Our family has grown! We have a new member in Isarie’s family. Meet Mr. Frodo, our cat:

He is a very agressive little boy but he is well educated! We love him very much!

What I am saying here is that I really do not understand where the webdevelopment industry is heading to. Recently, I have been visited some freelancers websites, one of my favorite being Get a freelancer.

Lets take this particular project posted by this particular service buyer. As you can see the first bid is by a service provider named “sakshiinfosys” and they have a website too: http://www.sakshiinfosys.com/.

Of course, I have visited sakshiinfosys’s website and what I have seen there did not surprised me at all: the web packages links on the front page leads us to a 404 error page. In my humble opinion this is inadmissible for a company who act in the webdevelopment scene! I guess you do not expect for pages to validate against W3C’s validator…

Another example of a company that is looking for projects on Get a freelancer’s website is Verecorp. Tried visiting their login area: http://verecorp.com/login.php. The result speaks for itself… [Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/verecorp/public_html/login.php on line 1]

What I really do not understand is why there are so many service buyers that are accepting bids from this kind of companies or individual freelancers? I know some real cases, and I am sure there are many, many others, when service providers leave unfinished projects or poor designed case in which the service buyer need to find other developers to fix or finish the project. One case like this is Gurus2Go. Another is www.choctree.com/staging/new/prod_list.asp?page=price.

Unfinished projects or bad design:

• Finish a ASP/MSSQL project
• update existing website make it work
• Indexu ongoing small mod work
• Site finishing
• Website-Layout-Design

Is there anybody out there that can make me understand why would somebody give their business website to be developed by such unprofessional developers? The price is all that matters? You, as a service buyer, get of how much you paid for! And then you will pay some more to professional developers to fix or finish what the other cheap, I admit, “developers” did. So, the total cost of the website is bigger than you initially thought and the time for delivering the final product is way, way much longer!