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cubecolour, as a former moderator on a help forum, I appreciate the work you do. The fact that I am spending time to give you feedback on your style of commentary should be perceived as a form of caring on my part. I could just log out and go elsewhere.

It is not your motives I am questioning, it is your perception. I feel that your motives here, for the most part, are to provide assistance.

Again, you put all of this back on me. “sorry I didnt give you the answer you wanted.” – this isn’t about giving me an answer I want. In my last post, I stated that you did. You don’t even read what I write about and comment on that. You read what you want to read.

I am obviously reaching out, right now, because I feel like I’m possibly being bilked for money. That issue comes down to a technical mishap and the consequences from it. I appreciate that you do not want to say something either way on it. That’s understandable. You don’t know the specifics.

But please understand my side of this, as a customer of a web designer. I have just lost a 5 month old, $2,500 website. I want to know why. I want to know if he was a professional, why he wouldn’t have had a back up file. I want to know why he claims that our cowboy coding(the only option he gave us, btw)caused the archive data to be corrupted. Hence, we now must pay for the site to be rebuilt.

My 2 cent psychological opinion is that you feel undervalued in your work. And you, ever-so-slightly, let that color your perception of posts like this.

Peace.

govpatel, thanks. I don’t understand what he means by that either.

cubecolour, I’m feeling insulted by you. You seem to assume the best in this unknown web designer and assume the worst in me.

The money isn’t the issue. We would gladly pay for something, if it is warranted. We have. and, in my opinion, we have paid handsomely for it. This is a small business website with text and pics only pages, numbering 10 pages total. We don’t need too fancy of hosting. GoDaddy, again, is $9, for a basic deal. We are being charged $15. And with that $15, what do we get? A corrupted archive from messing up code on a theme? So now, he wants us to pay him to rebuild the site.

Not all car mechanics are good and honest. That’s been proven time and time again. Web designers are special knowledge types like car mechanics. So, you’re going to defend this guy, who you don’t even know, before just simply giving me the benefit of the doubt that I am trying, earnestly, to understand my situation.

This is a free wordpress forum. I imagine that perhaps you get more than your share of people coming on here trying to get something for nothing. Well, guess what? It’s a free forum! You’re a moderator. If giving your knowledge away for free offends you, then don’t do it. Certainly don’t moderate it!

And this is a technical question. Don’t tell me to go have coffee with the guy.

You answered my question, condescendingly, with “I’ve never personally experienced database corruption after getting a white screen of death due to cowboy coding a live site, but I don’t know what else may have happened to your site, so I wouldn’t want to comment either way.”

Cowboy?!? Get real DUDE!

Sorry, I should have been more clear. In fact, I’m rethinking the title of my thread. It sounds like I’m somebody that wants something for free perhaps, instead of someone that is feeling cheated.

He is a professional wordpress web designer. We paid him thousands of dollars to design the site of 10 pages. He then charged us $15 a month to host the site. We have since learned more about wordpress and have designed our own, using a standard template.

He told us that he would make slight alterations for free to the site for a year, a verbal agreement. We had access to add or change pages, except for the home page. We asked him to make these specific changes to the home page(changing the color of some buttons along with making it have 2 columns instead of 3). He told us that he would have to charge us to do that.

We felt that it was a minor change. But he didn’t want to make the changes. So, with some struggle, he gave us the permissions to do it ourselves. Of course, being novices, we made that coding mistake.

I was trying to avoid a long back story for ya. But it seems important to communicate that, yes, this was a paid gig for him. He makes his living doing this.

Thank you very much for discussing this with me.