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T00N
Super User
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 Posted - 09 May 2008 : 19:54:53
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I've recently made a big decision in my life.
I'm gonna sell my main business (a record store) and I'm going to try to build up a fulltime webdesign company.
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Martin1
Super User
Netherlands
626 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2008 : 22:35:08
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Hello Toon,
This is a big decision indeed. I am not sure how your record store is doing, but starting up a new business is always tricky.
I wish you good luck and lots of clients.
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T00N
Super User
573 Posts |
Posted - 10 May 2008 : 09:47:13
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Allthough I still make a nice profit out of the recordstore I think it's a good time for me to go in a different direction.
Downloading becomes more and more a problem and after 26 years it's time for something different.
And you know what, I don't need a lot of money...
(but my wife does :) |
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Martin1
Super User
Netherlands
626 Posts |
Posted - 10 May 2008 : 10:41:16
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Hehehehehe women[2 H:..(], they cost a lot of money[3 :p].
Martin |
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s.dav
Site Admin
Italy
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Posted - 10 May 2008 : 20:00:00
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| You can act as me, I work for a company and I also work for myself ;-) |
Regards, Davide |
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T00N
Super User
573 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2008 : 20:42:43
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| I was wondering, are there more people that develop websites fulltime here that work with DHE? |
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rmmarsh
Super User
USA
396 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2008 : 01:56:00
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I am retired but work for a college part-time and do web design on the side. My web design business suffers from customers not knowing what effective web design is. My sites don't have a lot of pizazz, but deliver content/information rather well. Most customers really don't know what communicating via a web page is all about. (see http://webpagesthatsuck.com)
I would suggest you keep your record store until you get established in the web design field. The competition is fierce! |
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T00N
Super User
573 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2008 : 07:18:42
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I registered myself as a webdesign business on 01.01.2006.
Since then I made quit a few sites for paying customers.
Nowadays it's so that I have too little time in the week to spend on making websites.
And that's without any advertisement at all.
Ofcourse I could do it on the side (thats what I disd the last 2 years) but selling cd's is becoming harder and harder every day and just doesn't give me enough satisfaction anymore. Working for a boss is something I haven done in a veeeery long time time so that's not an option either. My financial situation is rather oke so if there's a week without work I can still pay the morgage :)
So I'm gonna give it my best,
hire myself a brandnew officespace (working from home is not ideal)
and become a 'name' in this bizznizz.
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Martin1
Super User
Netherlands
626 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2008 : 18:57:01
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I develop websites fulltime and work with DHE:-).
I used to work with Adobe GoLive but since I found DHE I haven't really used it anymore.
The software I use are:
DHE
Paint Shop Pro (don't like photoshop)
Sothink DHTML Menu
Forms To Go
Coolruler
Ws_Ftp pro
Swishmax (but I haven't used it in a long time)
Pspad editor
Colorpic
Advance Jpeg Compressor
Topstyle (don't use it that often seeing as DHE creates it's own stylesheets) |
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Jan van Londen
Super User
Netherlands
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Posted - 12 May 2008 : 20:45:37
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Toon, good luck!
Martin stated he uses WS_FTP. I used it too when it still was free- or shareware. Since a few years I use Filezilla. Freeware, lots of possibilities, nice to use.
You can find it here:
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php
Bye, Londen. |
Bye,
Londen. |
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Tonivel
Practical
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Posted - 13 May 2008 : 02:51:52
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Londen, is right!
I tested many, but the "Filezilla" is the best. I always use.
Toon, good luck and many good sites!
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Martin1
Super User
Netherlands
626 Posts |
Posted - 13 May 2008 : 12:37:10
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I also have Filezilla because I sometimes have some problems with ws-ftp pro so I installed Filezilla. Very handy and very powerfull and I can certainly advise you to use it:-).
martin |
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Big decision
