As you can probably tell, I enjoy computers. I find them fascinating. My intrinsic thirst for knowledge has reached a point where I now realize that I will never know everything there is to know about them, nor understand everything I try to learn about them. Therefore, when I was approached by a client recently, to upgrade their website, I soon regretted my usual agreement to do so, assuming I could simply figure out how to implement any of their required features, if need be.
These clients have an on-line estate agency, and list all their properties on their web site, complete with photographs. They wanted their site visitors to be able to search all their listings, using pre –selected parameters such as price range and location in
Algarve.
I have looked at many such websites and figured I could tackle job. All I needed to do was learn programming language that these type of database driven sites use. Well, I purchased book and soon realized I was in over my head. Learning this new language would have taken me months.
Rather than tell my client I could not do job, I decided to outsource programming portion of design job. I network with many other computer related people in Algarve, whose services compliment mine, and have called on their specific areas of expertise many times in past. I put my programming project out to bid, so to speak, with a few programmers I know here in Algarve and a few in UK. I also put my project on a worldwide programmers bulletin board, which I have never done before, to see what kind of response I would get.
