How Not to Start a Website



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Are you planning on making your first website? Then please don't do it this way !

  1. Buy yourself a web editing tool like Dreamweaver, Frontpage -cost: $150
  2. Get a web hosting provider that supports 100G storage, SQL database, PHP, and anything else you can think of.-- cost: $100
  3. Find out that Dreamweaver isn't so easy after all so you buy a book. cost: $30
  4. Still can't get the hang of it so you go on a course --cost: $300.
  5. Decide you need to learn HTML so you buy another book --cost: $10
  6. Now your really getting going and you start making the website.
  7. After a few weeks you have written a few pages but you're having a few doubts as it really isn't as easy as you though it would be at the start.
  8. You manage to get the pages on the web- You're really proud!
  9. You've submitted the site to the 2,500 search engines- it only cost $30 but the nice ad said that's all you need to do!
  10. A few weeks go past and  no one visits you're site. You try to find yourself in the search engines but no luck. You're upset!
  11. You see an ad promising to get you on the top page in Google and Yahoo only $200. That's just what you need- You're happy again!
  12. The nice  man at the SEO company starts talking to you about 'keywords' and 'optimization' and 'SERPs' and you get a nice warm glow. But you're not really sure what it's all about and it's starting to give you a headache anyway. Not to worry - he knows what he's doing!
  13. He tells you it's no problem he'll get you on the first page in Google, Yahoo and MSN for the following searches.
    'belly button jewellery', 'Gold plated belly button jewellery' etc.
  14. But you want to be found for --jewellery. Because that's what you sell.
  15. He says that's not possible and you become angry!
  16. You've had enough of this website nonsense- It doesn't work anyway!
  17. But then you get a nice email from someone- don't know him though- he can get you 1000s of visitors. Now you're in business! It's a bit expensive but not to worry you've come this far!
  18. Just as the ad said, the visitors start coming- This web stuff is easy! Now you're smiling.
  19. Oh! you think- no one is buying- Now you're upset again.
  20.  But wait- You remember that other email that came the other day about emailing you're ad to millions of people.........................




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Name the tool that has given you the biggest productivity gain in the last 1.5 years

Okay, one of the reasons why posting has been light on this blog is because we have been busy. My wife and I have also had our first child (well, two years ago) and to be honest, our work has become less innovative in terms of doing cool new things and more iterative, as in we have been applying a lot of the cool things we learned and developed over the last few years.

This happened because we changed our business model from agency style to "plug us into your operations and we will be your dev crew" style.

Anyways, every once in a while we like to take stock and see where we may be able to gain some time so as to try and work in our next direction or new model, whatever that may be. The applications that we use are often places where we can find cool new stuff and gain time.

What things have you done to find extra time? Please, share below!

Here are three things that, in the last year point five have helped us find some extra time.

  1. Navicat: we moved all of the bits of PHPmyAdmin accesses over to navicat at about the end of 2007 and this was an excellent move. Tonnes of time gained.
  2. TeamViewer: for quick support and desktop sharing with remote staff.
  3. Buying a netbook and using Maxivista and Ultramon: adds two new monitors to my existing setup. I now have a 4 monitor two computer setup which allows me to not only have two more monitors but I can also have open two versions of many of the apps that I use (useful for multitasking with teams etc.)
  4. Moving simpler client sites to WordPress: now that it has one step upgrades and almost doesn't require the use of an FTP client to get up and running on some hosts.
  5. Dictation Software: I have been using Dragon Naturally Speaking for writing some course and blog materiel lately (pre-writing for my new blog). I find this is saving me a load of time and I am getting more written then ever before.

So what solution have you implemented lately to buy you some extra time?



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