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Creating scalable backgrounds & dithering gradients is KING! I’ll shed more light on this latter, and why it’s awesome.— Shala
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My Kind of Client
A client comes to me and says, “How much do you charge to perform “x”.
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Me personally, whenever someone asks me right off the back how much something costs, I tend not to take them seriously, and pretty much have it fixed in my mind I will not be completing a project for them. Why? Because when a client is fully committed to completing a project they care about, the first thing they do is explain to me, at high-level, but in good detail what their overall project is about and their requirements. Next they ask me, “Can I see some of your previous work, can you show me some projects similar to mine?” They care about the success of their project and want to know that you are the right person for the job. Not how CHEAP they can get it done for.
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My favorite client to work with are those who are concerned about the cost, but their immediate concern is, can I provide them the quality of work they expect, am I the best person for the job. I prefer clients who demand me to prove to them that I am the best person for the job. That lets me know they are serious and care about their project. They are not just trying to create something, and it “magically” makes them money somehow without any nurturing on their part.
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How I Start A New Business Venture/Project
I like to start off with a business plan to lay everything out. That way I have a clear set goal and a direction spelled out on where I want to go and how to get there. Now, in the case you are having someone help write the business plan, I would go grab that person first and start working on the business plan.
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Next as you start your business plan and finalizing a name, I would start checking into getting a DBA, trademarking, domain names, and so on. The last thing you want to do is build your project/business around a name to find out it is already taken. That can be major blow to your project and its schedule.
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Before rounding up a team, it is also important to start thinking through and creating a communication plan. Start looking into how you are going to keep all the project team members on the same page, hold meetings, share files, etc. What tools are you going to use to manage the project and make sure it stays on schedule.
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Once I take care of the biz stuff, the “i’s” dotted and the “t’s” crossed, I move on to brainstorming on image and design. Normally I am the designer, but in the case I am doing a collaboration, I start scouting for the best designer for the project. Once wireframes (initial sketches or rough design of the site, app, or whatever it is) have been created it is time to start scouting and locking down the best developer(s) for the project.
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Personally, based on my experience, I design first, then code. Coding without a design is coding in the dark. The design helps the developer visually see what all needs to be coded in the first place. Such as text boxes or buttons. Imagine trying to build a house with no blueprint to sketch out what the finished project looks like. Design first then code.
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Also when designing, have the context ready. it is much easier and saves time to create a design around the context (the wording) present on the design. It is bad practice to design and then throw words onto it.
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iMeet A New Online Conferencing Tool
Earlier this morning I was working in Evernote and down where it displays all the different ads, an ad popped up for this thing called iMeet for online collaboration.
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I “Online Collaborate” everyday, it’s my life so I clicked on the ad to see what it was all about. If you have ever used GoTo Meeting or anything like that, it is like that, with a touch more coolness. You can download a free trial for 60 days here at iMeet, and create your very own meeting room. It costs $69, which is $10 more than GoTo Meeting.
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HOW IT MEASURES UP:
- File Sharing: You can email files to your meeting room to share with the people attending your meeting. This cancels having to email a bunch of files to everyone, they are all right there in the room, and members can download them and view them right in the room.
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- Webpage Sharing: Need to show a webpage to the group, you can do that too.
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- Screen Sharing: (downside) it does not allow you to share screens. The file sharing feature takes care of that. Only thing sometimes you may want to direct the attention of members in the meeting to look at something, and guide them with the mouse cursor.
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It is worth checking out, you can get a trial for 60 days and try it out. So far I really like it as an alternative to GoTo Meeting, it is a less cluttered, and the voices do not fade in and out. It even has a hand raising feature so everyone can get heard, and you can easily see who is speaking.
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So I’m playing around with some templates for my portfolio site. I came across this one, and loaded up some of my images to see what it would look like…It looks like it is giving the world the finger LOL.
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WordPress and Dreamweaver
Personally I would only use Dreamweaver to write the HTML (or whichever language you want to code in) for the WordPress site. That way I can hang on to the files of code in case the site ever crashed or whatever. I would also use Dreamweaver to create the CSS files also. But my personal choice of creating a WordPress site is to use the Admin panel. I just copy and paste my code into the various sections such as “Posts”, “Categories”, and so on.
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Of course depending on the type of theme you have or if you are creating one from scratch, you will have to play around a bit with how you create a “page” and the “content” to go on that page.
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For a site I just worked on, the pages of the site (Home, About Us, Contact Us…) was created by creating different posts in the admin panel. The content for the About Us page was actually created by writing the content as a new category for that post (which was actually a page in website terms).
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Honestly WordPress is NOT my first choice for creating a full-blown site. Blogs, yes. People who aren’t tech savvy and want a fairly simple way to create a “site” yes. Out side of that it can be a little challenging personally. Plus, I am just not a fan of WordPress.
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Got reacquainted with #WordPress last week. Great way to build some impressive blogs, still loyal to #Tumblr though. Once they get the server issues flushed out with all the spikes in users, it’ll be smooth sailing again. Still in love with the fact Tumblr hosts my sites for free. And it is flexible to build some really awesome sites, easier than trying to do so using WordPress in my opinion. And that is probably mostly because of how the Tumblr Platform is designed, it is easy to understand. I can create sites in Tumblr using straight HTML if I want, with one HTML file are multiples. With WordPress you build sites by creating posts, comments and categories. It results in having to play around with the site to see the best way to create a page (usually posts), and to create a subpage maybe you create a category. So I just prefer Tumblr’s platform structure over WordPress.
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