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Any advice for hiring ASP,NET programmers?!

Bummer situation...

         

Judy1997

5:54 pm on Sep 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello all. I'm in the process right now of needing to hire an ASP.NET programmer (sorry if that's not supposed to be capitalized --don't mean to scream), or a company with a couple of them.

I need to do this because my social networking site was built in ASP.NET, but build badly :( , and I had to hire another programmer to go through the first one's sloppy, uncommented code and get up to date with it so that he could begin to work with the site (and I had to pay him $1200 to do that, I might add -- 40 hours of work). He did that, and worked with the site for a bit, then came down with his own personal problems, and here I am stuck again -- $8,000.00 in the hole and no functioning site yet.

I will NEVER AGAIN have a site built in ASP.NET, but I have this $8,000.00 site sitting there that needs to be taken over by programmers who can work with it so that I can get it online and hopefully starting earning money to replace what I'm out.

ANYway, please give me any advice you might have about finding or hiring good and affordable ASP.NET programmers -- those who would be so good as to be able to wade through the current code and take over working on it, but not cost so much as to make it out of reach for me. (Tall order, I know!) Any and all advice would be appreciated -- I'm completely clueless when it comes to web design/programming languages, so I'm flying blind, I'm alone in this, and I need any help that you can give!

Thanks so much,
Judy

Megaclinium

2:21 am on Sep 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



there's various sites that allow you to negotiate payment for services rendered up front.

You can escrow the amount till done to your satisfaction.
They show how many projects the person completed and how happy with the results I think I recall.

I don't remeber the names.
You can do a search for these.

idolw

12:03 pm on Sep 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



why not ASP.NET? that technology is efficient. you do not need 100 servers if you are lucky with your social networking site and suddenly start getting 5M uniques a month. And you will need 200 servers to serve that on PHP.
Of course, .NET is expensive in salaries, but programmers are better than PHP ones I met.