Sunday, October 26, 2008
Are we fed up with the anti Vista parade yet?
"Good Morning PC" "Oh, good morning Mac" "What are you doing PC?" "I'm counting all of the open source and freeware applications that can be used on a Mac" "How is it going so far PC?" "I've found a few, but unfortunately they are mostly useless, outdated or very limited in functionality" "Let's not...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Don't you hate it when . . . .
A few days ago I noticed a job posted in one of the webmaster forums I belong to for the installation of an ecommerce store. The individual asking to have the work done wasn't really sure of his needs or what type of shopping cart software he wanted to use. We went back and forth in dialog a fair...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
If I only had some talent . . .
Now I have a product that is by all measures a legitimate commercial offering that in a technical sense can compete with the best in its class. Aesthetics are a different matter however, I couldn't produce professional looking web graphics to save my life. Utilizing only the best practices as I...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sometimes you have to rethink what you are doing
One of the things that has cut deeply into the profits of my template project has been pre-sales questions. I have spent far too mush time dealing with persons with unrealistic expectations or haven't done any research whatsoever. A great number of these people are clueless, technically inept and...
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Monday, October 13, 2008
I hurt my brain today - but it hurts real good
Awhile back I began an all consuming project of making my own web template for osCommerce. It has been quite an adventure, I've made a few bucks and learned a whole lot in the time I have been putting my project together. One problem I ran into was that a lot of what needed to be done was not...
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Putting a paper catalog online with blogging software
An application that comes up quite often in the world of web contracting is a request to put an existing paper catalog online. There are some companies that specialize in it and if your name is Warren Buffet, you may be able to afford it but for the rest of the world, a cost effective solution is...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Another day, another ecommerce store
My little ecommerce template project has become extremely busy with multiple daily inquiries and a number of sales lined up. This is typical of September, many a wannabe online seller has dreams of cashing in on the upcoming Christmas season. For the time being, I'm going with the flow, still...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
A neat free tool for ripping CDs
As I finish off what is turning out to be a masterpiece of an ecommerce store using my osCommerce template: HERE... I ran into an issue where my client needed music sample tracks in the listings. She had most of them but was missing some. As a licensed reseller, getting what she needed from her...
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Building in efficiencies to your sales process
One thing that I put off for far too long was writing a thread in my web forum for pre-sales questions. An incident last evening with an online enquiry, finally prompted me to get around to it. The premise is simple enough. To make money as a contractor, you must complete as many jobs as possible in...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Getting the deadbeats to pay up
In any contracting situation, especially in the cybor world where you are most times dealing with people you have and will never meet in person, being stiffed for your final fee is inevitable. I use the term "final fee" because it is assumed that a traditional contractor payment arrangement is...
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