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algeh ([personal profile] algeh) wrote 2011-10-03 02:52 am (UTC)

I was planning on reading through whatever document they sent using the dropbox and hand-pasting it into my system rather than expecting a parser to do it. :) I've programmed enough to know that parsing stuff like that is hard to set up and for the volume I need it's much better to just do it by hand (I can have a maximum of one overnight client per night, and generally people hire for more than a night at a time, so it's probably less than 100 documents a year even if I become wildly successful, and I can do the cutting/pasting while I'm dogsitting for the previous client since dogs don't take your full attention 24/7).

I think I'm just going to set up a static site for now because I can see that I have to give Actual Thought to what kind of dynamic web stuff would make sense and I just don't have the time right now. My competitors don't generally have very elaborate web presences, so it shouldn't cost me much business if mine's pretty basic. I just need something to put on the damn business cards so I can start putting them up on local bulletin boards and such. One of my competitors says she gets most of her new business through newspaper ads, even, so I may go that route.

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