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Has anyone ever used His.ie

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  • 05-06-2016 4:19pm
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    Hollister11
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    I'm an aspiring Web developer. Last night I was looking good for local we development companies and was the best I came across was http://www.his.ie/ in Baldoyle.

    I even remember this company being advertised around the area a couple of years ago.

    Has anyone ever used these, and if so what are they like.


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Can't say I've ever heard of them and to be honest I'm not sure it would be fair to start reviewing the work of someone that hadn't asked for it to be reviewed.

    Keeping things purely factual, they claim (on their Facebook page) to have completed 1,200 web sites which is a fairly savage number of site for what appears to be a 10 year old operation.


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    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Looks like they build on their own cms and charge 30 pm on top of dev charges.
    Makes it difficult to move your site.


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    Jack Killian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭Jack Killian


    Nathan Helpful Roof wrote: »
    Looks like they build on their own cms and charge 30 pm on top of dev charges.
    Makes it difficult to move your site.

    Yuck! I'd hate that.

    A site should be one-off OR rental, not both.

    And I regularly do a custom CMS for people but there's absolutely no tie-in; if they want to move there's no issue, as I want clients to WANT to stay with me, not force them to.

    Obviously if someone else tampers with the site then any standing-over-it or support that I naturally do is broken - I can't be responsible for that - but apart from that they're free to do what they wish.


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    Graham
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    Nathan Helpful Roof wrote: »
    Looks like they build on their own cms and charge 30 pm on top of dev charges.
    Makes it difficult to move your site.

    The only reference I see to the €30/mth is the 'SEO package'.


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    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Graham wrote: »
    Can't say I've ever heard of them and to be honest I'm not sure it would be fair to start reviewing the work of someone that hadn't asked for it to be reviewed.

    Keeping things purely factual, they claim (on their Facebook page) to have completed 1,200 web sites which is a fairly savage number of site for what appears to be a 10 year old operation.

    They have been in business for 4114 days, so 587 weeks.

    They have completed 1175 projects, so they have completed 2 projects a week for the last for the last 11 1/4 years.


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    They have been in business for 4114 days, so 587 weeks.

    They have completed 1175 projects, so they have completed 2 projects a week for the last for the last 11 1/4 years.

    Like I said, a fairly savage number of sites to be churning out. Would lead me to believe they're doing incredibly well with brochureware type sites. Nothing at all wrong with that if that's their niche.


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    Jack Killian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭Jack Killian


    Graham wrote: »
    Like I said, a fairly savage number of sites to be churning out. Would lead me to believe they're doing incredibly well with brochureware type sites. Nothing at all wrong with that if that's their niche.

    Exactly. It did look high but if they were hitting a niche of basic site and had 3 or 4 staff then there's also the possibility that it's one person working on a site for a fortnight. Doable.


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    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Jack Killian wrote: »
    Exactly. It did look high but if they were hitting a niche of basic site and had 3 or 4 staff then there's also the possibility that it's one person working on a site for a fortnight. Doable.

    One person eve potentially throwing out 2 sites a week on his/her own.


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    Jack Killian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭Jack Killian


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    One person eve potentially throwing out 2 sites a week on his/her own.

    Can't see that being consistently doable over 10 years, to be honest. I've gotten a handful of very basic sites done in 3 days over the years (first enquiry to finish) but I'd be stunned if that were possible repeatedly with any level of customer interaction in terms of what the client needed.

    Hence why - in order not to cast aspersions - I said it was doable in a 3 or 4 person operation.


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    daymobrew
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    I reported a number of typos to them via the footer form.

    As a WordPress developer, the blog post "Wordpress Vs Bootstrap" irritated me. It has another few typos and the comparison is an invalid one because Bootstrap is not a CMS.


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    smash
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    The last time I heard about his.ie was years ago. At that stage it was a one man show working from his house. Going by the address, it's still the case but his prices are considerably more expensive than they used to be.


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    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    There know up to 1179 sites. There really churning them out.


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    smash
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    Hollister11 wrote: »
    There know up to 1179 sites. There really churning them out.

    Because the sites he churns out are pretty basic templates.


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    Aswerty
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Aswerty


    Graham wrote: »
    Can't say I've ever heard of them and to be honest I'm not sure it would be fair to start reviewing the work of someone that hadn't asked for it to be reviewed.

    I think it's fair game to give an opinion on publicly visible work. Though I'd leave well enough alone as a professional courtesy.


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    Adam Brennan
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    I understand this is a bit of a bump, but I am surprised that this website even makes business.
    Their main website looks terrible, and I'd reckon the underlying code is as equally as terrible as the looks.

    Their blog system doesn't even validate that retrieved queries actually output anything, as can be demonstrated by feeding non-existent information into the blog_title parameter (blog.php?blog_title=not-a-valid-title).

    Instead of outputting a 404, it just outputs a blank structure. Not good.
    If you still haven't decided OP, I'd advise not going with them.


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Adam Brennan wrote: »
    If you still haven't decided OP, I'd advise not going with them.

    Did the OP suggest he was considering 'going with them'?


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    Adam Brennan
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Adam Brennan


    Graham wrote: »
    Did the OP suggest he was considering 'going with them'?

    Not directly, however, asking for opinions on those who have previously used them indicates to me that he may have been considering doing so.


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    devildriver
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭devildriver


    Adam Brennan wrote: »
    I understand this is a bit of a bump, but I am surprised that this website even makes business.
    Their main website looks terrible, and I'd reckon the underlying code is as equally as terrible as the looks.

    Their blog system doesn't even validate that retrieved queries actually output anything, as can be demonstrated by feeding non-existent information into the blog_title parameter (blog.php?blog_title=not-a-valid-title).

    Instead of outputting a 404, it just outputs a blank structure. Not good.
    If you still haven't decided OP, I'd advise not going with them.


    To be fair, it's far from the worst in terms of web design in Ireland. bUt that's another big discussion which of course involves talking about the typical Irish small business client.

    In any case I thought the OP said they were an aspiring web designer/dev so were looking for work rather than buying design services.


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