Hi everyone,
I need help deciding on one of the following options:
1. Continue to try to learn HTML/CSS from scratch, with no prior programming experience, and apply such knowledge to a template that I bought, possibly settling for a less professional-looking initial website until I get some cash flow.
2. Save enough money to have a company on elance do my work for me (this could take several months to both save the money to pay for the project and get the project completed).
3. Partner with an entreprenueral-minded friend with fairly significant amounts of saved money and free time, and use that funding to create a decent website (from a business perspective I would love to have him as a partner, but he has a lot more money than me so I am not sure that I could arrange for an equal partnership)
It has been a while since I have updated my progress, but I am moving along and I am now at the point where I am trying to decide between a few options. Right now I am trying to create a simple, 5 page professional-looking website as basically a portal through which people can contact me directly for my services. Idealy, I would like to provide a website similar to a hertz/enterprise-type online reservation system, but I believe I am going to wait until my business grows before spending the kind of money that would be required to develop such a website. Basically, I am trying to balance the shoe-stringer approach with the outsource to experts approach. I know that both can work, but for someone like myself who isn't experienced in computer programming, is it better to study the programming and spend weeks or months trying to get a simple website right, or get my business launched as soon as possible?
Thanks a lot!
I need help deciding on one of the following options:
1. Continue to try to learn HTML/CSS from scratch, with no prior programming experience, and apply such knowledge to a template that I bought, possibly settling for a less professional-looking initial website until I get some cash flow.
2. Save enough money to have a company on elance do my work for me (this could take several months to both save the money to pay for the project and get the project completed).
3. Partner with an entreprenueral-minded friend with fairly significant amounts of saved money and free time, and use that funding to create a decent website (from a business perspective I would love to have him as a partner, but he has a lot more money than me so I am not sure that I could arrange for an equal partnership)
It has been a while since I have updated my progress, but I am moving along and I am now at the point where I am trying to decide between a few options. Right now I am trying to create a simple, 5 page professional-looking website as basically a portal through which people can contact me directly for my services. Idealy, I would like to provide a website similar to a hertz/enterprise-type online reservation system, but I believe I am going to wait until my business grows before spending the kind of money that would be required to develop such a website. Basically, I am trying to balance the shoe-stringer approach with the outsource to experts approach. I know that both can work, but for someone like myself who isn't experienced in computer programming, is it better to study the programming and spend weeks or months trying to get a simple website right, or get my business launched as soon as possible?
Thanks a lot!
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