Hire a web developer?

[Mr Kelly]

I have no coding abilities and am wondering if I should hire a web developer to optimize my sites in order to sell for a profit. I know there are programs like dreamweaver, but I want top notch sites. Please share your opinions, thank you!

[catchmesleeping]

It depends on how you're trying to be competitive. You can just as easily install Wordpress or some other CMS on your sites, and focus on building good contents. There are tons of tutorials online about how to install a basic CMS like this, so you probably wouldn't need to hire a developer for that.

[Acro]

You can always do your own plumbing.

[joeny]

You could / should read the DNFblog and DIY

Here is a good author ;0)

http://www.dnfblog.com/author/josephtamargo/


You could always get something like traffic Travis or head on over to SEOmoz.org if you want to get some "hands on"


Let me know if you need any help or if you have questions,

;-)

ALSO - Define "top notch" - What are you trying to build?


I can help you more if you tell me what angle you are coming from......( Parking , WP Content sites, Html5 feature richs sites Ie. image Hosting )

[onlanka]

I have no coding abilities and am wondering if I should hire a web developer to optimize my sites in order to sell for a profit. I know there are programs like dreamweaver, but I want top notch sites. Please share your opinions, thank you!

If you are interested to get help from a web developer, I'm happy to help you regarding this matter.
I' am a freelance web developer. add me on skype, my skype ID: onlanka

Hope we can do better thing on web developing

Thank you.

[fulltiltpoker]

Knowing just Dreamweaver won't help you alot. You need a team or single developer with knowledge in:
1) Designer - Photoshop Design, HTML, CSS
2) Coder - PHP, javascript, SQL...

I recommend for serious business OOP PHP 5.3 Frameworks like for example Symfony2 with Doctrine2 ORM, jQuery Library

For low budget (below 1000$) you get stuck with WordPress...
In fact if you think to sell the whole website with the script I wouldn't pay too much if it's not custom built.
WordPress always comes cheap. There are themes for WP at 30-50$.

[Charles Sweeney]

Are you talking about pretty sites with pretty names or sites that actually have some worthwhile/meaningful content and/or a product to sell?

If the former, then you would need a designer not a developer (in my experience, designers do the pretty stuff, developers do the programming).

I think if you are simply wanting to make "template" sites for some names you have registered, then any low cost CMS or template product would do the job.

Is there a market for such a thing? Don't buyers want sites with good content and/or products?