How do you know when it’s time to build a new website? Most people wait until their current site stops working, but to me it’s like waiting for the engine on your car to seize before getting an oil change, or waiting to get really sick before going to a doctor. Because we understand the [...]
Can I have that for less? Part Two
In Part One of “can I have that for less?” we explored some of the concepts behind the vendor-client relationship of web development services and how expectations can clash with reality when things aren’t spelled out in advance.
In this part, we’re going to discuss some of the canned and affordable options available for non-existent and [...]
Can I have that for less please?
There are no hard and fast rules for what a thing on the web should cost. For instance, you can get a logo from 19dollarlogos.com starting at $19.00, yet Pepsi recently paid hundreds of millions for their new logo design (read the full 27 page brief explaining how Pepsi is at the center of the [...]
Client Profile – Leo Sawicki
Last week we completed a project for Leo Sawicki, Author and Life Management Consultant. Leo has worked both as a children’s author, publishing books such as Anytime and Anywhere Stories; and working in business and community development with aboriginal communities and institutions across Canada.
The scope of the project was to create a web site for [...]
Google Image Search is not a Repository – Where to Find Rights Free Images
It’s not all business all the time. It’s mostly business around here at Hosting Nation but when you’ve been at it all day, sometimes you need to unwind with something light and funny.
The sites I browse when I’m kicking back and defragging range in theme and content though most of them are funny in one [...]
How Not to Build and Market Your Website
Yep, that’s right – I said how NOT to build your website. You’ve probably all read dozens of posts, articles, columns and even other blogs on what you should do to sign and market your site on the web.
Well, on webpagesthatsuck.com I found a striking example of a site that’s doing essentially everything wrong. Wrong [...]
Best of the Web, July 2009
I spend a lot of time not just working on our own websites and projects, but also looking at what the current trends are in design, development, programming and marketing. There’s a definite rift between what has buzz, what the early adopters have grokked on to and what has actually made the effective transition to [...]
Becoming a Professional Freelance Designer
So you want to be a freelance designer? Why wouldn’t you. As a freelancer you get all the glory. You set your own hours and your own rates. There’s finally light at the end of the tunnel, and the light is so very bright.
To be a freelancer is to sleep til 10am, to work til [...]
Up and at ‘em Adam’s App
I remember the day we came up with the name for our new application. It was after quite a few rounds of me asking our developer “Well, what exactly does it do? Can you sum it up in 20 words or less?”. He would shake his head slowly and suggest that summarizing such things lived [...]
Happy Halloween from Hosting Nation
Surfing the web is especially fun this time of year. Halloween is my favorite fall holiday (over and above the Thanksgiving Turkeys and the November Remembrances).
For me, and I imagine for many of us, Halloween is the last hurrah before jumping head first into the commercial cacophony of the Christmas Holidays. It’s also a time [...]