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Dealing with Horror Clients if You’re a Freelance Web Designer or Writer

August 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Freelancing

I just read an interesting post at CharfishDesign’s blog on Ways you can recognise the client from hell. It covered some warning phrases that any freelancer should be aware of when they hear it coming from a client. These warning phrases include ones like “I don’t care”, “It’s up to you”, “You can do anything [...]

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Product Review Sites to be Produced by First Wave Media

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Product Reviews

Product review sites have been popular on the web for many years. If you do a search for product reviews at Google it will return 378 million results. That’s a lot of product reviews online. If you put that same search term in quotations for an exact phrase search you still get 62.5 million results. [...]

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Using Correct Fonts on Blogs Makes Difference

July 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blogging

I wasn’t happy with the default fonts used by the Cutline WordPress Theme. They were the Times New Roman family of fonts. This style is very popular with printed reading material. However online it seems harder to read. The popular font used online for good readibility is the Arial family of fonts. And that is [...]

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Testing a New WordPress Plugin called Twitter Tools

July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging, What's New

Just testing a new plugin for my blog called Twitter Tools by Alex King. You can see it in operation in the right hand sidebar. I chose it because it not only post my latest Twitter updates in the sidebar, but I can also submit my Tweet from the sidebar, or Tweet a new blog [...]

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New Domains for Niche Blog Sites

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Affiliate Marketing, CPA, Domain Parking, PPC, What's New

Bought six new dot com domains for our new WordPress blogs. They cover a number of different markets for the purpose of our marketing activities. They will be real sites with real posts. There will be offers, products, and advertising on these sites to monetise their traffic. They will also include landing pages for Pay [...]

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New Website in Two Minutes

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments · What's New

Just like the 2 Minute Noodles my kids like to eat, you can have a website up and running in 2 minutes too. Gone are the days of hard coded html web pages. Now its far easier and quicker to setup blogs for our main sites. I’ve personally been using WordPress with their self hosted [...]

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