Offering people money around here is often a good way to get yourself mobbed in a big way... many of us (like ME! ;) ) are independent and often looking for paying work to keep ourselves busy between personal/internal projects. I'd love to help, in any way I can... especially if there's dollars involved.
But you have to keep in mind the fact that you may not like what you hear. In all honesty, what you've presented sounds a bit like a losing proposition because the problems that have started cropping up are based on some basic issues that could have been solved at the instigation of the project. What Continuum Media Group (my company... http://www.web-relevant.com) is currently looking for in prospecitve clients is a long-term commitment to the project, the technology, and the work it takes to create a successful project. We've got some defined strategies to help with issues like you're facing, but it may take some painful decisions to get your project back on track. I'll concur with everything Jim says in his post... a runaway project is a nasty thing to deal with, and we've had to deal with these things in the past, gently reminding clients that Phase 1 is for establishing basic functionality and identifying new features for future phases. Phase 2 is for including the primary features discovered in Phase 1... etc. This structure works well for several reasons, not the least of which is keeping clients interested in that long-term project cycle that we like to see. It makes for a much more mature, well-developed system. Hope this helps, and if you're interested in further conversations, please let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a fantastic week! J On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:50:34 -0500, Mickael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > My developer and I are working on a CMS for various clients. Our clients > keep coming up with new requirements as the project grow or change. We are > not having any issues meeting these requirement for new functionality on the > website. But in my opinion we are not achieving an elegant and easy to use > interface. As I review the interfaces I am finding that they are very > configurable, very scalable yet I feel that they are written for programmers > or people of a technical background which kind of defeats the purpose of > creating a CMS in the first place. I am sure that many people on this have > faced the same issue. Can any one suggest a good resource for making easy to > understand user interfaces, books, sites anything. > > BTW if anyone feels that they are an expert in this field I am also open to > paying for Consulting in this matter. > > Thanks > > Mike -- Continuum Media Group LLC Burnsville, MN 55337 http://www.web-relevant.com http://cfobjective.neo.servequake.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:198609 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
