Well, don't do like my BIL did. He paid some guy with a bobcat to prepare his polebarn site on the side of the hill. All the guy did was to scrape off the topsoil. I told my BIL that it was no good, but I'm guessing he didn't want to pay what it would cost for a proper site prep. When we set the posts, the low side was like two feet lower than the high side! He had to splice some extra length on to one of the posts just so he had something to nail the girders to. There was a foot gap under the rim boards he had to close off with lumber. He never did bring in any fill to level it off. He would have water standing anytime it rained. He eventually sold the property; I sure the new owners have had fun trying to straighten that mess out.
When I built my shop, I picked a fairly high spot and had sandy fill brought in. I compacted the fill as best I could with my tractor and a vibratory compactor. It's been almost twenty years since I poured the floor, and there's not a single crack in it. I have good drainage on three sides and OK drainage on the door side. Time and money spent properly preparing your building site will pay off many times over.
It sounds like you're going to put brackets on the floor and attach your posts to them. That's OK, but those posts have a LOT of weight on them and the floor has to support them if you don't make footings. Do the math on how many pounds of roofing each post has to support and I think you'll want footings.
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