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Hi folks,

To anybody who has emailed me and not got a response, please wait until I get my speed back up, I have literally hundreds of emails and PM’s on youtube asking for help, and I really can’t keep up with it, especially not on dial up, plus, at the moment, I am not getting paid to help you folks, so please, if you email me, it may be a while before you get a reply.

I wasn’t expecting hundreds to tell you the truth, but now that I know just how many people want to learn PHP and out of the very small audience who actually watched my tutorials (small compared to how many people in the whole world want to learn) I have a bit of motivation to do these tutorials and help out.

So, what am I going to do, I can’t answer every one of your emails - it’s surprising, I actually get more emails and pm’s than comments on the actual video, understandably though as you need to paste code in your message.

So, what I am thinking is this, a weekly live stream - roughly 5 hours or there abouts, where I can show you how to do things, not necessarily help out with your code but show you how to do things - as you probably don’t want your code read out to the whole world.

I am also thinking, that for general code fixing rather than a full tutorial, people can pay me a small fee to fix their code, I am thinking about charging by time as it is the most sensible way to do it, I’ve looked and the up and down sides to both charging by time, charging by file etc, and by time is seriously the most sensible way to do it, though I am not going to be an asshole and say something that takes me 5 minutes took me 30 mins - I guess you are just going to have to trust me on that one, its not like I’m going to charge much anyway, probably $5 per 30 minutes to fix code, and if it takes me 5 minutes to fix, then I’ll probably not even charge you..

The CMS tutorial files download, I was originally thinking $10 for the CMS, but now I am thinking $25 - still cheaper than a DVD. My reasoning behind this is that people pay $1000’s for a CMS, depending on the size of the company, and $10 seems as if I am ripping my self off, so $25 it is, plus, I need to save up for a dedicated server as my shared hosting might not be able to keep up with the massive file downloads of the HD video content, depending how popular it gets, and that means I have to pay 20 times more a month, meaning.. I need to save big time.

Note, if you sponsor me, you get 10% off the downloads - meaning, instead of $25, its around about $22.50 - that works out to, basically, $2.50 for your advert, and if you download two different loads of files, that means you’ve saved money, depending on the prices of the files.

So, $25 gets you this

The design .psd files, the html, css, php, mysql queries to run, as I can’t actually give you the database, so if you have mysql set up, you copy and paste the query and BOOM, your database is ready to go, you basically get everything in the tutorial, except you don’t need to code or design (unless you feel like designing) it yourself.

All in all, you really need to just copy the files that you’ve downloaded, onto your website, run the query (very simple) and your website is done, for $25.

$0 gets you this

The tutorial and no files, learning should always be free… and no, sorry, I am not allowing people to have the files for free if they think they can learn from just looking at the code - I know you can, but you can look at the code in the tutorials

I hope that all made sense, I kinda had to rush this post, tell me what you think about the ideas

$5 per 30 mins isn’t much to ask - and if you give me 2 files to do in the 30 mins, and I do get them done in 30 mins, then you don’t have to pay two lots of $5, as you might would if you were to give me the codes on seperate days. Hope that makes sense.