More On Outsourcing Development of Your Sites
By Justin on Jun 30, 2008 in Site Development | comments(0)
I’ve already discussed crowdsourcing creative work such as logo design, but I also needed more development oriented work. For programming type items I decided to turn to oDesk for a contractor/company. Why oDesk and not 99Designs? 99Designs is good for design related work, it kind of says so in the name no? I have several projects in mind that will all require some outsourcing of JavaScript and/or PHP so I wanted to transition to an outsourcing site that catered more towards developer needs as opposed to designer needs.
The first project I posted on oDesk is really just to dip a toe in and see what kind of results I get. I need a new menu system for a pending redesign of gamersmark.com. If the initial project goes well I can see offloading a lot of work to developers on this site. As a programmer myself, my first instinct is to do the work myself, but that requires a large time investment, especially since my strengths aren’t in PHP. Learning when you should hire somebody as opposed to sinking your own time into something is important.
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