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[kingcook]

Its the grubby side of the industry but a necessary evil.

He's used to that

[doodab]

I can provide far more gory details if you require but specific questions are easier to answer.

How hard is it to make an EC2 instance from an existing VM?

[eek]

Interesting. I've been thinking about setting up a site on EC2 but can't quite figure out the costs, any pointers?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Micro instances (fine if the code is decent and you're not getting that many visitors are free for the 1st year with a new account).

Most of the micro instances I use cost me $10 or so a month (windows based spot instances).

I can provide far more gory details if you require but specific questions are easier to answer.

[DodgyAgent]

As Simon points out, DA is decidedly non-technical

When I left my last job I was accused of pinching the database until someone pointed out to the new manager that I would'nt know how to use the printer let alone bring the information up on the screen

[Cliphead]

WHS

Even for a recruitment agent it should be easy to buy a domain name, set up a wordpress image on Amazon cloud, load up a theme and add pages and content and point the domain name to that. Its taken me 45 minutes to set up for my plan B.

Interesting. I've been thinking about setting up a site on EC2 but can't quite figure out the costs, any pointers?

[Pondlife]

Oh Dear.

What's the big idea!

Fancy telling the potential customer how he can get the job done in the time it takes him to read the Richard Littlejohn column and for the price of a new tie.

There was 10K in the next CUK pissup kitty up for grabs.

[d000hg]

Consider getting a proper designer. In general, technical people aren't good designers, and designers aren't technical.

As Simon points out, DA is decidedly non-technical

[SimonMac]

WHS

Even for a recruitment agent it should be easy to buy a domain name, set up a wordpress image on Amazon cloud, load up a theme and add pages and content and point the domain name to that. Its taken me 45 minutes to set up for my plan B.

This is the same agent that repeatedly put up his own personal information, including his name, address, credit card numbers and wife's vital statistics.

[fullyautomatix]

The first No10 website cost a lot lot more than that. DDB was responsible for it.

Thinking about it find a wordpress host and hunt a suitable theme. for what you want it will do everything you want and let you update it yourself.

Didn't Jobserve used to give away noddy sites if you bought enough adverts.

WHS

Even for a recruitment agent it should be easy to buy a domain name, set up a wordpress image on Amazon cloud, load up a theme and add pages and content and point the domain name to that. Its taken me 45 minutes to set up for my plan B.

[eek]

Search Engine Optimisation, be wary of of this as 99% of people who offer you this and guarantee 1st place placement on Google are rip-off merchants. Its the grubby side of the industry but a necessary evil.

But only if you want people to find you. If the purpose of the website is simply to look respectable (ho ho ho) when calling up companies then there will be little need to worry about it.

[Sysman]

Thank you all for your comments and yes I have been quoted now £200 by one of my contractors plus a £400 PC.

Dodgy's temps is about to be relaunched.

Anyone got any client referrals I can cut and paste?

Consider getting a proper designer. In general, technical people aren't good designers, and designers aren't technical.

[MarillionFan]

I want a website that explains what we do. I have done the wording and shelled out £1000 already for the branding. I dont want to sell furniture either. what is an SEO?

Just drop the guy a line I sent you. He's good, good value for money and he's unlikely to rip you off until you mention my name and that you're an agent.

[Durbs]

what is an SEO?

Search Engine Optimisation, be wary of of this as 99% of people who offer you this and guarantee 1st place placement on Google are rip-off merchants. Its the grubby side of the industry but a necessary evil.

[DodgyAgent]

Who's providing the content? If you are paying someone to come up with text that makes you sound reputable, then £10k sounds cheap for the likes of you

[DodgyAgent]

It really depends on what you want to do. "I need a website" is the most basic of requirement. Do you want a flash site with lots of animation? or just a plain HTML with lots of tables around.

I am sure you want to do the SEO as the next step, and it really helps in making your first step keeping this in mind, as effective SEO might want to completely redo your whole site. Because this might be a professional site, there might be a lot of work involved and not just doing 4/5 pages. I completely agree with the quote given for what you want to achieve.

You can also have template site for free, but do you really want that?

I want a website that explains what we do. I have done the wording and shelled out £1000 already for the branding. I dont want to sell furniture either. what is an SEO?