By Gordon
– April 11, 2010
You’ve unraveled some of the mysteries of HTML, successfully built your own site, and now it’s time to get it onto a server and out there for your users to see. When it comes down to choosing a web hosting provider, though, it’s easy to get lost in all the jargon and claims. How is it possible that there are so many hosting companies out there who seem to offer essentially the same thing? How do you know who offers the best hosting? How much bandwidth will your site need? What about storage space? What’s the difference between Linux and Windows servers? And all those acronyms!
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Posted in Hosting, Web.
Tagged with site5, web hosting.
By Gordon
– March 31, 2010
Since I have been busy for the last few weeks – I just wanted to write a short post (and hopefully start a discussion) about recycling. During these few months I have spent online as a blogger, checking out other peoples blogs, I have come to realize that new and unique topics, subjects or opinions are hard to come by. Is blogging really helping the environment or is it a bad thing that bloggers are recycling each others material?
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Posted in Blogging.
Tagged with being unique, Blogging.
By Gordon
– March 8, 2010
Today I am going to share with you a great web application I’ve came across called Project Bubble. Being a newbie web design freelancer myself, a lot of times I had problems charging people for my services. How much money do I ask for? Do I charge them according to how much time I’ve spent working on a project or do I charge per banner, per menu, per link, per text page? I always found it hard to set a price tag on my work. Besides the price, I never really took the time to organize my freelancing work professionally, make some fancy invoices that i can send to client and stuff like that. Now that I’m using ProjetBubble, those are all things of the past. Continue reading…
Posted in Useful Apps.
Tagged with crm, freelancing, project bubble.
By Gordon
– February 10, 2010
Today I have a great treat for all you loyal Google Chrome users. As a web designer, I never could do without Mozilla Firefox because of all of it’s fancy web development plug-ins such as Firebug and Web developer. In my opinion, that was the only thing that made Firefox stand out from the crowd. Some people didn’t want to stop using it because of their addiction to all the plug-ins that they just didn’t like change.
But now that Google Chrome has it’s own little extension directory, it has become even a bigger competition and the beauty of it – it’s still in beta! In this forum post, I am going to show and suggest to you 5 Google Chrome plugins that made my life easier.
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Posted in Blogging, Useful Apps.
Tagged with browsers, chrome, google.