web designer dime a dozen?

[behzad]

So you got wordpress and easily you can find millions of designers that know how to work with it.
With xara where can I find these people? I mean lets say one day I drop dead or want to pass on my
xara clientele to someone to take over, who do I call? Ghost busters?

[letsgofishing]

Start training one of your friends now

[Acorn]

behzad, what are you offering for a Dime? A dozen of what? Websites to be maintained?

I could offer 5 days @ 8 hours a day for a rate of £25/h so a site would have to outlay £1,000/y.
I could handle 50 sites a year.

Any offers?

Acorn

[behzad]

Acorn, I will keep you in mind. I plan to retire soon and my xara clients are freaking out. I will push for a few more years. Btw, can they just use the html code without xara files to have a web designer use dreamweaver to update and maintain their site?

[Acorn]

Btw, can they just use the html code without xara files to have a web designer use dreamweaver to update and maintain their site?

No, that would be a total disaster, behzad.

Any site that has to be supported needs to be built against some design. Without any documentation, changes will be become unmanageable.

The best you can do is rebuild each website and document every single thing so that you, another XDA developer or at worst the Customer can make and document their own changes.
Staging and version control are paramount so you need to inculcate a regression strategy.
Pick one of your current sites and use the Xara Import from web address facility. Note all the functionality, Names, Layers and the like that are missing. Document those first.

In the end that's what you were paid for.
If not, up your charges and ensure you have a robust annual support contract.

Acorn

[Acorn]

I thought I would offer up an approach to documenting a website to promote discussion:

Documenting a Website.xar

Acorn

[drbubu]

behzad, what are you offering for a Dime? A dozen of what? Websites to be maintained?

I could offer 5 days @ 8 hours a day for a rate of £25/h so a site would have to outlay £1,000/y.
I could handle 50 sites a year.

Any offers?

Acorn

HI Acorn

Can I get you to help me to finish my website with this quote?

It would help me so much!!!

Dr. M

[Acorn]

HI Acorn
Can I get you to help me to finish my website with this quote?
It would help me so much!!!
Dr. M

We can have a chat about it, sure.

Here is a Discord link, that runs for 12 hours and has 5 sessions available.

All you need do is Post a Message to TomPotBlenny (me) with your best email address and I will set up a comms path for us.

https://discord.gg/UWE5sq

Acorn

[drbubu]

We can have a chat about it, sure.

Here is a Discord link, that runs for 12 hours and has 5 sessions available.

All you need do is Post a Message to TomPotBlenny (me) with your best email address and I will set up a comms path for us.

https://discord.gg/UWE5sq

Acorn

Could you send the link again, it is expired... Thankx