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Must have tools for scheduling website maintenance.
What are the absolute essentials for scheduling maintenance for your website?
The Small Business Website Guide for Business Owners
Have you ever started reading a How To guide for websites, only to discover that you feel like you’re reading a foreign language? This is for you.
How to Make a Website From Scratch (MP3 & PDF)
Learn the way that websites work (and how to put one together).
If you just can’t get your head around the technical aspect, but you really need to get one online – this is the answer.
The number one question I receive from people is “how do I get my website set up?”
Even a quick search on Twitter shows the dire need for an answer:
Finally, an answer to the question “How do I make a website?”
I have put together the ultimate beginner’s guide to understanding how websites work and how to get one up and running in under 20 minutes.
This includes a 17 minute long MP3 and a PDF guide in which I walk you through:
Understanding how websites work
Explaining how the elements of a website come together
Understanding what open-source is
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Facebook Status RSS feed: How to find it, and what to do with it
Today, I discovered Wordle. It’s this neat app that allows you to create beautiful word clouds using custom text input, an RSS feed, or your Delicious account. Well, I wanted to input my Facebook status feed, but alas – I could not find it!
After a little research, I finally found a useful post about finding your Facebook Status RSS feed at Tech Life Web, and I wanted to share my findings with you guys.
*** UPDATE 6/22/2010: Thanks to Shirish, I have learned that this only works if you’re a long time Facebook user. If these instructions aren’t working for you, it may be because you were late to the party!
*** UPDATE 6/24/2011: It would appear there’s some Facebook apps available to provide this functionality if you search for them. Anyone want to … Read More »
Must-have tools for the freelance web designer (PC and Mac)
Now that I have been at the freelance web-design business for the last several years, I have had some experience with a variety different programs. Some of them are very expensive, others are free. Here I have tried to make it easy for you and compiled a list with links to their respective locations:
Design & Image Editing:
Adobe Photoshop – $649 or $999 for the extended version
Photoshop is the most expensive program you need- but you will want this piece of software. There are a lot of different image editing tool but this is the industry standard. Sometimes you can get a student discount, or even get your company to buy it for you.
Text/Code Editing:
Mac
TextWrangler – Free: This is a great piece of software for writing your code if you don’t want to spend any money.
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