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A colleague sent me this email last year, and I wanted to share it with you, because it affects all small business owners: “I’ve purchased some of your material and taken a course on masterminding and still haven’t moved forward with creating a mastermind group. I’ve recognized that part of my problem is moving past my desire for perfectionism and subsequent embarrasement for not “being more busy and effective.” In other words I don’t know how to build a team of people (such as yourself) that can help me till I get into a rhythm. I am often afraid to ask for help because as a Life Coach who has been building a business for over 2 years, I should have done this by now
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Releasing Judgement and Asking For Help
Websites can go down at any time, and unplanned outages tend to happen at the worst possible times. But most professional Web teams try to make their planned outages as non-disruptive as possible. In fact, at many of the companies I’ve built websites for, even updating existing Web pages has to happen at off hours, especially if it’s a major change.
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Poll: When is an acceptable time to take a site down for planned maintenance?
In my previous post , I talked about pitfalls that await someone who leaves a crummy job for an ill-fated business venture. For me, the crummy job was in the publications and publicity office of a fundraising organization. This organization lavished all sorts of loving kindness on its donors, but couldn’t extend the same courtesy to its staff.
Designing Web pages requires more than just a Web editor. To do it well, you’ll probably need a graphics software tool, maybe a video editor, link checker, HTML validator, or something else. What non-editor tools do you use every day
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Who makes the best non-editor software for Web designers?
Ever since Adobe BrowserLab came out in June 2009 I’ve been using it fairly regularly to test my Web designs. I like that it’s integrated directly into Dreamweaver (with an extension) or that I can use it standalone when I’m working in a different editor
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Now you can save your BrowserLab shots locally
Get your site featured on About.com: What is your favorite Web design? More Web design resources and help: Follow me on Twitter Wordless Wednesday – Reader’s Favorite Designs – Brandt’s Candies, Inc
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Wordless Wednesday – Reader’s Favorite Designs – Brandt’s Candies, Inc.
Linux hosting is very prevalent on the Web, but how do you find a good one? If your hosting provider runs on Linux, and you like them, you should nominate them in the Best Linux Web Host category. Only the 5 most popular sites will make it to the voting stage.
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Who has the best Linux Web Hosting service on the Web today?
The auto industry has not been known to stray from “car colors” : black, silver, grey, and white, and the “bold” offerings in shades of red, orange, beige and blue, this year is no different. Though from what I’ve seen, it seems shades of green and yellow-green might be equaling the popularity of the leading secondary car colors of blue, red & beige. Others are reporting that we’ll be seeing more purple and plum this year as well.
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2010 Auto Color Trends
Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours is a good book to get. In 24 lessons, each designed to take an hour or less to complete, you will have a full installation of Drupal up and running. More Help with Drupal Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours by Jesse Feiler How to Install Drupal How to Set Up Multiple Sites to Use Drupal CMS Additional Drupal Links Are You Considering Drupal
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Are You Considering Drupal?
For a while I’ve been wondering how to demo the HTML 5 mark element. It’s quite a funky little element, acting a bit like a highlighter pen, to draw attention to some text. The spec defines it The mark element represents a run of text in one document marked or highlighted for reference purposes, due to its relevance in another context
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Highlight search terms automagically with JavaScript and mark
Science Color-Changing Contacts Monitor Monitor Glucose Levels The University of Western Ontario orangeacid Diabetics may soon be able to wear contact lenses that continuously alert them to variations in their glucose levels by changing colours – replacing the need to routinely draw blood throughout the day.
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Eclectic Color Roundup
Browser competition is hotting up again. Today’s release of Opera 10.5 pre-alpha New Year edition now includes HTML 5 video , is the fastest browser on the planet, and also introduces lots of new CSS properties such as fancy borders, backgrounds and box-shadow like multiple background images, and CSS 2D transforms and transitions
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New Year CSS resolutions
The exciting thing about Web design is that there is always something new to learn. As you may already know, I have pledged to design something every day
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Poll: What are you going to work on in 2010 to improve your Web design skills?
As freelancers we often get caught up in how to find the best clients but once we have them, we don’t consider that some clients may cost us more money than we earn from them. I have had clients who called me every 10 minutes when I was working on a design for them, asking, in effect, “are you done yet?” over and over. I have had clients who wanted to email me with ideas all day long, and if I didn’t respond to them immediately they would complain that I wasn’t taking them seriously.
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Firing a Web Design Client Can Make Good Business Sense
What is your favorite Web design? Follow me on Twitter Wordless Wednesday – Reader’s Favorite Designs – BJs Bariatrics originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 07:20:13
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Wordless Wednesday – Reader’s Favorite Designs – BJs Bariatrics
Typography is more than just choosing what font you should use, you need to know about the spacing around your text and letters as well as how the type will be placed on the page. And there is a lot of jargon surrounding typography
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Before You Can Adjust Your Typography You Need to Know Some Things
Back when I worked at NETCOM, I used to manage the “Homeport” and for Halloween one year I decided to create a “Haunted Homeport”. Random customers would see the same content as the normal homeport, but decked out for Halloween.
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Poll: Do you decorate your website for the holidays?
Snow White Snow, the white stuff, without it there’d be no white christmas, or white blanket, but why do a few clear (translucent) ice crystals bunched together look white at all? We all know the basics of visual color perception; light frequencies travel around and run into things causing them to be absorbed, scattered, or pass right through.
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Why Is Snow White?
As a reminder to “eat your daily recommended dose of color,” Tattfoo Tan, an artist whose work “seeks to find an immediate, direct, and effective way of exploring issues related to the individual in society… Through the employment of multiple forms of media,” developed the Nature Matching System as a public art project in New York City
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Don’t Forget To Take Your Daily Dose Of Color
Mobile devices are getting more and more prevelant this year. In fact, many people who didn’t get an iPhone last year, will probably get one (or some other smartphone) this year. And the first thing that they’ll notice when they go to many of their favorite Web pages is that they look different
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Letting Your Readers Choose Will Not Go Amiss