program I am building

[businessman332211@hotmail.com]

I have a big question, I am debating(thinking) about whether to accept a project. I am unsure about a few things on it, and was looking for a little guidance. I quoted him at 1600 at first, he said it was a little out of his price range and he needed to keep it below 1k if possible, so the next step is I am charging either 6500, or 9000 I am not sure which. Here is the thing I am not sure of, so far the entire site is pretty simple. I am going to work a design up for him from scratch, and the programming behind the system, up until a certain point is very easy, Until the end, it seems to get hairy, how difficult do you think it'd be to program this near the end. do you think it's worth accepting, what do you think I should charge for this one.here is a set of specs, (me taking notes) when I was speaking with him over the phone.

Complaints, someone has complaints about a company. Give them a domain, something like microsoftreallysucks.com or something, like a 1 page website, and send people to the website.Research-Legal concerns, related to using this.Planning phase, research about company copyrights, when using acompanysucks.com4-5 page websitefirst- introductory page(I provide images, He will provide the text, leave space for text).totally open on design.Keep it simple.Open on everything even background color.go to next page-page 4 pages- 1st page introduction2nd page capture all information(ask them for the sub-domain they are looking for)give them an option to either have 3rd page- carry all the information from the 2nd page to the 3rd page, give them a couple of options, a basic template, which is we have a template, that has a company name, and has whatever really sucks(whatever there domain is), then were they can enter there own text. and that they can add some html and code. depending on what they click it goes to the payment page4th- paypal, or whatever else( until they pay, the sub-domain is not created until payment is accepted. They need to go to paypal 5 templatesautomatically create logo 3 things1. has the name of the sub-domain in text(as a logo)2. Has editable text area(s)3. enter html. ONLY HTML(all)be able to access to the source code from there site, ONLY there own sub-domain.there sub-domain contains 1 PAGE( and 1 ADMIN) area.

I still have to check if doing that is even legal, if it is, then we the last area get's done, it seems I have to make the templates(There will be like 5 I create, all pretty basic), interact with my script, when they pay via paypal, then it automatically, creates there sub-domain using.See here is the processthe first page is an introduction, with 1 link to set everything upthe second page they enter all the information, and choose a subdomain name, and a templatethe next page is the tricky one, sort of afterwards, it takes the sub-domain and makes it as a text logo for the next page(nothing fancy), then that is there template, from there, tehy can customize the xhtml, "no javascript, or php can be allowed in", then they basically go through checkout, it passes information to paypal, they pay, then the information using ipn, goes back to http://www.webdesignhq.com/sitebuilder/man...readme.html#faqthat is the script used to automatically create the sub-domain.Then from there, once hte sub-domain is successfully created, I need to go ahead and put that template type page, as a .htm file into the folder for that sub-domain. It needs to look just like they had chosen it to look, then I need for it to also automatically create an admin page, within that sub-domain folder that was created for them, with this admin area(ONLY), it needs to have some sort of password system, or something. Then on that admin area, it needs to be able to allow them to change the xhtml of the page, without them being able to change anything as far as php, or javascript.That's it. But it has to create the .htm page, and the admin page, for each person who signs up, and has to do so dynamically. can anyone give me advice, on whether this is possible, whether I should take it, how much I should charge, whether it's even worth the prices I listed, or what? Security has to be taken into account as well as performance, as always.

[justsomeguy]

You might as well just have 1 admin page that everyone accesses, and when they sign in it only shows that user's information. That would be a lot easier then creating a separate PHP admin page for each directory.As far as advice goes, it's sort of up to you. If you need or want the work, then take it. Creating the subdomain is the most difficult part, so if you can do that, then everything else is possible. How much you should charge is up to you, you should sit down and design everything, and then try to estimate how many hours it will take you to do each part, and then you can figure out what hourly rate you want to charge. If he's making money off this site, then he should expect to spend a decent amount to get it developed.I thought this was funny on that FAQ:

What's the difference between the sub domains generated by the Subdomains script and real sub domains?The price! "Real" sub domains are expensive. If you were to ask your web hosting company to create a sub domain for you, the company would have to change the web server configuration files as well as the DNS server setup. This will of course cost you a lot of money. And this is just the price of one sub domain!

Is that some kind of scare tactic? Because I can set up as many subdomains as I want and it doesn't cost a dime. The host doesn't have to do anything, it's completely automated through cPanel. Anyway, I just thought that was funny. But apparently that script requires wildcard DNS, so make sure you are hosting it on a server that supports that.

[businessman332211@hotmail.com]

He's doing all of that, he brought the script to me, he told me about it, and said he wanted that setup on there, I don't know if I can do that within 2 weeks though, how long would it take you to build that? Just so I have an idea of what I am getting myself into.

[justsomeguy]

Honestly I'm not sure, I would need more details to be able to put together a quote. I would probably estimate somewhere around 2 weeks including testing, but that would be working on this alone for that time.

[businessman332211@hotmail.com]

hmm, so if I was working on a few other projects, probably 3-4 weeks?

[justsomeguy]

That's probably about right. It's hard to tell how much time may be required to work out bugs if you run into problems along the way.