Looking for a trustworthy web developer

[djmcmath]

I'm looking for a recommendation on a web developer. They'll need to work in PHP/MySQL and JavaScript. I'm looking for someone with the initiative to look beyond the limited design and prototyping that I've done to point out ideas I've missed, as in, "it seems like it would be useful to have a page that did X." I'm also looking for someone who is reasonably efficient. Based on my own work on the page so far, as an unskilled developer working nights and weekends, a skilled professional should be able to take over and finish the detail work in about two weeks.

I have an artist working logo, design, and layout, so I really just need someone to take over back end work.

Any recommendations? Anyone you've liked working with before? Any developers on the site?

Thanks,
Dan

[oldE]

Dan,

My son has done some web work for a number of folks, including another Pelican on the west coast.
If you like, I'll pass his contact info on to you.

Les

[id10t]

I can do the coding stuff, but I'm not good at the pretty stuff. I usually have one of my coworkers do the graphic/pretty stuff ...

[Tishabet]

Some more details on what the site actually does might be helpful... I have 2-3 people I can recommend but they have different strengths etc.

[Don Plumley]

Originally Posted by oldE

Dan,

My son has done some web work for a number of folks, including another Pelican on the west coast.
If you like, I'll pass his contact info on to you.

Les

I think I am the "Pelican on the west coast" - highly recommended

[oldE]

Don,

Thanks for the "thumbs up".

Dan,

In case you wanted to contact him, my son's email is:

jsmith@resonatingmedia.com

Les

[rattlsnak]

Web developer and web designer are two very different things. Developers can build what ever you want if you tell them what you want. Designers do all the artwork and choose colors or fonts or layout style.

[djmcmath]

Sorry for the long silence; didn't have time to get back online yesterday.

The page is a front end for a database of what people do and don't like, and where they can find it. So for the database amateurs (like me), there's a huge table of "if you like x, you'll like y," and another huge table of "if you're looking for x, you can find it at these locations." There are actually a couple of similar sites, except that nobody's incorporating location yet, which seems silly to me, because the product in question is HIGHLY location dependent. It needs to operate both in full web browsers and on mobile devices -- and this is part of the problem that's really kicking my tail. I'm ok at laying out stuff on a big screen, but making pages that are small but readable on a tiny device is just hard.

Anyway, I have a friend who's working the artwork and "make it look pretty" side of the page. I've built a bunch of the database, and have built enough of the front-end components to prototype database functionality. I think the optimal person for the job would be someone that I'd classify as a "web software architect" to lay out the things that I've missed and turn my collection of prototype components into a reasonably professional web site.

At this point, I would guesstimate that it's a couple of solid weeks of full time web developer work to clean things up and make it workable, though I'd honestly settle for 2-3 days of

oldE -- I'll be writing to your son as soon as I finish this post. If a Pelican is willing to vouch for his work, that's good enough to induce me to write, and you replied first.

id10t -- if oldE's son doesn't have time in the very near future, you replied second, so I'll give you second shot at it. I don't need pretty so much as I need functional, so you could be perfect for this part. Thanks for the reply.

Thanks,
Dan

[MBAtarga]

Well - nothing like pulling out a thread that's 13 years old! I thought the calendar in the southern hemisphere was on the same year.

[A930Rocket]

Seems like more and more bots are invading our space.