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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3468999" data-attributes="member: 22882">For an online magazine?  I know people, and once would have numbered myself among them (internet standards have left me by the wayside as I got out of the business), who could put together a solid layout in a week and finalize it in two.  I'm not sure how much Flash - Wizards uses it already, I'm sure they'll continue to do so - adds to that for experienced Flash developers.On the other hand, I've also known people who would take six months, charging by the hour, just to get a basic working layout.  If Wizards was unfortunate and unwise enough to take them up on their 'services,' then it could be any amount of time.The gripping hand is, Wizards could have had this in production for any amount of time.  The survey was quite a few months ago (a year?) and they may have been laying preliminary plans even before then, just as part of pitching the idea.  They may have decided to not renew Paizo's license a year ago or more, and the survey's purpose was to determine whether it would be better to make Dungeon and Dragon online or off once they inevitably took them back in-house.As for databases, I have no idea.  Designing the kind of database we're talking about was out of my depth back in 'the day,' and definitely is now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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