Advice from a senior Soho programmer on newcomers

Step 1: Determination

Judge whether you want to work in Soho, whether you want to work part-time or full-time. If you are working hard full time, you usually work more than 12 hours a day, and are working on Sunday weekends. The outsourcing payment in China is not very good. The income is probably less than your job. My job salary is 4 K-6 K in Beijing, from programmers to technical managers. In addition, the quality of your work in Soho is very high. When I was in Soho, I earned 1 k a month at the worst time, sometimes zero. Of course, it is related to my ability to judge the list. I will discuss it in detail below.

Step 2: package yourself

Put all the cases you have done on the Internet, and download the ppt files to others. The most intuitive on the Internet is to create a directory with thumbnails. Of course, these cases are best for survival websites, which is more convincing. Do not use others as your own. Expose them sooner or later. In addition, you must specify the source code for modification. Otherwise, you will know the source code of your XXX instance at a glance. In short, you need to make a standard demo website to show you what you have done and what you can do. Simply put, everyone has no patience. It would be nice to put a blog in all your cases.

Step 3: Customer communication

In my experience, I sent about 100 emails to talk about a list. Therefore, everyone should be prepared. Of course, this does not include a list of friends who will introduce you. Communication tools are basically MSN and QQ, and some customers require Skype. Such customers should not be typing very quickly. In terms of quotation, You need to estimate how many hours of work, set an hourly salary for yourself, and then report the total price. When talking about it, you should pay attention to the position. Because the customer provides the demand, you should not talk about whether the customer's project is good or not. The only thing you need to talk about is to better fulfill the customer's requirements. If you cannot implement it for technical reasons, you 'd better have a very convincing reason. There is always no harm in Multi-communication. About the prepayment ratio, there are generally 3/5/2, that is, 30% in advance, pay code 50%, the next 20% months of payment as part of the service. If you want to pay a small ticket, you can pay 50% for the ticket, and then pay 50% for the ticket. You can also leave a final payment as the technical support fee for a period of time, for example, one month.

4. Good Team

Programmers + artists can access most of the website lists. Now I use smarty as a template and xajax controls the dynamic part of the display. It is very difficult without a fixed artist, 50% of the time is used to talk about the list, 30% of the time is used to design the interface xhtml css, sometimes you need to use illustrator and Photoshop, and the rest is the time to write the program.

5. Notes

1. Do not do the so-called test questions

Several times, I gave you a bunch of questions, some of which are very complicated, on the grounds of checking your level. This is basically a disguised consultation, and he will not ask for answers by himself. I have already done traffic statistics, Character Processing, and data capturing.

2. Do not publish the homepage or plan the case. You must make a prepayment when you exit the homepage, unless you have too few works or want to work hard. Planning also requires payment for labor. The last time I had a pet station, I heard that Party A had found a lot of people to do the homepage style, but we didn't know If Party A was an end user. They said they were not satisfied, but I cannot tell why I am not satisfied. I would like to give a few sites for my reference. I also said that I was not satisfied with the first batch of bids and asked me to participate in the 2nd batch...

3. Don't believe that the price is very low this time, but after you finish this, I will give you a few more sites for future expectations.

4. Do not make a list with unclear requirements. Remember that the clearer the requirement, the faster you develop. For example, if you copy a website, the other party does not know what to do either in the package conversion process, this kind of list is very likely to die halfway and won't get the final payment.

5. Try not to take the Modified list. For example, if you add a marketplace to vBB, the price of the List is low, and the customer does not agree with the work you have paid, so it is not necessary to change the list. In fact, such commercial software is very complicated. The amount of work you have paid is close to your re-development.

6. Do not accept the cooperation list for your shares and long-term interests.

7. Do not pick up the intermediary list as much as possible, that is, the list of companies that specialize in website preparation come out. This price is very low. IDC can be considered as a host list, because they basically sell space domain names together, and they have a lot of lists, it will not be too low unless IDC packages all website classes to a company.