If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!To web developers who are not also web designers, it might seem that the latter have it easier in terms of promoting themselves online. Their work is visual, and can be demonstrated fairly easily? So what can freelance web developers [...]
In the past couple of years, it seems that an incredible number of web design and development sites have popped up, and many of them regularly run resource lists. Here’s a look at some of what’s been published recently.
[1.] Hongkiat offers a collection of links to 100 grunge and abstract fonts from Dafont, Fontspace and [...]
In the past decade, it seems that more people have turned to becoming web developers without a formal education in Computer Science. And why not? It can be a lucrative career. If you learn the basics and do your coding from a structured approach, it doesn’t have be too hard, nor do you have [...]
Here’s a bit of advice for you relatively new developers, coders, programmers or whatever you call yourselves at the moment: keep your skills up. Learn a new language whenever possible. Not doing so while you’re able to is one of the worst career mistakes you can make. It’s obvious to me NOW that there will [...]
You often see loads of blog posts listing all kinds of free Photoshop brushes. Well Noupe has a list of links leading to no less than 1,000 brushes for Gimp, the free, multi-platform, Open Source alternative to Photoshop.
Trying to build up your freelance client base? Here are some ways to market portfolio both online and [...]
According to a recent Nettuts article, one of the most sought after web development skills is Framework knowledge. For example, Rails, Django, CakePHP and others. Other skills that are up near the top of the list are the ability to build Custom CMS themes and to develop CMS plugins or do custom coding. Now while [...]
The previous post discussed how you can list all the Post pages of a WordPress installation. The result is a list of links by post title. But if you are migrating a site between platforms, it’s a good idea to have a plain catalog of all URLs on your site. Here’s how you do that [...]
In the post Moving Website Platforms, I touched on how important it is to catalog the URLs of your website if you are planning on migrating platforms. If you are running a blog on WordPress there’s a fairly simple way to produce a list of “posts”. (Let’s ignore WP “pages” for now.)
The general principle is [...]
Every once in a while you’ll have a website created on a certain CMS or blog platform that you want/ need to move to another CMS or platform. For most people working online, this probably doesn’t happen too often, but when it does, you want to be prepared before you start the move process.
Since what’s [...]
I have hired many programmers, and I have been hired for many freelance programming jobs, and in all of them, I find people trying to work in a way to develop their own code. They feel like it would take too much effort to change an open source application to suit their needs, or that [...]