March 2010
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Making yourself heard
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of having a web site is attracting people your pages. Consider the Internet as a massive market, by which I mean the kind with stalls covered in tarpaulins with the stall owners standing behind trellis tables proffering their wares and calling out to passing trade. The din of the crowd and voices of other vendors become a background noise to the passersby and...
Small business and the web
During the mid to late 1990s the world was abuzz with the potential that the Internet represented for the generation of wealth. Many people saw opportunity in charging people to access the web, use services on the web and make purchases on the web. As the ideas became more ridiculous and the sums of money exchanged for .com companies became more extravagant the bubble grew bigger and bigger. In...
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Hello world!
The old standard for programmers seems somewhat trite when writing a blog post.
It has become a cliché for in programming books and guides that the first program that readers are instructed to write is “Hello World”. This is often as far as many people get because, let’s be honest, learning to code is very hard and not only that, but who has the time to sit down and pour for...