I’d like to discuss how to properly deal with your clients, setting expectations and holding everyone accountable. Defining the Rolls and Creating Goals During your initial meeting with the client, after they’ve agreed to hire you, you need to define everyone’s role in the project. You should create a spreadsheet with deliverables, and assign a [...]
Savvy Internet users are quickly becoming interested in creating their own paid membership websites. Since the Internet has become more and more useful to society-from being a reliable source of information to one of the major providers of entertainment, the Internet, nowadays, is as widely used as the television. Everywhere, you would not find a [...]
Find out how search engine optimization and internet marketing can help your company reach new customers online like never before. The purpose of search engine optimization is to increase web site traffic by obtaining quality results within the most used search engines. In simple terms, search engine optimization is making a Web site generate traffic [...]
Once you are started with your own website, you need to understand how It’s faring. You need to know whether it is able to attract a good number of visitors, or is very rarely visited by people. Keeping a tab on the proceedings of your website becomes utmost important when you are doing business online. [...]
Every day, thousands of businesses like yours make the same critical mistakes when outsourcing their software or web development. Mistake #1: Assuming that the outsource company you are working with can read your mind. Most outsource vendors expect complete requirements before they start the work, and will charge you for every additional change, regardless of [...]
What is a self managed/self organizing team? What is mentioned here may not be an industry standard description. This is actually the end result of my experiment in setting a self managed team. The team members choose and plan the task with minimum support from line manager. Tasks were completed without follow up and with [...]
As both an active project manager and project management trainer, I often get asked whether the project management best practices that are applicable for large projects can be applied on smaller projects. This is a really important question and one which all project managers must face up to when managing small projects. Focusing on project [...]
Today’s Links to Know are a mostly related selection, some even come from the same place. Today, we’ll show you a a new PNG fix for IE6, a Context Menu plugin for jqueryand a Lightweight rounded corners script.
Back in July, Yahoo! started offering the BOSS service, an open search platform. Using the BOSS API, developers have access to Yahoo’s entire search index to create custom search engines. The goal with BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is simple — foster innovation in the search landscape. As anyone who follows the search industry [...]
In a time of economic crisis, web developers and freelancers everywhere have started chewing their fingernails. However, no matter how bad the economy worsens, there will always be work in certain booming fields of web development.
As the moderator of the Freelance Switch job board, there are certain types of jobs that are constantly in demand. Here are the 10 skills that are or will be in highest demand for developers. If you are proficient in these skills, you’ll be in a great position to find work and weather any economic downturn.
