Quote from Brandonf:
I understand your question now. My understanding of HTML is basically zero. I use NVU, and even at that I'd consider myself something of an intermediate level novice...I know just enough to put up something that works in terms of my sites. As it relates to that particular coding issue what I did was described my problem and went to rentacoder and had a guy write me a custom piece of software for it. He was in the philippines, I paid him $25 and we both came out of the transaction pretty happy. For most coding related issues that is almost always my solution, either elance or rent a coder. I do the same thing with articles..just pay someone about $6 per article to write articles for me and then post them through the ezines etc.
I think that with your business one of the very most important keys to success is for you to isolate those areas in your business that directly result in dollars going into your bank account. Anything else you should pay someone else because it's always cheaper...especially now with so many places around that offer outsources. One great place to go for outsourcing is a company called agents of value. You can get a full time (40 hours per week) employee in the philippines for about $600 per month..it works out to around $3.50 per hour. I've had as many as 6 people there working for me and as few as none (like now), and only in one case was I not happy with my employee, and they quickly got me another one.
There is another place that outsources people for you from Cambodia, but I have found that they do not speak English nearly as well as the agents of value people do (who all speak english very well), but if you don't need someone who speaks good english (for example link building, webmaster, web designers (if you need a really nice site..frankly though in most cases you dont, the majority of my sites look like my six year old son made them when he was in a hurry)PHP programmer etc. If that is what you need the place in Cambodia is great, but I can't recall the URL. I had a guy working 60/70 hours per week for me and paid $375 per month for it. If you've got a single project only that will not take too much time then rent a coder works great. We created our very own backend system for trading from mainstreet , it was highly customized, and just had a guy from Bulgaria do it. It ended up costing us $800, this was for a project that the cheapest American bid I was able to get was just under $12,000. (keep in mind this was about 5 years ago..prices have gone up a bit). Had I had half a brain I would have sold that backend software like crazy because I still see inferior things selling for $1000 setup and then $100 to $200 per month.
Anyway...I realize I did not directly give you the answer that you are hoping for, but I hope I at least pointed you in the right direction.
