Posts Tagged ‘Development’

5 Ways To Build A Better Website

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

By now you realize how important your website is to promoting and marketing your freelancing business.

Your business website positions you as an authoritative and skilled freelancer in your field. It captures leads into an automated email service or customer relations management software.

It provides information to visitors who may be interested in hiring you. It answers their basic questions, so you don’t have to do it yourself. It acts like your sales representative, working 24/7 to get you more leads and prospects.

But how do you make your website better, so it can accomplish all these things more efficiently and effectively?

That’s what I’m going to tackle in this blog post.

Link: Freelance Folder

9 Ideas For Building Great Websites With Less

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

We all know how laborious web work can be. It’s not a task for the faint hearted and generally requires a year or more of study to really grasp. As our era has progressed we’ve seen brilliant ideas and innovations ushering the online community towards open source and sharing.

The construction of a website has truly evolved into a multi-layered process. You must consider the webpage graphics, coding front-end styles and layout, server hosting, and possibly back-end programming to boot. Developers have been toying with these systems for years and finally we’ve reached a point of interest, but it will be extremely exhausting if you are going to handle all these works completely by yourselves.

Link: HongKiat

How To Embed Practically Anything On Your Blog or Website

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

If you want the hands-down, easiest way to embed practically anything on your blog or website, have we got a tool for you!

The nature of the web is such that sharing and republishing content is common — and often even encouraged. The problem is, we increasingly store bits of our data on various services scattered across the web. Aggregating that content into one centralized personal hub can be time consuming — requiring user to manually copy text and links or upload files and photos — or fiddling with RSS feeds trying to make content automagically appear.

Twitter released a very cool tool to allow publishers to embed tweets in their blog posts, but the process is overly complex for most users, with plugins needed to streamline the process. Why can’t you just paste a link to a Twitter status in a blog post or webpage? It turns out, you can.

Link: Mashable

Web Developer’s Field Guide

Friday, June 10th, 2011

The good folks over at 360 Voltage has put together one of the best collection of links for us web developers out there. Check it out

Link: 360 Voltage