[johndenver]

1) confidentialiaty

dont worry about it. as soon as your site goes public everyone will be able to copy it anyways. People are way too protective of ideas in this day and age. Execution is way more important

2) Platform

if you go rentacoder or elance route you can insist on what platform because their is a big pool of talent. If you go local you should probably just go with the best talent regardless of platform, btw if u know lamp anything else will be easy for u to follow imo

3) depends, request it up front

4) i would want daily updates, generally email form

5) yes

6) ur in control, make the contract whatever you want. I know at online sites the programmer gets paid on completition, but there is an arbitrater to settle disputes

7) i would want 3 prior websites built

8) someone that seems too confident, claims to be an expert in too many technologies, anything that sounds too good to be true

9) idk

10) I would post an ad at a local CS dept first, it that fails then go elance.

PS - i'll do it for 75$/hr [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]