Freelance Project Bidding Resource

phosphor — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:32:01 +0000

There is a new web resource for freelancers similar to Scriptlance that launched yesterday. Gigapxmedia.com offers the design services you would expect from a collective of freelancers but is also geared toward linking professionals up with clients.

Quick and Easy way to get Cryadm working for Cyrus

phosphor — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:04:15 +0000

I have searched the internet for a strait forward answer to my question. How the heck do I get into the Cyrus IMAP server I just installed in order to create a mail box for some new users.

This walk through is to the point, step by step.

THANK YOU MIKE!

Landing Pages for $150

phosphor — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:25:36 +0000

Affordable web design

Web Design Mistakes

phosphor — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:42:25 +0000

http://michellearc.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/common-web-design-mistakes/

This has only one, cross browser issue in IE 7 of’course. Link color stays blue in IE 7.

http://cssraven.com

CSS Raven

phosphor — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:42:06 +0000

This is the best web designer I’ve worked with.

CSS Raven

I found this guy for web design and web development in Las Vegas. He has some of the lowest prices for good web design, and the markup is valid. Most developers who charge very little end up doing a lazy job on the very thing that represents your company.

When it came time to work with him to develop my site he gave me a link to a page on Basecamp, which basically collaboration software for designers. It was so much easier just to upload my content in a text file or Word document rather than find the time to meet with this guy like ten times. I met with him once and he had all kinds of examples to show me, I had my site nailed down in 2 hours or so. If there is something I need to approve or want to see what it looks like while it’s being designed, I can log into the Basecamp site to see it. He sent me emails to update me or ask for a choice to be made for fonts or colors. It was all done remotely.

He walked me through setting up my domain name, which I was clueless about, and even helped me order it. Once the files were done, he installed the site on my domain for me! This guy is awesome for the prices he charges. I had him design a landing page just for now, it cost me $175 for the page and to have him set me up with the hosting.

His work is clean, I’m surprised I got what I did for what he charged me.

My Chat Session With Bluehost.com

phosphor — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:26:56 +0000

I recently noticed Bluehost.com as a fair choice in stats to go with as a web host. I went to their website, and by sight I didn’t know what to think. I started a chat session with the people over there, and this is what I had. (P.S. the people, or at least some of them know what they are doing and have some good things to offer).

CHAT START:

Dalson [3:11:04 AM]: Please type your main domain if you have an account with us. Allow me 3 min between answers and I will be right there with you. Thank you.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:11:04 AM]: These guys look like they want to eat me. I don't have any fava beans, please update your layout.
Dalson [3:11:15 AM]: What do you mean?
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:11:31 AM]: The pic pn your landing page
Dalson [3:12:04 AM]: Hahaha…
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:12:07 AM]: you have a high rating, but your layout needs work
[3:12:20 AM]: that tells me…
Dalson [3:13:13 AM]: Yeah… I guess.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:14:05 AM]: Either you want to scare the hell out of me or you are too busy to really design anything.. ]
[3:14:17 AM]: but…..
[3:14:31 AM]: I generate a high volume of raffic
[3:14:43 AM]: not raffic
[3:14:51 AM]: traf
[3:14:59 AM]: you … yeah
[3:15:03 AM]: qnm
[3:15:10 AM]: anyway
[3:15:39 AM]: how many people are you?
Dalson [3:16:15 AM]: Well… like around 150.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:16:32 AM]: from what time zone in UTC
[3:16:44 AM]: important
Dalson [3:16:45 AM]: GMT -7
[3:16:47 AM]: Utah.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:17:40 AM]: ok, so…. im sorry, who did your site? its like paranoia
Dalson [3:18:03 AM]: I don’t know who built that.
[3:18:09 AM]: I think it’s ugly too.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:18:12 AM]: what can you offer for large storage
Dalson [3:18:31 AM]: But we have a great infra-structure despite of that lousy site.
[3:18:40 AM]: We don’t offer storage services.
[3:18:54 AM]: We offer website hosting services. That’s a little bit different.
[3:19:04 AM]: Let me send you our TOS…
[3:19:11 AM]: Here is a brief list of activities that we do not allow on our servers:

