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[Job] PHP Developer Needed for consultation
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:37 pm
by ValEff
PROBLEM:
Live site running osCommerce, PHP PhotoPost, and PHPbb is terribly S-L-O-W and temperamental. We've recently moved to a new server (Host Excellence), but the issue wasn't resolved.
IDEA:
Bring in a developer to assess the situation and advise a plan of action. Developer MUST have working knowledge of all three 3rd party applications
See the live site here:
http://www.scrap4life.com
I'm open to suggestions and comments - what do you guys think?
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:43 pm
by feyd
What's the pay range?
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:49 pm
by Weirdan
Suggestion: state what access level you're ready to provide to the developer. For example, I wouldn't bother to troubleshoot performance issues without shell access to the server.
Suggestion2: state the price tag. In fact, it's required to specify the price you're willing to pay to post in the Job Hunt forum. Otherwise your post will end up in the Volonteer Work forum.
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:57 pm
by ValEff
I think I'm looking for quotes ... but I know that's hard to do without more details.
I'm at my wit's end with this project ... I just need some help
My client is willing to pay what she needs to pay, but neither of us are in a position to decide how much we should offer. We have no idea what its worth, and the budget has stretched pretty far already - in several failed attempts to fix it....
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:18 pm
by RobertGonzalez
When you say slow, what do you mean? I just visited the site and it seemed OK.
Part of it may be also the way the markup is working with the browser. To be honest, the site is pretty on the home page but looks like hell on the forum page. Not to mention that the HTML has errors all over the place, even when using the Transitional DTD.
http://www.scrap4life.com/ has 30 validation errors
http://www.scrap4life.com/phpbb/ has 32 validation errors
http://www.scrap4life.com/gallery/ has 105 validation errors
http://www.scrap4life.com/catalog/ has 41 validation errors
The problem could be any number of issues, but it looks like your server is serving up pretty good. Have you tried adding a timer to your code output to see how long (according to the script) it is taking to process each page?
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:24 am
by nickvd
The very first thing I would do, is re-design your navigation. Flash based navigation is a very large accessibility oversight. If your users don't have flash, or block all flash (as I do), the site will be completely in-accessible. Also, the flash that is in the right hand content box can be switched to css's overflow:auto property...