As I said previously, There are a couple of ways to go when you go with web hosting.  The true do-it-yourselfer might want to think about installing you’re own web server and hosting your website yourself.  However, most of you will take a more orthodox end-user route and host your website with somebody else. You can find companies that will host your site for free. Traditionally, the primary...

World Standards Day – October 14, 2009 Of course, all web developers know IP stands for Internet Protocol, FTP is File Transfer Protocol and SNMP is Simple Network Mail Protocol.  But, what about the standards authority alphabet soup? Sure, you know W3C. But IANA (a personal favorite) or NSSN or ICANN? Here’s a list. Learn half of it and you’ll really impress your clients. Sometimes...

UPDATE March 3, 2010 – This page from anidan.design has lots of interesting and useful articles! Definitely worth checking out. Here’s a great resource! It’s a list of specialized freelancing blogs aimed at various web disciplines. The original list is much longer, but I only grabbed the sections I thought would be appropriate for my readers. To see the rest, follow the link at the...

For whatever reason, there are a lot of people who think the internet, and their participation in it, should be free. This is a huge problem for those of us who try to make a living providing the valuable service of creating websites. One of the main reasons I started this blog is to give you, the web professional, some insight on how to survive in this business. This is such a great article, I wanted...