October 28th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Liz Jamieson
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Some time ago I wrote a hubpage describing all the skills I thought a person would need to become a freelance web developer. I thought I’d put add this hubpage to the blog.
You may not agree with me, let’s face it the number of skills you could include is enormous – I guess my list is about the minimum.
My ideas are also directed at people who want to understand what they are doing rather than using tools that do all the work for you.
These tools are OK, but you can end up generating sites you can’t fix when they go wrong if you rely on them too much.
Posted in: Web Design
Tags: HTML, web design skills
October 27th, 2008 / Comments Off / by Liz Jamieson
To grab attention without using animation, you can use a post-it notes used to highlight a message on your home page.
You could draw your own post-it graphic by following a photoshop tutorial . . .
. . . Or you could generate a post-it note using a free web site set up for the purpose.
Posted in: Graphics, Layout, Web 2.0
Tags: post-it notes
October 24th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Liz Jamieson
I’ve looked around for a free online tool to manage tasks, that is truly free.
There are some great ones that have a monthly subscription attached, but I think they are too expensive.
5pm comes to mind. I love, love love it but don’t want to pay almost $50 per month for the number of projects I’d need.
I don’t know if SantexQ are going to start charging anytime soon, but if they do I hope their subscriptions are lower cost. In the meantime they offering task management free.
Currently unlimited projects and tasks are allowed for zero cost.
Posted in: In the office, Tools
Tags: task management
October 23rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Liz Jamieson
Yes – one more twittersome tool to help you get the most out of Twitter.
Ever wondered who follows you out of the people you are following? Here’s something that will tell you.
Just got to lessfriends.com and enter your Twitter details.
You’ll get a long list of all the people you follow, the people that follow you and the ones who fall into both categories.
OK – we know this is just linkbait for the company that wrote it. They do accounting and project management services, and web design.
But more power to them.
Posted in: Social Media
Tags: twitter
October 22nd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Liz Jamieson
Here is a great introductory tutorial to help you learn about the finer points of CSS positioning. It’s the best explanation I’ve seen of the concept.
It takes you in 10 steps through the use of, and the difference between static, relative and absolute positioning.
If you’ve struggled to do CSS layouts, this will probably solve all your problems.
Posted in: CSS
Tags: CSS
