Website changes

[t4ttg]

I have outscourced my project to a company in India, now Im wondering how difficult will it be to rectify problems or make small changes to it, would a uk company be able to do that or would it need to be done from the original developer.
As I would rather use a UK based company in the future.

its a kind of reverse auction type, quote system.

 

[Zeal]

Unles the chaps in India are using some untold special secret language - there's no reason why you can't have changes / updates by anyone over here. Providing they have full access to the system / site

 

[Ranks]

Yeah, make sure you have access to the server, or have them put the site on your own hosting account in the UK. You should be covered, and have no issues
Jay

 

[t4ttg]

Hi
Thanks for all your replies, its good to know that I will be able to use someone else UK based for changes.

 

[electroforms]

I've heard some horror stories from colleagues about out-sourcing (the web sites do work, but the underlying code is not good) so modifications take a lot longer than they should.

As Ranks says, make sure you have everything from them. You can test the website working on your own local machine if you get the files.

 

[akirk]

As mentioned above - depends on how it is written - if they have encrypted code / used complied code / use common code on their servers / etc. then it is possible that you will be restricted on what others can do - also depends on your contract / their Ts&Cs - you don't automatically own the code they write, so you can't always take it with you...

We have seen examples of all of these - the key is to start by setting out the basis on which you will do business and then you are covered for the worst eventuality - contracts are always there for when things going wrong - so always go into a relationship looking for it to go right, and working to make it happen, but allowing for the possibility that it might go wrong...

but assuming everything is open and fine - yes no issues.

Alasdair