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Panera Bread is known for great food, free wifi, but what about enlightenment?
If you’ve ever been to Panera Bread you know a couple of things to be true, great food and one of the only remaining companies to still offer free wifi internet. It was just a typical Thursday for me, nothing out of the norm. I worked my first deli...
Marketing a Social Network Website for the Inexperienced.
I’ve heard there’s a first time for everything and that has become an expression that occurs almost daily in my life. Throughout the entire process of making JealousBrother.com a reality it seems like I’ve ran into one obstacle after another. W...
Building a Social Network: Logo Design: Clip Art, Simple, or Custom?
If you want your website to stand out and be easily recognizable then you will need to consider a custom logo to go along with the unique domain name you have already registered. Once again there are multiple options for getting this done. There are ...
Building a Social Network: The Trademark Process Explained
Ideally, an attorney should handle your trademark registration. Unfortunately money doesn’t grow on trees so your only option may be to register the trademark on your own. Even if you complete this task on your own be prepared to pay between $350.0...
Building a Social Network: What Kind of Server? Linux, Windows, Shared, Dedicated, VPS?
After the WDA had been signed and the details had been thoroughly discussed the developer started work on photo shop comps of the website while I began a new journey; the quest for a server. Being so green when I started this project I actually thoug...
Building a Social Network: Legal Concerns - There are Plenty!
I’m going to take a couple of steps backwards to explain a certain necessary evil. With websites and social networks in particular there are a lot of legal issues that should be addressed. When I say necessary evil what I really mean is attorneys. ...
Building a Social Network: Have it Coded it or Use a Script?
After quickly realizing this website was far beyond anything I could do with any kind of html editors, I started requesting quotes from multiple web design firms online by providing a generic description of what I was hoping to achieve. The results w...
Building a Social Network: Introduction and Registering the Domain.
So you have a great idea for a social network and a great domain name to go with it? If you are new to the wonderful world of the web you might be inclined to think that registering the domain name is half of the battle. It is true that the name of t...
How to install Wordpress MU in 8 steps
This is a documentation of my first attempt to install Wordpress MU. Since others will certainly face this situation I thought it would be helpful to tell my story. The first steps are very straightforward. It’s only until you begin the install...
Setting up multiple virtual hosts in WAMP
Like many others I run a development version of a local Apache web server called WAMP. Up until today I had a normal file structure built for clients and specific client work. Usually I build a large majority of the site locally before uploading it t...
2 quick CSS tips for switching from tables
I love CSS but I have spent countless hours swearing at my computer because of CSS… It’s a love/hate relationship really. Although web standards have been around for a while now, people still use tables and improper code to create website...
