https://www.davehall.com.au/tags/100-drupal-site/Recent content in $100 Drupal Site on Dave Hall ConsultingHugoen-auSat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2011/01/02/100-drupal-site-series-part-7-wrapping-it/Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2011/01/02/100-drupal-site-series-part-7-wrapping-it/Thanks to everyone who read the posts in my $100 Drupal site series. Today I will be responding to some of the points people have raised in comments and via email as well as adding a few closing comments. Undervaluing Labour Some have suggested that the only way to make a venture like this work is to work for a few dollars an hour. I completely disagree with that! If you are building every project from scratch and only charging your clients 100USD, you will be working for peanuts, but I’m not advocating that model.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/29/100-drupal-site-series-part-6-business-considerations/Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/29/100-drupal-site-series-part-6-business-considerations/During this series on creating a profitable business around the concept of building Drupal sites for $100 I have attempted to demonstrate that there is a viable business model here. I don’t believe it is a business that will suit everyone and nor do I believe every developer will want to work on such a project, but for some this will be an excellent opportunity. Today I will cover some of the things that I think you should consider before investing too much in this business model.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/28/100-drupal-site-series-part-5-support/Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/28/100-drupal-site-series-part-5-support/Through out this series, the cost of labour has been identified as one of the biggest risks for this project. As most people who have run a tech business know, support can turn into a massive black hole of wasted time. Today we will look at how to manage support in a way that helps you avoid any direct customer contact for support. Documentation and Online Resources People like documentation, or even better videos, to walk them through a process.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/28/100-drupal-site-series-part-4-platforms/Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/28/100-drupal-site-series-part-4-platforms/So far in this series we have covered a potential target market and business plan, resources and infrastructure and the tools required to deliver Drupal sites with a sale price of $100 per site. In this post I’ll be covering some of the considerations when building Drupal platforms or distributions. The sites which customers deploy will need to be based on a custom Drupal distribution or “distro”. The distro should be modular and primarily driven by Features.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/26/100-drupal-site-series-part-3-tools/Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/26/100-drupal-site-series-part-3-tools/In the previous instalment of my $100 Drupal site series I covered resources and infrastructure. In this post I will be covering the development tools I think you need in order to build and sell Drupal sites at the $100 price point. Given that Drupal 7 is close to release, it is assumed that the sites will be built using D7. I don’t believe that it is smart to invest heavily in Drupal 6 for new long term projects, given D8 could be out in 18 months and D6 would then be unsupported.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/24/100-drupal-site-series-part-2-resources-and-infrastructure/Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/24/100-drupal-site-series-part-2-resources-and-infrastructure/In my previous post in this series on the $100 Drupal site I outlined a possible target market and set out why I thought very low cost sites could be a viable business model. Today I will cover the resources and infrastructure you’d need to consider to build such a service. I am not proposing that the business is built on the premise of working for $5 per hour to build new sites for each client.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/24/100-drupal-site-series-part-1-it-possible/Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/12/24/100-drupal-site-series-part-1-it-possible/In late October Gdzine posed the question “$100 CMS web site feasible? What do you think?” on LinkedIn and the question was also posted on groups.drupal.org. These posts lead to lengthy discussion threads. Some people accused Gdzine of trolling and others claimed that it wasn’t possible, but a few of us argued it was possible to build a Drupal site for $100. Over the next week or so I’ll be blogging how I would go about delivering $100 Drupal sites.