Because I'm lazy and basically, not good enough at web development, I've decided to look into paying someone in India or similar, to work on a website for me.
I advertised on freelance.com and got 30-odd responses back with some portfolios etc. A couple of them look half decent, but I'm wary that there are an awful lot of potential issues when hiring someone from a distance to work on a website, ie. payment arrangements, deliverables, project updates, total project costs, etc.
Has anyone done similar and have any guidance or experience to work from? I was thinking of splitting it up into:
stage 1 - project scoping/initial design
Logo, site layout, forum layout, etc, produced in PDF or similar (ie not directly onto web space). payment 50% up front and 50% on delivery.
stage 2 - website implementation and development
As long as stage 1 is ok, move onto commissioning full site development. Maybe payment in 20/20/60% chunks so as to ensure the majority of money is paid on delivery.
Would maybe tie in some deliverables, maybe around functionality ("user can do x, y, z, etc"), successful W3C validation on code, etc.
I think first stage would cost about £100 so it would not be the end of the world if that stage went wrong, but 2nd stage would be a lot more costly.
I advertised on freelance.com and got 30-odd responses back with some portfolios etc. A couple of them look half decent, but I'm wary that there are an awful lot of potential issues when hiring someone from a distance to work on a website, ie. payment arrangements, deliverables, project updates, total project costs, etc.
Has anyone done similar and have any guidance or experience to work from? I was thinking of splitting it up into:
stage 1 - project scoping/initial design
Logo, site layout, forum layout, etc, produced in PDF or similar (ie not directly onto web space). payment 50% up front and 50% on delivery.
stage 2 - website implementation and development
As long as stage 1 is ok, move onto commissioning full site development. Maybe payment in 20/20/60% chunks so as to ensure the majority of money is paid on delivery.
Would maybe tie in some deliverables, maybe around functionality ("user can do x, y, z, etc"), successful W3C validation on code, etc.
I think first stage would cost about £100 so it would not be the end of the world if that stage went wrong, but 2nd stage would be a lot more costly.