Thoughts, viewpoints and general rambling.
Web design service charges and the price of a loaf! I am trying to decide the best price to charge for web design services, and it occurred to me that I’m a little out of the loop in general. My wife does the shopping while I sit in front of a screen all day, so […]
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Psychology and the true cost of web design This is where, usually, marketing meets psychological manipulation. You know what I’m talking about. Large, carefully chosen photos that make you desire or crave the product. Time-limited introductory offers (that never end) to draw you in. The closing move is to get you to contact them. Fun
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Spaghetti code Telling it how it is! You see, in this world, there are two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Unfortunately, web design is more like 500 shades of grey than classic spaghetti westerns’ clean-cut black and white.
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Web servers and hosting 101 This one’s a mess to untangle, but I’ll try to simplify it. Shared hosting: This is the last train home on a Saturday night, after a big football match, with rival fans mixed with happy drunks, packed in like sardines. It’s cheap, I’ll give you that, but it assumes all
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SEO is just about common sense Alas, as Franois-Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire) famously said, “Common sense is not so common.” I’m not selling myself as an expert here; I don’t, for instance, enthuse about keywords. However, I’ve been around at least as long as Google. I watched them start, grow, evolve, and change (not always
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Is your web site’s design driving customers away? It’s bad to slide! This will be a long ramble as I was eating my breakfast, mind idling away, and it centered on something I’d recently read: “17% of visitors will leave a site if it has a slider”. One poll, by GTMatrix, suggested that over 50%
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Search Engine Optimisation rules are (mostly) not static SEO is a moving target, always has been, though some things became core directives. For instance, there was a time when the recommendation was “use keywords in your domain name for better ranking on Google”. I’ve watched Google since they started grubbing for web developers to embed
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Swotting at Ackadia I’m not presently running this (or any other site) as a business, but I’m thinking about it, again. Or at least going through the motions, again. Still, I was reading an article on how to Grow Your Business with a SWOT Analysis and it got me thinking. As a side note, I’d
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