Comments on: Podcast 32: In-house vs. outsourcing

By: Chris KAlani

Chris KAlani — Mon, 08 May 2006 04:48:25 +0000

Hey Paul I sent you an e-mail about a really powerful show idea, I know you are out of town so please get back to me on your thoughts when you return from your trip.

By: Shane Colvin

Shane Colvin — Fri, 05 May 2006 17:07:41 +0000

Fantastic song!!!!! My girlfriend keeps saying, “Why are you laughing so hard at that stupid song…its not funny at all”! Classic!! Well done lads!!!!! Maybe I didn’t understand it correctly at the beginning, but is this the song Marcus is “famous” for? Being from Norway, I can’t remeber who’s song this was….

By: mrv

mrv — Thu, 04 May 2006 11:17:40 +0000

hi ther paul im mrv and i love your podcasts… i’ve been listening your podcast since ive got my first pwdmag w/c features youe podcast i got more tips from in dealing with webdesigns…now im creating my site using pure css and “divs” instead of tables nice work paul… two thumbs up keep it up…
ill post it here my finish layout and give some comments…

By: Mathew Patterson

Mathew Patterson — Thu, 04 May 2006 05:16:43 +0000

A well thought out discussion, Paul. Thanks for mentioning Designers Inhouse – any inhouse designers reading this are welcome to sign up and contribute.
Great song from Drew too…it’s going to be stuck in my head every time I design now!

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:33:13 +0000

Thanks again for the shout outs gents! The commentary at the start of the episode put a massive smile on my face! Actually, it didn't take that long at all ... I'd say two evenings or so. I did intend to send it for Christmas, but then it sat idle for ages :) Hope it brings you tons of new listeners!!

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Wed, 03 May 2006 22:23:12 +0000

Yes we have had a few problems with itunes this week but I have hopefully now corrected the problem. For some reason people were getting episode 31 and not 32.

By: Adam Q

Adam Q — Wed, 03 May 2006 21:54:50 +0000

I am having prob. getting podcast # 32 ? what is goin on ?? please let me know if you can come up with a solution. i can listen to it on the site but cannot get it with the update function in itunes.

By: Daniel Chesterton

Daniel Chesterton — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:17:25 +0000

Is anyone else having problems subscribing in iTunes? Or is it just me :p. Sure it's another great podcast!!

By: Matt Fehrmann

Matt Fehrmann — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:19:06 +0000

Great topic. I used to work for an in-house design team and now work for a Web design firm. All your points are well stated. I know that different organizations have different needs, but I think our publishing house would have done well to outsource major Web site/brand site designs and redesigns to firms, and let in-house staff work on HTML marketing emails, site maintenance, the array of Web forms, banner ads, and promotions that came up weekly, etc. Instead, in-house staff did everything, and quality/creativity wasn't that of a specialized firm.

By: Ryan Holbrook

Ryan Holbrook — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:45:38 +0000

First off, great post. With many businesses going online and their online presence growing, their company’s websites are becoming more and more important of an asset. But like you said, it can cost lots of money to get a good site designed and built. I had a similar problem with my startup which was web based, but we had little initial funding to get the site done. There was no way we could have afforded a high end designer or a big time professional to develop our back end and ecommerce so we used getacoder.com which serves as an auction site for specific web based jobs you may have. We posted what we needed for our business website and individual coders bid on how much they would do the project for. It worked out great.