jackcouch

I would like to learn Arc and could use some help and I'm willing to pay for it. I'd like someone that is a really great programmer (I hope to learn from one of the best) to commit to helping me for 3 hours per week. My programing experience is limited to 6 months pasting together a C# asp.net app 10 years ago. My wife and son are also going to be learning, but I'll be the interface for them.

Once I get a handle on the basics I'm thinking that the best way for me to learn is to try to build a contact management app I've been thinking about for a long time. My hope is that within a month or two my tutor can spend most of his time showing me how to improve my code and letting me read code he/she wrote as part of this "class project."

Since I don't have the expertise to know who is an expert and who is not, I'm hoping the folks on this forum will help me with that.

Thanks in advance for any advice (cross posted from arc forum).

I am experimenting with an offer and wanted to publish this without bothering my developers or messing with our production servers.

https://docs.google.com/a/monchilla.com/drawings/d/1xrOqlfrBiw-XPs3_Yarf4X58VVlU_BqF7NNMl1o26FA/edit

I thought that would be easy, but after an hour of digging I gave up and was about to pass it off to my team and than I realized this would be impossible for most of my users (small business owners - non tech) so I thought I might pay someone to build a real simple UI that would allow users to specify a background image and change the 6 lines of text and then publish it on our servers. Here is why it might be a good idea: 1. Its cheap and would give some free value to my target market (Most of my users don't have a web page). 2. If it is hosted on my domain I might get some SEO benefit and some exposure since my domain name would be in the url. Here is why it probably isn't: 1. Its a distraction from the problems I'm trying to solve for my users.

Let me know what you think and if you don't think it's stupid, if you want some side work ;)