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Creating Your Own HTML Email Templates in Outlook
If you want HTML Emails in Outlook to look the way YOU want, and your designing them in DreamWeaver - Heres How: Step 1 When in Outlook (Pro), Go to the Tool | Options Menu. Step 2 Click on the Mail Format Tab along the top of the current...
Hiring Professionals: 5 Things to Look For
So you've decided that it might be best to leave web design to
the professionals, have you? Well, the unfortunate thing about
web design professionals is that not all of them are exactly
professional. Some of them are working from wildly out of...
How To Boost Traffic To Your Blog: SEO for Bloggers
Let search engine index your blog and let people come to your fresh blog. Though you're in World Wide Web, nobody knows you're there. You need to pull kindly those who are potentially waiting for you but don't know where your are. This objective is...
HTML : A way to make your site speaks
If you happened to be a beginner of creating website, then learn
HTML.. A lot of resources on the net where you can learn to
create your site easily.
www.Webmonkey.com
Step by step tutorial from simple HTML to advance...
Introduction To Web Technologies
There are literally hundreds of difficult technologies available to the webmaster. Making proper use of these technologies allows the creation of maintainable, efficient and useful web sites. For example, using SSI (server side includes) or CSS...
Learning HTML & HTML Editors
Learning HTML & HTML Editors by Kalina of Affordable Web Design
I hold a firm belief that all webmasters should practice validating their code, so all advice I give in this site will be centered around that belief.
If you'd like to...
Qu'est-ce que l'OMR?
<h2>Qu'est-ce que l'OMR?</h2> L'Optimisation du placement dans les Moteurs de Recherche ou OMR est une série d'activités entreprises dans le but d'améliorer le classement d'un site Web lors de l'utilisation d'un moteur de recherche tel...
Score BIG With The Search Engines - Maximising Your Site's Potential
I often get asked, "How do I improve my site's performance in the search engine's." or "I have a small budget, how can I compete with the larger sites." It can seem daunting when you type in your key search term and you see Google returning...
The True Meaning of Freeware
The vast majority of us will have, at some point, had freeware games or applications installed on our systems. If you’ve played an online Java or Flash based game, you’ve used freeware. In a very real way the Internet itself is freeware, a...
Top 5 DVD Tools You Can Pick Up For Pennies
1. Pocket DVD Wizard - Handheld Owners Rejoice! www.deprice.com/pocketdvdwizard.htm The Pocket DVD Wizard allows you to make backup copies of your personal DVDs, Mpeg, Avi and DivX® video and then play them on your Windows Mobile™ Pocket PC or...
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"I'm just me" - An Overview of an Web er.. Designer, Developer, Consultant and Friend.
I am going to give you a breakdown of my ... er ... work ... playtime .... income ....
I'm a UK based Web Designer, Web Developer, Internet Consultant. I build websites, content management systems and internet solutions for anybody who can afford me. I am a prostitute!! Yes! A prostitute - I use my website to sell my wares and hope that the client enjoys the result if they decide to pick me up. I like to think of myself as giving good head to a "web enabled userbase". Apparently prostitution is the "oldest trade". Well if that's so then I've been doing the same as long at the internet has been available to home users here in the UK.
It's been nearly 8 years since I first logged on to the internet from my home. Prior to that I'd used gopher servers via mdx.ac.uk as a student in the early 90's. Prior to that BBS's were fun. I now find myself working from home as a kind of web dogsbody. Just me, four cats, 2 horses, my son and my amazing partner down here on a 6 acre smallholding in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. I have several titles:
Web Designer
I use this if a client needs me to make images to make their site "pretty". Web design has been written about by the Guru's in their ivory mansions. At the end of the day what is it? It's being able to realise the clients vision without resorting to cheesy backgrounds and blinking text. Keep it nice and clean.
If your a web designer with a difficult client.. do not do what they want!! Just tell them what they should do or drop them. The previous statement depends on two things:
How much do you KNOW your right?
How much are they're PAYING you?
Most of us now know what is good design..
If your lost - read some Chomsky : )
Web Developer
This one is for websites that need "coding" - y'know...
PHP, ASP, SQL etc. A web designer puts good clean concepts into an xhtml - css layout which works (HTML is bunk). A web developer makes the content within this design actually "do stuff". I started out making web sites "do stuff" in late 2000. I now make websites do "lots of stuff".
A web developer does stuff which allows users to do stuff. A web designer allows users to read the stuff the web developer does.
Internet Consultant
A nice one this - it covers both of the above yet also allows me to do the following.. It also looks good on a business card.
Beware folk who say that they are "Internet Consultants" who do not also claim to be at least one of the others on this page. They are probably con men.
Web Guru
This is a found role. I can teach! I have ideas!
"Hmm, I do that also" - what makes you special? That's what your thinking.
I don't need anyone to show me how to use my new fangled CMS (that's "Content Management System"). How to send email, use Adwords, get cash from Adsense. Guru - that's just a made up term..
This title come through experience - people are telling me that I'm a Guru. I myself am holding judgemental on this.
I have always been a "communicator"
Friend
I have lots of clients. Some are just one offs. The small guest house that needs a simple three page website and an email account - others are clients that need constant modifications to their portal or ecommerce website. I try to get on with them all. Some have become friends.
About the Author
Andrew Mottershead is a web developer providing his freelance services to anyone who needs his talents . If he's too busy he has loads of freelance mates who may be able to help. His website is www.mindstream.co.uk - which is updated when he gets time.
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