1. File sharing scripts, bit-torrent scripts, proxy scripts, or game servers.
2. Hosting or linking to illegal copies of third-party copyrighted MP3s, videos, movies, anime, software, etc.
3. Promotion of keygens, serials, cracks, etc.
4. Hosting or linking to pornography, escort services, or other content deemed adult related.
5. Corporate or personal backups.
6. Promotion of controlled substances, illegal drugs, or weapons to attack others.

All activities on our servers may be monitored, recorded, and examined by any authorized person, including law enforcement. A complete list of our Terms of Service may be found here: https://www.bluehost.com/cgi/info/terms.html
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:19:55 AM]: canned, yes, i get it. Thats not what I mean
Dalson [3:20:11 AM]: Okay…
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:20:27 AM]: all activities are monitored on ALL servers, even my small little boxes
[3:21:54 AM]: I want a web host, for a blog, LIKE ONE, but i produce fiiles, not music, that I need a reliable host for. It’s kind of trivial compared to what you are used to
[3:22:19 AM]: I do know that your company researches SEO cause i just ran a whois
Dalson [3:22:24 AM]: Well, we have automated systems generating logs all the time. We don’t go browsing our customers’ data.
[3:23:02 AM]: Oh, I see. That should be fine.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:23:15 AM]: dude, i understand how it works, ….
[3:23:25 AM]: what should be fine?
Dalson [3:23:45 AM]: That you produce files and want them hosted.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:23:56 AM]: last thing I typed was “whois”
[3:24:01 AM]: sorry
[3:24:27 AM]: I said i have been doing this a long time so please understand,
Dalson [3:24:34 AM]: I do.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:24:40 AM]: lol
Dalson [3:24:48 AM]: =)
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:25:17 AM]: 4.95 covers… what exactly
Dalson [3:25:41 AM]: Everything. Basically we just have 1 plan, with all the stuff we offer, and 5 ways to pay.
[3:25:55 AM]: So we don’t divide the features, just the payment options.
[3:26:04 AM]: This is what we offer:
[3:26:07 AM]: Our company provides you with web hosting solutions, including a control panel to manage your websites and domains. Our Apache 2.2 servers run CentOS 4.6, a Linux operating system, and our systems are compatible with almost any website built on Windows, Linux or Mac OS. We provide professional server support for several technologies, including but not limited to: PHP 5.2, HTML, JavaScript, CGI, Perl 5.8, Python 2.3, Rails 2.1, Ruby 1.8, PostgreSQL 7.4, MySQL 5, GD 2, ImageMagick 6, Zend Optimizer 3.2, and SharePoint Services.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:26:09 AM]: so 4.95 is annually
[3:26:24 AM]: per month
Dalson [3:26:29 AM]: That is the rate per month of the promotional 3 years plan.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:26:34 AM]: k
[3:26:49 AM]: nice, package, hackerish even
Dalson [3:27:14 AM]: Yeah… lots of open source.
[3:27:16 AM]: POP, IMAP and SMTP servers, webmail, spam filters, custom email filters, email forwarding, auto-response email, hotlink protection, password protected folders, IP blocking, website statistics, cronjobs, and custom error pages are some of the many features offered by default. We can also provide you with a dedicated IP (necessary for several programs such as Ventrilo and TeamSpeak), SSL certificate for merchant activities (e-commerce websites), and SSH access. From the control panel you can create custom email addresses, FTP accounts, and databases.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:28:55 AM]: how are you keeping track of all of this, I can think of a lot of ways to use these features, or… maybe, what if im not so straitforward
[3:29:43 AM]: whats the bottom line price for 3 years promo
[3:31:04 AM]: what kind of bandwidth do you have to support unlimited space and traffic?
[3:31:52 AM]: getting nervous here….
[3:32:08 AM]: btw, what UTC am I?
[3:33:01 AM]: if you can answer in 15 sec or less you have my business, it shows your company is on top of things
Dalson [3:33:12 AM]: You’re in Nevada, right?
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:33:19 AM]: ahhhhhh
Dalson [3:33:21 AM]: So yeah, sorry for the wait.
[3:33:28 AM]: We are currently offering unlimited space for websites, databases, and email accounts. We do not cap how many pages or products (for e-commerce websites) you can have. Our servers do have some limits, though. We allow each web hosting account a maximum of:

