"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."William A. Ward
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How to Persuade Website Visitors
Persuasion is influence. It is the manner of guiding people to agree with you - a problem-solving strategy that can benefit all parties in one end. This is also true in web design development services. One of the most common problems of websites is how ...
Html Encryption
Welcome to htmlblock.co.uk Protecting Websites Worldwide Protect your website with htmlblock.co.uk. Our software package gives you the highest in encryption and security levels for both the business and home user.Hide your source code by, encrypting ...
The Pricing Of Web Hosting
Get What You Pay For Why bother paying for hosting when there are plenty of companies offering free hosting? Well, in web hosting, when you pay nothing, you often end up with nothing. Most free web hosts offer limited services. Even though they are not ...
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"I'm just me" - An Overview of an Web er.. Designer, Developer, Consultant and Friend.
I am going to give you a breakdown of my ... er ... work ... playtime .... income ....
I'm a UK based Web Designer, Web Developer, Internet Consultant. I build websites, content management systems and internet solutions for anybody who can afford me. I am a prostitute!! Yes! A prostitute - I use my website to sell my wares and hope that the client enjoys the result if they decide to pick me up. I like to think of myself as giving good head to a "web enabled userbase". Apparently prostitution is the "oldest trade". Well if that's so then I've been doing the same as long at the internet has been available to home users here in the UK.
It's been nearly 8 years since I first logged on to the internet from my home. Prior to that I'd used gopher servers via mdx.ac.uk as a student in the early 90's. Prior to that BBS's were fun. I now find myself working from home as a kind of web dogsbody. Just me, four cats, 2 horses, my son and my amazing partner down here on a 6 acre smallholding in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. I have several titles:
Web Designer
I use this if a client needs me to make images to make their site "pretty". Web design has been written about by the Guru's in their ivory mansions. At the end of the day what is it? It's being able to realise the clients vision without resorting to cheesy backgrounds and blinking text. Keep it nice and clean.
If your a web designer with a difficult client.. do not do what they want!! Just tell them what they should do or drop them. The previous statement depends on two things:
How much do you KNOW your right?
How much are they're PAYING you?
Most of us now know what is good design..
If your lost - read some Chomsky : )
Web Developer
This one is for websites that need "coding" - y'know... PHP, ASP, SQL etc. A web designer puts good clean concepts into an xhtml - css layout which works (HTML is bunk). A web developer makes the content within this design actually "do stuff". I started out making web sites "do stuff" in late 2000. I now make websites do "lots of stuff".
A web developer does stuff which allows users to do stuff. A web designer allows users to read the stuff the web developer does.
Internet Consultant
A nice one this - it covers both of the above yet also allows me to do the following.. It also looks good on a business card.
Beware folk who say that they are "Internet Consultants" who do not also claim to be at least one of the others on this page. They are probably con men.
Web Guru
This is a found role. I can teach! I have ideas!
"Hmm, I do that also" - what makes you special? That's what your thinking.
I don't need anyone to show me how to use my new fangled CMS (that's "Content Management System"). How to send email, use Adwords, get cash from Adsense. Guru - that's just a made up term..
This title come through experience - people are telling me that I'm a Guru. I myself am holding judgemental on this.
I have always been a "communicator"
Friend
I have lots of clients. Some are just one offs. The small guest house that needs a simple three page website and an email account - others are clients that need constant modifications to their portal or ecommerce website. I try to get on with them all. Some have become friends.
About The Author
Andrew Mottershead is a web developer providing his freelance services to anyone who needs his talents . If he's too busy he has loads of freelance mates who may be able to help. His website is www.mindstream.co.uk - which is updated when he gets time.
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 Candidates' Web Sites Get to Know the Voters (Washington Post)
Any two people interested in whether Amanda Beard is dating fellow Olympian Michael Phelps, and who clicked on the Boston Herald tidbit that raced around the Web last week, got the same piece of gossip.
Toxic Tidbits, via the Web (New York Times)
A free Web site enables anyone including prospective buyers and sellers, brokers and neighbors to check a location for health hazards lurking underground.
Malysia shuts down Web site critical of government (International Herald Tribune)
Malaysia's telecommunications regulator ordered Internet providers to block access to the Malaysia Today (www.malaysia-today.net) Web site because it had posted comments that could incite the country's multi-racial society, a government official said Friday.
Microsoft to buy Web-comparison shopping sites (AP via Yahoo! News)
Microsoft Corp. is buying a Munich, Germany-based Web comparison shopping site and its parent company for about $486 million in cash.
Considered 'Republication,' Web Use of Photo Triggers New Statute of Limitations (Law.com)
An investment banker may pursue a suit he filed almost a decade after he claims a photo of him playing touch football was first displayed in a New York Sports Club without his permission. A New York judge held that the posting of Robert Geary's photo on the Web site of the club's parent company "constituted a republication which triggered a new statute of limitations." Geary's attorney says the ...
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