It can be slightly frustrating for any professional web designer out there when you are questioned regarding your work and how it is worth what they are paying due to the mass amount of advertisements of applications that suggest you can have a your own website up and running at just the click of a button.
Sure, it is very true that you can indeed have a website of your own live within minutes but those kind of services are far from professional, client’s may not always realise that and the fact they will assume that is how websites are built can be a little annoying to say the least.
From Freewebs to the entire social networking community such as MySpace and Bebo etc, a lot of the popular websites you visit today now let you alter the way your page looks such as layout and colours or in the case of Freewebs you can completely create a site without a single line of code in sight and without paying a penny.
The difference that really matters when it comes to having a site designed professionally is that you get a lot more than just a better looking and better coded website.
Some of the advantages of having a website coded well as opposed to using any kind of visual site builder.
Are your curious to know who some of the biggest Google Adsense earners are? I know that I was interested to know who the best are so I could check out their websites and see how I could possibly earn as much money as these people do. I realized from most of these sites that sites with user generated content usually ranked pretty highly for Google Adsense earners. It seems that these “community” type sites do tend to get a lot of traffic and we all know that traffic = money. So without any more delay here are a list of the top 8 Google Adsense earners as collected from online resources. Please note that this list might be a bit outdated but it has lots of useful information still.
Hey, I was just having a look for something new to try game wise and came across Combat Arms, it really looks nice and as it is open beta it means you can all get your hands on it without it costing you anything.
I am downloading the open beta right now so if you are reading this why not come and join me in this sweet looking online FPS.
Today, the vBulletin team is proud to declare version 3.7.0 to be our stable, supported release.
vBulletin 3.7.0 is available immediately from the Members’ Area to all customers with active vBulletin licenses, and will be offered as the primary choice to those making new purchases.
This release supercedes the 3.6.x branch as our primary product. vBulletin 3.6.x will continue to be maintained for a limited time, as outlined in the end-of-life announcement posted today. We recommend that all customers with active licenses upgrade to vBulletin 3.7.0.
There are many new features and improvements to existing functionality in vBulletin 3.7.0 over vBulletin 3.6.x, most of which have already been described in the release announcements for the various pre-release versions, and in the First Look thread that was posted at the beginning of the beta process, but here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights.
A few days ago, Google launched a new tool called Google Ad Manager to help website publishers manage their direct ads selling more effective.
If you run a content based website or blog, probably your main source of online revenue will depend on selling ads directly to advertisers . Selling ads directly to advertisers does involve management work and sale process and when your ad space were fully sold out, some advertisers may request to reserve an ad space for them if there is an ad space becomes available in future. If you do all the things manually, it will be time consuming and can easily make a mistake. The Google Ad Manager is seem to be created specifically for helping you solve these problems.
It will help manage your direct ads selling more easier and effective; and most importantly provide fast service to your advertisers. The tool is right for you if you want to consistently make money online by selling ads.
I have been wondering for a while now, what are some of the better paying jobs related to the web?
I know that that it depends on how good you are at something and not just what you do so with taking that in to consideration, what are the better jobs when it comes to opportunities with the web.
I am going to do some research to see what pays well but if you are able to post some f your own knowledge that would be great.
I will post an update when I have some more information regarding my question.
Today I finally went for fully dedicated hosting, I have been waiting before making the upgrade for a while now but it is complete now.
If you have any comments to make regarding dedicated servers please feel free to leave a comment.
I thought it was a good time to upgrade for a couple of reasons, one reason is because I am working on building my client base up now for my web hosting and design and the second reason is that my course will be covering server management and such soon so it will be a great help for that I am sure.
Ok folks, I have been taking in all the constructive suggestions to improve my glossy button skills and I think I have got it, here is my second attempt at making a lovely web 2.0 style glossy button.
I hope I did a much better job on this one than in my first attempt, please feel free to drop me a comment and let me know what you think of it.
All comments more than welcome!
P.S Thanks to those who helped me out with this one.
Hey all, I have just made my very first glossy image in Photoshop.
As it is my first attempt I would really appreciate any constructive criticism, I did not actually use any tutorials online or anything, I just made what I saw from all the sweet web 2.0 glossy images we see pretty much everywhere.
I love the glossy look but I need to be careful how I use it as because most of you reading this will know, it is easy to over use a new technique you have learned, I remember when I first started using gradients and oh my I went crazy and it was only when it was pointed out to me that I realised how bad things looked.
Anyway, your comments are really welcome on my glossy button.