- 8 simultaneous IMAP connections
- 500 emails to be sent per hour
- 40 simultaneous PHP connections
- 60 simultaneous MySQL connections
- 8 simultaneous FTP connections
- 450 simultaneous HTTP connections
- 20% of a 1x core CPU power
- 60 seconds of continuous CPU time
- approximately 50,000 files total
[3:33:32 AM]: Those are our limits.
[3:33:54 AM]: So that’s in response to your question about unlimited space and traffic.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:34:06 AM]: yes
[3:36:18 AM]: I wont need all that, but im wondering how you can support this, ofcourse without divulging anything, is it dedicated, virtual? and huge amount of bandwidth, what form?
Dalson [3:37:28 AM]: We can offer unlimited bandwidth because we have a sweet deal with Qwest. We are connected to 6x OC-48 lines.
[3:37:53 AM]: That’s one of the main lines that cross the country Pacific to Atlantic.
[3:38:05 AM]: We have shared servers, though.
[3:38:24 AM]: We have about 200 customers per server.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:38:54 AM]: security is important, if you can tell me what my zip code is based off of my ip address… Ill stay, cause you have interesting information
[3:39:29 AM]: ( I gave him half of my ip)
Dalson [3:40:06 AM]: I know that you’re somewhere around Las Vegas.
[3:40:14 AM]: (He told me my full ip)
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:40:31 AM]: right. session information can tell u that
Dalson [3:40:51 AM]: Or netstat.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:41:17 AM]: running linux?
[3:41:21 AM]: or mac
Dalson [3:42:07 AM]: I’m running a Mac.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:42:35 AM]: u have a good amount of knowledge
Dalson [3:42:48 AM]: Thanks.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:42:58 AM]: using visor?
Dalson [3:43:18 AM]: Nope, not here.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:44:34 AM]: how can I trust your company, can you provide me with some more contact?
Dalson [3:44:51 AM]: Well, you can call us at anytime.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:45:10 AM]: ok 888 401 4678
Dalson [3:45:29 AM]: Yup.
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:46:10 AM]: you worked with cisco huh
[3:46:17 AM]: i mean equipment
[3:46:34 AM]: net engineer at some point
Dalson [3:46:46 AM]: How do you know that?
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:46:50 AM]: huh
[3:47:00 AM]: yeah, i understand,
[3:47:18 AM]: ill call you guys, your freakin cool
Dalson [3:47:24 AM]: =)
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION [3:47:26 AM]: k late

.tel domain

phosphor — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:39:05 +0000

Give me a break. Just wait until summer of 2009 and wait. Be patient, ask any good business what they did. Get your name at a good price and be patient.

Great Tutorial on Code Igniter (MVC) basics

phosphor — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:38:35 +0000

Stay tuned into this blog if you are learning about CI or Rails (MVC).

Opinionated Coder

Awesome Tutorial on Glass Buttons

phosphor — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:03:12 +0000

Clear explanation on how to create a glass button for web design in Adobe Illustrator. Also the vector work is always going to come out cleaner than what is created in Photoshop

glass button tutorial

easter-eggs.seestyle

phosphor — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:39:35 +0000

Spring colors, bright and punchy.

easter-eggs.seestyle
Make sure you turn OFF inverted colors, recommended black background and monaco 12pt.