If you have something easy you need done in a jiffy – send me an email. I knock out contact forms, registration forms, data entry forms, etc. pretty quickly. My prices are competitive and reasonable.

I was scanning Craigslist looking for some work and saw someone looking for a web developer at $7 an hour. You gotta be kidding me. I can make more than that working at Home Depot.

If you are a developer or designer, never settle for less than what you think you deserve. If you are good, then charge it.

Someone else made a comment about this on Craigslist – here was his/her comment:

“There have been many postings lately asking for designers/coders/who knows what and offering practically minimum wage. That is despicable. I have personally found that 30 dollars is the bare minimum (I was charging that while still in school).

And anyone who is thinking of taking a job at anything less than 30 an hour (unless you have no experience and it is a very good internship), please reconsider, it hurts and cheapens our profession.”

Check out our fancy new badge; 70 out of a 100 aint’ bad heh?

Link: WebsiteGrader.com

Tiffany’s Rentals (www.tiffanysrentals.com) lists a nice selection of houses for rent on Bald Head Island, located off of the southeastern coast of North Carolina, between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic ocean.

Graphic Moxie has done an excellent job redesigning the website and Impulse has been in charge of the PHP programming and MySQL database development. The rentals are stored in a database and the site admin has the ability to add, update and delete rental listings at their leisure.

The new design should be up very soon so be sure and check out the site in the near future.

Link: Tiffany’s Rentals on Bald Head Island, NC

Looking for a great hotel in Wilmington NC?

I know that 2 new ones just opened up on Eastwood heading down towards Wrightsville beach.

Here are the top 10 websites for finding hotels in Wilmington NC according to Google:

http://hotel-guides.us/north-carolina/wilmington-nc-hotels.html

http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/ILMNCHF-Hilton-Wilmington-Riverside-North-Carolina/index.do

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-478397-wilmington_vacations-i

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/ilmcy-courtyard-wilmington/

http://www.coastlineinn.com/

http://www.wilmingtonhi.com/

http://www.hotel-rates.com/us/north-carolina/wilmington/

http://www.redroof.com/

http://www.thewilmingtonian.com/

We require 50% up front and 50% when the site is complete. That way, you secure our time so we can begin working on the site.

For example, let’s say I have 2 customers, A and B. Customer A is willing to pay 50% up front but Customer B does not. Whose site do you think I’m going to work on first?

Let’s say I spend 2 weeks working on a design for Customer B who did not pay a deposit. Customer B decides to leave and let a competitor work on their website. I just spent 2 weeks, not getting paid, not working on another site and not out looking for more work.

I am interested in how other designers and developers out there charge for their websites/projects. Feel free to leave a comment.

Go their website and read the instructions – http://wordpress.com/

However, if you cannot figure it out or you just don’t have the time to mess with it, give me a call and I can help you out. I have installed it plenty of times for other sites I have worked on.

Call now! 1.910.538.6731 use the Contact page contact form to send me an email.

On a side note, I saw this job post on Craigslist today:

We need the following today:

– Someone to setup WordPress on our host
– Take our custom/ branded CSS and create a WordPress template
– Install the new custom template to the WordPress blog

Send hourly/ project rate and examples of your work. This should not take you more than 2 hours.

I find it amusing how someone who does NOT know how to install WordPress, much less create a custom WordPress template, know that this type of project should only take 2 hours. Without seeing the complexity of the design, it would be impossible to quote an accurate estimate on the time needed.

Google has come up with a nice little PDF with a ton of SEO information. It is basically a starter guide for anyone interested in optimizing their site. Optimizing a site is not rocket science, but it does require a ton of work which is one of the services I provide.

Link: Google Blog Topic about the SEO Starter Guide

Link: My SEO Services – for info or prices please call 1.910.538.6731

I would like to wish all of my clients and everyone else out there a Happy Thanksgiving!

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