If your company is limited to just a few employees, or if your
specialist area is design and graphics, you may find it hard
when commissioned to build a complete web solution to meet the
demands of your client. Programming work can be time consuming,
and needs to be handled by a specialist in the field if you want
an efficient, robust and secure solution. Especially in the
field of e-commerce, you simply cannot afford to have your
reputation damaged when someone finds security holes all over a
client's site. If you are unsure of your abilities when it comes
to programming, outsourcing the work to someone who knows what
he's doing can be the best way forward.
Let's say you have been working on a complete redesign for a
client and that they also want the functionality changing.
Having looked at the code, it's such a mess that you realise it
would take you twice the allotted time scale just to figure out
how it works and hence it will need rewriting from scratch. You
start work on the look and feel of the site and design some new
graphics since this is your strong point, and you try not to
think about the back-end, this can come later. The client is
happy with your work so far and is looking forward to the end
result.
So, you have the design completed, your front-end XHTML/CSS is
all in place, but the website you are working on still needs a
shopping cart, content management facilities and user
authentication implementing and you only have 3 days left! What
do you do in this situation? Enter the freelancer.
Hiring a freelance programmer can significantly ease the burden
when tackling difficult or large projects. You can pick and
choose the areas that either you don't want to work on or don't
have the time for or that you are simply unable to do yourself,
and let somebody else worry about them. Not only does this free
up your time to work on other aspects of a project, but it can
even save you money.
A lot of freelancers will have a library of well tested
programming code to draw from that means they can complete new
projects very quickly, enabling them to charge less for it, and
ensuring you a fast turnaround time while still getting top
quality, optimized and secure code. Another great advantage to
the reusable code scenario is that the code will often be very
well organized making it much easier if the client comes back
for something changing to avoid rewriting it all over again.
In summary, hiring a freelance programmer can save you time,
money and stress, making your working life easier without the
added burden of extra employees. They can deal with the areas
that you can't or can help to bridge the gap between small and
large projects in that period when you have too much work for
your staff, but not enough to hire more.
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