Freelancing web development

Hey guys,

What is the first thing you do after given a task to develop a website for a client? Let's say, building a portal for them to organize their profiles, files etc within their society.

Let's keep it in a freelancer perspective.

install gentoo

Why not?

install gentoo

gentoo

Talk to the client to find out the details of what sort of reports the website needs to show and figure out how the information is input to the website.

kill yourself

Create a wordpress blog but disguise it as a business website and put their logo on it and then give it to them
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xD

What is the first thing you do after given a task to develop a website for a client?
Collect payment.

freelanceswitch.com

fuck off and enjoy

>>11
freelances witch

install gentoo

install gentoo

Opera 9 - 10MB
IE6 - 16MB
Firefox 3.6 - 37MB
Chrome 32 - 53MB (19 + 34, two processes for a single tab, go figure)
Firefox 10  - 60MB
Pale Moon 24 - 105MB

This is for showing the EXACT SAME 8KB page with some basic HTML and 180KB of images. No advanced features, NO JS, very minimal styling. What the fuck is wrong with browser developers...?

>>15
They are in conspiracy with hardware manufacturers. Face it, it's the only reasonable explanation. Take the red pill.

>>15
How horrifying.
Yeah, what the hell IS wrong with browser developers?

not developing your websites in ANSI C

>>15
Pale Moon 24 - 105MB
Lucky you. Here, Firefox 24 takes 240MB for showing about:blank. adblock+ alone needs more than 100MB. The whole web is wrong.

>tfw i have 300+ tabs open with 706MB used in firefox.
Unload tab Extension: only 10 tabs are actually loaded

>>19
Go back to lynx

>>21
But I do use it. I also use links2. But they're (unfortunately) useless for a lot of sites.

I had Opera for everything 2.0, but they recently came up with the great idea of dropping Presto and I'm left with that annoying copy-paste bug and a broken future. (It wasn't even working properly on every sites, e.g. Coursera)

I had to install one of the heavy browsers. There's Mozilla and Webkit. Firefox required gtk20 and alsa, while the Webkit browsers require gtk, alsa, and dbus. Firefox had better extensions too. To turn it into a fat, slow and ugly Opera, I have Adblock Plus, Element Hiding Helper, Cookie Monster, Https-Everywhere, Noscript, Pentadactyl, RequestPolicy and User Agent Overrider

Of course,  if you don't surf the post-1999 web at all, Lynx is fine. If you really want to live in the past, you can even use it to read net.unix-wizards on nntp.olduse.net.

You know what pisses me off?
I view a PDF in my browser and my CPU starts running at about 80%.
Seriously, what the fuck is up with that?

>>19
The browsers Chrome 32 and above are completely default - I literally unpacked the download, start it, and loaded the page to see how much memory the process was consuming. Addons are only going to increase that.

It's perfectly fine to be adding new features and such if it means pages not using those features don't have to pay for it. I can understand more memory usage for adding JS, lots of CSS, etc. on a page but requiring significantly more (i.e. not just the added code to handle new features) memory just to render the same bloody page is a sign something is terribly, terribly wrong.

>>23
80% is perfectly fine if it's only a spike. After all, it does have to work to render the page, and better if that spike makes full use of the CPU so it does its work as quickly as possible, then returns to idle.

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