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Branding your Web Design Business
In this session I go over what you need to do in terms of creating a brand for your web design business. If you don’t what I mean by ‘branding’, I’m just talking about the corporate identity.So we are talking about your business website, business cards etc… Besides, pointing out what you need to do, I also get into some details as to how you might go about doing it. As usual, I take a simple practical approach based on my 17-18 years experience in small business.
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Do you need web design school?
This is the first of a new series of podcast that I am creating called: ‘Ask a web nerd.’ Not the greatest title, but I hope it tells something about this series; I will be answering common questions put to me by people everyday. Questions about anything regarding web design, web programming, getting into the web design game etc … In this podcast, I will answer a common question put to me every so often:
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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!
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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
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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
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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’.
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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 […]
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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.