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    awjt's diary of achieving financial independence.

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    In progress... Oh, and, I've gotten additional advice from someone who has actually made money on the InterWebz. He said that your advice, kwerner, is solid. But that my intuition is correct too. Specifically that a test site that doesn't do something like what I'm after is not really a true...
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    Haven't posted in a while, but laying low working this thing. I hired out some of it, and am making progress. All advice about the design has been considered and I am grateful. Thankful to the people who took the time to look and offer criticism. It just means work smarter, work a little...
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    Quick Wordpress site coming... hopefully this weekend... got 1 applicant on oDesk... contacting better ones, though... AND making good progress on main site...
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    Man, YOU are relentless. But so am I. So thanks for your input. I will make a basic Wordpress site with food on it for people to order. I have a google voucher, but if you wanna toss one my way I won't say no. I'll let you know when I'm at that point. Do you mean the chef has to follow...
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    OK, philosophical differences aside, good points, both of you. I signed up on odesk for help this morning and I'm contacting developers. I'm also hunting around for a good graphic designer to take a swipe at the look and feel that I'm after... If no one is good on odesk, then I'll be off to...
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    How can you test something that doesn't exist? You can test something "in theory," but then it's not really a test now is it? As far as this "wasting time" concept, why would I learn karate when I could just buy a gun? Oh, wait, because I like learning karate. Oh wait, I like learning how...
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    It's a useful analogy. Now the property owner knows how to fix a broken garbage disposal, knowledge he didn't have before. Hard-won knowledge, because all good knowledge is trial-and-error. It's not a mistake to want to know how to fix your own garbage disposal, or code your own website. The...
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    I'm willing to take this at face value as good advice. At some point things must take flight and not stay in development. However, I do fail to see the value difference here that you're suggesting. Isn't learning to run a business a skill? Isn't building a business in a new market also...
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    Some good news. Saturday and Sunday, I spent oh around 20 hours working on the site. I have gotten a key piece of the functionality in place: entering the zip, bringing up a list of the chefs that deliver to it, and then the click-thru to the chef's page of meals for sale. Right now, just in...
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    awjt's diary of achieving financial independence.

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    Thanks, kwerner. I thought about using Wordpress, but it didn't seem powerful enough to do what I want, or as extensible. I *have* complained a lot on this thread... well, as my wife will attest, I do complain a lot. But that's because complaining is fun! If I didn't get anything out of it...
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    awjt's diary of achieving financial independence.

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    Things are going... wish I had more time to spend on the rest of the forum, chatting... I unfortunately don't. Some new developments are that I have another two chefs ready to sign up. And I'm working on a few more... and developing developing developing... I'm gaining a more solid footing...
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    Interesting on the Gilt people... seems kinda intrusive to have the chef in your house, etc. Although, there IS a market for that. Just seems rather limited. My place is for delivery of already-prepared stuff. A different feel about it. Middle-class normal people don't hire chefs. But...
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    Thanks, this may force me to stop using the liquid layout. I will test the fixed width, in Win and with IE. THANKS. There is supposed to be a thin bar of background always present on the sides, but the red middle expands to fill the window. So if this is failing, I need to work it out, you...
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    awjt's diary of achieving financial independence.

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    Thanks - 200 pages, no big deal and it looks like a good book. As you can see, I am a nerd, not an ad designer! :) Thanks!
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    awjt's diary of achieving financial independence.

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    Excellent feedback, guys, thank you! I'm using a liquid layout, which is different than most websites because it's supposed to adjust its layout to the screen, but not supposed to cause left-right scrolling. So that is really interesting feedback. I'm on a Mac, using Safari and Chrome and...
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