ASP Project Question !?

[contrid]

Hey guys,

I don't have any experience with ASP and MS SQL, but I am rather a PHP and MySQL coder. I have a question regarding a project. I wanted to hire someone to do a small ASP project for me, since I cannot code ASP.

These guys told me that this project will take 6 days to complete atleast. Now I know that if I had to code this in PHP and MySQL, it wouldn't take me anything more than 4 hours. SERIOUSLY!

Here are the project specifications :

Create a database with three fields, of which the first one is an ID field which auto_increments. Create a basic admin panel for an administrator to add, edit and delete quotes.

Each quote will have an ID, short sentence, and a long description. Short sentence will be varchar(250) and the long sentence will be TEXT.

Create a small code snippet that connects to the database and drags a random short sentence from the database everytime the page is loaded with this snippet. When the user clicks on the short sentence, the long sentence opens in a new window.

And that's it. Do you guys really think that this would take 6 days?
Do you guys really think that this is worth more than $200 ?

I don't know if I've lost it, but I'm sure I can easily whip this up in PHP and MySQL in 3-4 hours...or less. Maybe ASP is just VERY VERY complicated, and you have to be very very good at coding to get things done. Not really sure.

All comments are welcome! Thanks.

Contrid.

[alexievici]

Hello,

Altho I'm a PHP & MySQL coder too I have some limited ASP knowledge, that project shouldn't take more than 4 hours, I bet if you start with the ASP tutorials from scratch you can finish it in 1 day.
Have a look at this tutorial:

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_dbconnection.asp

I don't find that extremly difficult at all :).
As for the price I think $50 is a fair price for it, my guess is that they are trying to rip you off.

Alex

[contrid]

Hello,

Altho I'm a PHP & MySQL coder too I have some limited ASP knowledge, that project shouldn't take more than 4 hours, I bet if you start with the ASP tutorials from scratch you can finish it in 1 day.
Have a look at this tutorial:

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_dbconnection.asp

I don't find that extremly difficult at all :).
As for the price I think $50 is a fair price for it, my guess is that they are trying to rip you off.

Alex

Thank You Alex! :)

That's what I said. I have extended knowledge with PHP, MySQL and little JS programming.

I know what programming/development overall consists of.
I also know that MySQL and MS SQL really isn't that much different.

Insert a quote would be something like :
INSERT INTO quotes (id, short, long) VALUES ('', '$short', '$long)

Edit a quote would be something like :
UPDATE quotes SET short = '$short', long = '$long' WHERE id = '$id'

etc...etc...

But I'm still shocked. 6 days and $200 !?!?
Anyways...tough luck. I told them that I won't be making use of their service, and won't be considering them in the future. Seriously.

Hey...
Maybe you can do this. :)

[alexievici]

You're welcome. I would do it with pleasure by I prefer to stick with PHP & MySQL as ASP sucks from my point of view and I can't learn/use smth that I don't like.

[trendywebs]

Hi Contrid. Well ASP & PHP are not that very different. I guess that code wouldn't take more than a few hours in ASP the same way as in PHP. And definately not for $200. It seems that each time you post a project it runs into trouble:D. But, anyway better luck next time. That tutorial is great i went through it too. Believe it if you fiddle with ASP for a few hours you yourself can do it all by yourself. Its not a big deal if you know PHP. Nothing is impossible.

Regards,

Anirban.:)

[contrid]

Thanks.

Though I didn't post a project. I was referred to a programmer by a friend. We only discussed this on Skype.

I won't bother trying to learn ASP. Seriously. It's just that my client needed work on a Windows server with an ASP site. Other than that, I wouldn't even consider trying to understand how ASP works. I guess all of you would agree with me. :D

[ludesign]

Thanks.

Though I didn't post a project. I was referred to a programmer by a friend. We only discussed this on Skype.

I won't bother trying to learn ASP. Seriously. It's just that my client needed work on a Windows server with an ASP site. Other than that, I wouldn't even consider trying to understand how ASP works. I guess all of you would agree with me. :D


Hi,

The guys have already said it, so i can't say anything new. I've got learned ASP 3.0 in 2 days (i'm not ASP Guru .. but i can handle with it).

And because you are one of all here that i respect, i'm ready to help you with this project. If you want any help, just tell me :)

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http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/ - these tutorials are very useful :)

[Andrew]

not all peoples may produce something in 4 hour..

you seeking monkey around , but there are real peoples.