janieluk

I’d like to scan and organise all my old family photos. I know it’s possible to do this with a home flatbed scanner – I got through about 150 photos from my time in Cameroon a few years back. However, the quality and the speed were both too sketchy at the time.

Does anyone (in the UK!) know a cheap, high quality scanning service I can send my photos off to? I’ve found http://www.iphotoscanning.co.uk/ and http://www.scanero.com/ so far, both of which offer surprisingly high prices and low resolutions.

Sarah’s bought some running shoes in the New Year sales, so I’ve now got someone to go running with. Through the grey streets of London. In freezing temperatures. Now why didn’t I have a ‘read 70 books a year’ plan instead?

After months of smoke and mirrors, the solution to making the company work is creating stuff to sell and then selling it. Who’d have thunk it?

Anyways, now I’ve reached that point, and I know what I can create, and who I can sell it to, I’ve got another problem. All of the stuff I need to create is web-based, and I’ve signally failed to find any web programmers or designers in the past two years.

1. I’ve been trying to find people to work part-time on the site. Agreeing a retainer or an hourly rate has been very unattractive to anyone I’ve spoken to.
2. I run on Drupal, and the market’s gone through the roof for it. The Drupal-based agencies in London have been run off their feet, and a few have hit problems by trying to fill the gaps with people who don’t know what they’re doing. Getting out of bed for less than £15K is unattractive. I haven’t had a single even barely competent response to ads on Drupal sites.
3. I like pootling around on Drupal! I can run my site reasonably well, and this has stopped any problems from becoming acute. It’s also stopped me from developing quickly enough and from focusing on wider business issues. Like, you know, making money.

And here’s where you come in, dear reader. I was hoping the wide world of the internet might have some suggestions on how to find someone to help me with the darned site. I’m pretty much stuffed if I don’t find a web designer and a Drupal/PHP website builder in the next couple of months. There’s strong potential for ongoing web development work, as one of the main products I want to sell is managed web services, amusingly enough. Any suggestions?!