Why does anybody offer online payments? After all, there is a mark-up that takes money out of your pocket on every transaction. Unless it’s the only way you accept payments (which is true for some businesses), you’re complicating your accounting and business processes by adding another special case for how a payment is received.
Today I registered for Startup Weekend. The premise is a bunch of adventurous people get together for a weekend. Provided only with facilities and internet connectivity, we’re given 52 hours to come up with an idea for a web site-based business and get it up and running. All the participants have an ownership share in [...]
One of the most difficult and valuable things to create on a web site is original content that is regularly updated. You can design a stylized layout that will draw visitors in, but if there isn’t relevant content that is regularly updated, visitors aren’t going to stay long. Yet most business owners did not start [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve done a technical post with code snippets, so I thought I’d share a function that I use at least every week. The majority of my work is with custom CMS or the occasional intranet. In both cases I’m regularly dealing with code where the visitor can upload files to [...]
Up until a few months ago, I always started from square one when I needed to create a quote for a client. I’d go through the requirements for the project and estimate how long each item would take. I’d estimate how much time I expected to spend communicating with the client based on what I [...]
