Killersites Web Design Magazine

Month: July 2008

  • How much money do you need to start a web design business?

    In this session of the Business of Web Design, I look at how much money you need to start a web design business. The great news is, that you don’t need hardly any money at all, so just about everyone can get in!

  • Business of Web Design – Business Types

    In this session I teach you about the business types you can use to form your web design business:

    • Sole proprietorship
    • Partnership
    • Incorporation
    Besides learning about the basic differences between these business types, I get into why you might want to use one type over an another … we look at the advantages and disadvantages of each.

  • Business of Web Design – hardware and software

    The following session addresses a common question put to me many times: what hardware and software do you need to run a web design business? Do you need to upgrade to ‘industrial strength’ tools? I should also mention that I also touch on a few other things too that I know many of you will find interesting.

  • Business of Web Design – Introduction to the course

    Hi, I’ve just uploaded the first session/chapter of the audio-book. You can find a written outline of this session in my original post about the Business of Web Design. … I am repeating the announcement here so that subscribers to the RSS feeds will be notified. Anyway, let me know what you think … both […]

  • Business of Web Design – Introduction

    The ‘Business of Web Design’ is an audio book/podcast series that teaches you how to start and build a home based web design business. I am still currently in the process of fleshing out all the details, but I do have a lot down on paper. I am very close to being ready to record the first (of many) sessions and I expect to have something out this week.

  • Dreamweaver CS4 video tutorial – first look.

    Dreamweaver CS4 has a whole new interface that basically give Dreamweaver the Adobe OWL user interface. In the following video tutorial, I give a guided tour of the new Dreamweaver UI.

  • Dreamweaver CS4 video tutorial – new features

    I just released the first of a few video tutorials on the soon to be released Dreamweaver CS4. CS4 has a few great new features that I have found to be real time savers and are really worth another look: – Workspaces – Code Navigator – Related Files

  • Firefox Add-on Colorzilla Video Tutorial

    Firefox has become much more than a great browser that puts pressure on Microsoft to do a better job with Internet Explorer. Firefox has become a treasure chest of tools that web designers can use in their everyday web design work. A lot of this power comes into Firefox via their plug-in architecture that they call ‘add-ons’.

  • Dreamweaver CS4 Review

    The boys and girls at Adobe recently released a public beta of Dreamweaver CS4 – and so now, I can freely talk about it! I’ve been beta testing Dreamweaver CS4 for a little while now and I’ve been looking forward to spewing my nerd impressions. I had to hold my tongue until Adobe released DW […]

  • ZAC Browser (Zone for Autistic Children)

    ZAC Browser (Zone for Autistic Children) is a browser especially developed for Autistic Children by John LeSieur together with his company People CD Inc. John has a 6 year old Autistic Grandson who had difficulty using a normal browser and acted out aggressively against the PC. So they developed a browser that is walled off […]

  • Is Social Networking a viable business?

    This article is targeted at web designers and business owners who are considering an investment in social networking. Let me just first say, that I have invested in it personally, where I created a video sharing system to help distribute my own content. … I had other ideas beyond that, but I soon discovered that: 1. It would require a huge investment (millions) in capitol to just get it off the ground. 2. That most user contributed videos are just terrible. I deleted most of them.