Entrepreneurship

Great Website for Freelancers

I stumbled across this site for freelance designers and have been enjoying it ever since. I really love the layout as well. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Entrepreneurship, Web Design

New Look Same Crappy Content

I got a bug up my ass to change the layout. Nothing fancy, just a wordpress theme I found. I’m far too lazy / untalented to come up with something on my own.
Hopefully this will encourage me to actually write something of substance.

Entrepreneurship

Wordpress as A CMS

Yes, I know this isn’t anything new, but I’m quickly becoming a big advocate of using wordpress as a CMS for client websites.

CSS, Entrepreneurship, PHP, Programming, Web Standards

Building a Strong Web Based Community

What does it take to build an online community these days? Not much. With packages like Drupal and phpBB, the means to run a community oriented website are literallly just a few clicks away. But what are the factors involved in making a community site successful?

Entrepreneurship

Yaro is Smart

Just a quicky today. Don’t worry, we can cuddle afterward and I’ll even call you tomorrow. There I go digressing again.
Over at Entrepreneur’s Journey, Yaro has a quote up that kinda hit home today. That quote is:

“When you own your own business you may not make any real money until you sell it.”

As both of [...]

Entrepreneurship

Affiliate Programs are Cool

Being a wannabe web entrepreneur, I’m always on the look out for new ways to monetize my websites. One of the most popular ways to monetize websites these days is by using Google Adsense, Google’s PPC text ad program (see far right column). To be honest though, I’m not a big fan of the program. [...]

Affiliate Programs, Entrepreneurship

PHP and Paypal

I consider myself fairly versed in the programming language PHP. I prefer it over M$ languages because its free and open source, also because the majority of shared web hosting servers available are linux based. PHP and Linux play very nice together. Although you can run PHP on Windows-based servers.
When developing a new site, if [...]

Entrepreneurship, PHP, Programming

Get It In Writing

If I had a million dollars for everytime I’ve been burned on a design deal, I’d have…well at least a million dollars. I won’t name names or point fingers, but deals always seem to go sour when not in writing, especially when dealing with web design.
Tags: web design

Entrepreneurship