Is It Worth Getting Into Freelance Programming?

I actually get some variation of this question on an almost daily basis at the moment. It’s probably because some of my articles around the topic of freelance programming have hit the sweet spot in Google and more of you who are interested in freelancing are starting to make your way to my site (thanks for [...]

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Comments Feed 404 Not Working Properly

How To Fix WordPress Comments RSS Feed URL 404 Problem

Found a bit of an unusual one today when checking out a new site in Google Webmaster Tools. GWT was reporting that there was a huge number of links pointing to mywebsiteurl.com/comments/feed/ and that the feed’s URL was 404 not found. Very weird! Turns out that the site itself hasn’t had any comments yet so [...]

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Hover Label Input Box

How To Make Cool Placeholder Text On HTML Form Input Boxes

One of the cool tricks that I use frequently in my website designs is to make the labels of text input boxes in my HTML form appear to be on top of the input box itself then disappear when you click on it. In the past I’ve tried achieving this by using labels and hovering [...]

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Do You Have Shiny Object Syndrome?

Do You Have Shiny Object Syndrome?

If there’s one thing that I can certainly testify that I’ve struggled with over the years it’s my ability to concentrate on just one project at a time. I’m guilty of starting and not finishing more projects than you could poke a stick at. The thing is I’m not alone in this… go on, admit [...]

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Podcasts For Web Developers

Kick Ass Podcasts For Web Developers To Listen To

As a web developer while you’re plugging away at that code there’s something you can be doing to improve yourself, your job, your business and your life. It’s called Podcasts (if you don’t know what they are, welcome to the 21st century……). There’s literally thousands of podcasts out there on a huge range of topics, [...]

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Focus

Things I Want To Do Better Next Year In My Business

The end of the year always bring a bunch of these types of blog posts around the blogosphere. It’s the old “what I’m going to do next year” post. I’ve done a couple of these in the past, but this year I thought I’d put a bit of a spin on it and discuss some [...]

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Get Freelancing Clients With A Website

9 Foolproof Methods Of Finding Your First Freelance Clients

We all know that freelancing is a great method to start earning money on the side or even as a full time gig (like what I’m now doing). But finding your first freelance clients can be quite difficult if you’re just starting out from nothing. When I started out, it was almost by accident. Someone [...]

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The Blogging Bandwagon

Why You Need A Content Creation Schedule If You Want To Manage Multiple Websites

Ahh, the blogging bandwagon. I’m sure we’ve all fallen off that sucker a few times. But this time it’s different. I’m serious. I am going to get organised again. You see, I run a business and inside that business, we run a few sub-businesses. Each of these have their own websites that need their own content and [...]

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