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Originally Posted by RBM_Paul
NATS supports is there, you do not need to program anything, likewise the same with elevated.
All you need to do for both, some HTML and CSS. And if you done the CSS for the site, well that is half the job done for the join pages, yeah granted, the responsive CSS is a royal pain in the arse, but once you crack it, you have a template from every other site you need to do.
But coding HTML and CSS is not really programming, programming is like accessing a multidirectional array for a guidance system in ADA, and the syntax for such things, or hey, remote method invocation in java or C# if you are not that old skool.
That is programming (at a basic level).
Like you, I am a one-man team, both production and website, and you always forget the booking and organising side of the job. There are just not enough hours in the day, then you have the piracy and account sharing on top. Dealing with arseholes that want refunds, or your billing processing completely letting people back on your site, that you have blocked for abuse.
You and I are not the only guys on this site and in the industry that do all this ourselves.
So, I know how hard it can be, and this year, yep, I am seeing more money outgoing and incoming.
2020 is about making sure you are here in 2021. It is December, my money is on another lockdown come January. I would strongly focus on content production from March 2021, at home here in the EU, and do it yourself and I would be open to working in partnership with you, if that is something you would be interested in.
But if not, that is cool with me.
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Paul.
NATS is not just coding, html and css.
most of the time is about setting, check that all is working,
than something new happen, and you start again, calling assistance and try to understand what happened.
it's very time consuming.
design a join page is real pain in the ass, consider the smarty php.
I found only few designer, that prepare an html5 page, then I should call a coder to integrate it to NATS code.
so, that's not really my idea of hire someone to make the NATS join page.
about elevatedx,
I didn't use their default templates, so I cannot really call them for assistance.
default templates have big seo issues
(yes, I did a course for seo specialist too)
so I called a programmer, to use a template I bought, and set that in a new way, to respect basic seo rules.
pluse some extra functions, like show video timing, etc.
then, I focused on site speed, for pagespeed insight
that huge mess,
my coder is doing a good job (about 2 months)
now site is fast, but I have to fix design again, cause to make clear code for speed, broken almost entire design.
but we are very close to a final solution.
I'm focusing on seo, and link building now, with elevatedx with correct seo setting, it works well
biller, I use epoch, I removed ccbill cause it was too slow for me, and too complex to setup new prices. probably I will set it back, for sepa payments only.
I will see if use bitcoins soon.
about refunds, with epoch just some issues.
with ccbill they did a wrong setting, so I had a lot of issues.
so, basically, I miss just exclusive content.
bought some equipments, just some extra lights and a crane 2s , and I should be ready soon.
I'm open to partnerships, or simply have a guest worker on set (payed)
there are different solutions.