I've been doing web

netsperience — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:09:25 +0000

I've been doing web development for 10 years but seriously for hire for about 5 with a recent 1 year hiatus.

I am currently engaged in about 5-6 projects and in negotiation for about 3-4 more.

If everybody came to me tomorrow and said "here is the stuff you've been waiting on me for" I would be in a bind - but that will never happen.

I have unending work on one project, a medium sized ratings-type site. Never ends.

I am involved in 2 or 3 other sites for about 3-4 hours a week each, making small improvements, updating those Drupal modules.

I am under consideration for a 6 month contract for remote Drupal development for a publishing company that is moving much of their content from print to web, there will be a team of 4-5 developers and the pay is middling but nothing to sneer at ($35/hour but guaranteed 40-50 hours per week - and if remote and you can work fast, the ratio improves).

If you have some experience I would recommend posting a résumé at CareerBuilder I get about 6-10 calls and emails a week from posting there.

If you reply to gigs at Craigslist (I am in the NYC area) I have found that I get a response to one out of about 50 emails, and out of those about a 25% rate go on to actually contracting work. I have met some very solid clients on Craigslist, also some strange and crazy people that blow my mind.

I have been bidding on Guru.com projects but have not been successful - I think I am just underbid, and I have no track record there. Occasionally I really lowball a bid for an interesting project, but still no takers.

I have tried Getafreelancer and Scriptlance and probably a couple of other markets, but in those places people are actually saying they will build an ecommerce site for $500 and it is just not worth even trying to compete.

I'm doing a lot with CMS,

demtron — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:49:25 +0000

I'm doing a lot with CMS, AJAX, and and SEO.

Hi john_aa, welcome to TWF!

JeevesBond — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:29:03 +0000

Hi john_aa, welcome to TWF!

Not sure I understand the question, are you asking what we're working on? I'm doing lots of private work at the moment, it's not the most exciting but it pays the bills. There's always loads of work out there for Webmasters, designers and developers.

Occassionally we get to do some work on this site and our articles site (haven't written a new article for ages ). Am also maintainer of three Drupal modules, they need some TLC though and an update to the latest version of the CMS.

That's it really, what are you up to?

Just trying to get my head

caffinephil — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:08:28 +0000

Just trying to get my head around CSS positioning and Sematic Mark Up. Yup i'm quite new to the game. ;o)