Web Hosting Review
I found a good site that helps you decide which web host is the best. I personally use hostgator but this site lists the web hosts in an easy to read format with what you get from them.
Add comment April 30th, 2009
10 ways to increase customer trust in your website
- customer lists
- customer endorsements
- awards won
- independent reviews
- news clippings
- guarantees
- refund policies
- privacy policys
- security icons
- trade body memberships
Add comment February 28th, 2009
Web Marketing Quotes
“At the exact point when your customer has to start filling in a form with personal information, reassure the customer that privacy is sacred to you.” – Bryan & Jeff Eisenberg
“Online, things can live on forever, getting discovered by new audiences
years after they originally launched”
- PSFK, November 2006
“If Myspace were a country, it owuld be 10th biggest in the world, just behind Mexico” – Guardian, November 4, 2006
Add comment October 16th, 2008
Help stop people stealing your website images
Put this on your image tag oncontextmenu=”return false” to help stop people from stealing your images. For example: <img src=”/somdir/” oncontextmenu=”return false”>
Add comment August 9th, 2008
 after upgrading wordpress fantastico
I updated my wordpress blog with fantastico and got loads of character set errors for example  etc.. The way to get rid of them is to comment out these lines in yourwp-config.php file which should be in your home directory of your blog.//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); //define('DB_COLLATE', '');
Add comment June 18th, 2008
Open coffee meet other entrepreneurs in your area
Open coffee is a site that will allow you to meet up with other entrepreneurs in your area http://opencoffee.ning.com/. The problem for me is that the place I live is not a major city therefore it’s difficult to find anyone to meet up with. If you live in one of the big cities around the world it’ll be good for you
Add comment March 30th, 2008
Working full time and running a business part time
Currently I work full time 37+ hours a week in a computing job and also run a business part time making websites. So what are the pros and cons of working in this way?
Pros:
- You get a regular salary from your job
- You can re-invest anything you make from your business as you don’t need to live off the profits
- You get pensions (if your employer pays into them) etc but really these aren’t really worth much unless you work for a long time (30+ years or something).
- Sick pay – if your sick you get paid from work
- You’re not solely reliant on your job for income.
- In your business you control everything
- What you learn at work can help your business and vice versa.
Cons:
- Not much spare time. Currently I get up at 6:50 am, go to work then finish work at around 5 o’clock. It takes me an hour to travel home. I grab something to eat then work for a few hours on my sites. On weekends I tend to work on my sites as well. This leaves me pretty tired.
- Not enough time to spend on your business. It’s hard to compete with other full time businesses when you are only working part time.
- Stress – you get it from work and also when you go home from your business for example the other week I found that all my servers were down and I needed to sort it out as soon as I got home even though I’d had a tough day at work.
- At work you tend to be a small part of everything
In summary I think that this is the best way to grow your business until it’s at a point where you’re making more than your full time job and need to quit it to grow your business further.
3 comments February 3rd, 2008
Get a new keyboard and mouse to improve your comfort and efficiency
In the work environment and at home a lot of people give little thought to their keyboard and mouse even though they use them most of the time. Most people buy a cheap keyboard and mouse for around £10-£15($20-$30) or just keep the one supplied with the computer.
This seems a bit stupid if you work on the computer doing coding/graphic or web work because a good keyboard and mouse can save you a lot of time and also increase your comfort levels.
The mouse that I use is the Logitech Mx Revolution, it has a scrolling feature that makes going through forums and through pages very easy it also has a search button that makes it quick to search for something, just highlight the text and click the search button. It also has a document flip button and that easily helps you to flip through open programs. It also has backwards and forward buttons. The Logitech keyboard I use saves me a lot of time it has zoom in and out buttons vol and media player control and also programmable keys. See the links below:
Add comment December 31st, 2007
cobian backup software
My hard drive failed so it’s set me back a bit. I’ve installed the cobian backup software to help me make backups automatically in the future you can get it for free at www.cobian.se .
2 comments November 25th, 2007
Testing your site with lots of browsers
Testing your website with lots of different browsers can be a pain. I usually just test my sites in Firefox and IE 6.0 but I’ve Recently found a site www.browsershots.org that allows you to take screen shots in lots of different browsers. Check it out.
Add comment November 3rd, 2007
