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Aug 8th, 2007

What’s Holding You Back?

When I look at the comments people have left on this site, it seems like a lot of readers are where I was a little over a year ago. You have a job in a cublicle somewhere that’s not very fulfilling. Part of you really likes the idea of striking out on your own and [...]

Jan 10th, 2007

Blog Monetization Ahoy

Update: As of 6/23/2008 I have removed the Google ads. I learned the things that I set out to learn from using them. There was no noticeable financial gain from using them, so I just didn’t both when I updated the site. I made a decision this week to add Google ads to the blog. [...]

Nov 7th, 2006

Does This WordPress Theme Make My Hips Look Fat?

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 [...]

Aug 22nd, 2006

Carnival of the Web #3

The Future of the Web has released edition #3 of Carnival of the Web. Whatever Jesse’s criteria are for including a post, I made the cut again with Leaving an Audit Trail In Your Database. There’s quite a bit this month about JavaScript, both technical tips and some big picture philosophy on how it should [...]

Aug 14th, 2006

Feed Change

Up until this morning, the feed for this blog was in “summary” mode. I hadn’t put much thought into how the feed was being sent out. Once I did, I couldn’t think of a good reason not to offer the full feed for anyone who wanted to view the posts in their entirety via their [...]

Aug 9th, 2006

Posting Schedule Update

So for the second week in a row, I’m late getting my Wednesday post up. To make things worse, this post doesn’t even cover a topic on running a web design business… at least not anyone’s web design business but mine. After what seems like a lifetime of splitting my time between my freelance work [...]

Jul 24th, 2006

Carnival of the Web #2

Jesse over at The Future of the Web has started up a blog carnival for topics of interest to web professionals. I’m impressed with the original thought behind the posts that appear in the latest edition of Carnival of the Web. I’m flattered that one of my posts, Pricing Your Web Design Service, is included. [...]

Jul 21st, 2006

How to Get Your Visitors to Create Content for Your Website

Years ago, long before I ever heard of a blog, I wrote this article about allowing your visitors to leave comments on your web pages. Blogging software today makes this as easy as selecting a checkbox, but not too long ago it required an investment of time to set this sort of thing up. This [...]

Jul 3rd, 2006

Posting Frequency

I’ve been thinking a lot the past week about how often I want to make posts. I’ve already come up with a long list of topics that I want to address, and it seems like I come up with a few more every project I work on. So, I’m not worried about running out of [...]

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