Your watch isn’t broken. Wednesday came and went without the regular Best Practices post. Normally I’ll think about ideas during the week, but not start writing the post until Tuesday or Wednesday. In most cases, there’s no problem with that system. Which brings me to the topic of this post: unplanned diminished capacity. Any freelancer [...]
I had a problem come up with two of my clients today. They took code that I had designed on a server running PHP 4.2.2 and moved it to a server running PHP 5.0+. Here’s an example of the type of code I had written. <? echo $_REQUEST[emailaddress] ?> This code displays the value the [...]
The classic line we expect to hear from high-maintenance actors is, “What’s my motivation?” It’s a valid question. How is the actor supposed to provide consistent inflection and body language without an understanding of what their character is thinking? The actor can always just read the lines, but the result probably won’t be the “perfect [...]
Shown below is the theme that was unveiled when this post was written. Unless you’re reading this on your RSS feed, you might be scratching your head and wondering where you are. This is still the blog where I discuss the best practices I’ve discovered (and am still discovering) as an independent web designer and [...]
Obviously an important part of running a successful business is to provide a service that people want. If no one is willing to pay for your work, then you have a hobby, not a business. But revenue aside, there’s a lot to be said for a hobby. If you’re like most freelancers, then web design [...]
