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Re: The Customer is Always Right… …Right?

studionashvegas — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:28:42 -0000

As right as rain, amigo ;)

Re: BlogWorldExpo (#bwe09) Recap 1: Customers Own Your Content

studionashvegas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:31:36 -0000

I think that's a great point - if a website dies, does the customer have the ability, or even the right, to add to it based on their own thoughts? If my about page was axed due to a server issue, what would people say about me?

It's almost a better question to ask "what do you want your digital tombstone to say?"

"Here lies a great man"...

or "Pshh. Good Riddance!"

Re: BlogWorldExpo (#bwe09) Recap 1: Customers Own Your Content

Amber Weinberg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:20:51 -0000

Good question. I think people (maybe not clients but other developers) would email you. I got a few tweets about my site being down when I was transitioning to the new layout. Made me feel a little loved. I don't think any clients would realize/know because most don't visit my site after they hire me.

Re: BlogWorldExpo (#bwe09) Recap 1: Customers Own Your Content

studionashvegas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:16:57 -0000

Agreed. It does, however, depend on the perception. Another question is, how many websites would die with no one really caring? Would people care if my site died? Would they email me to see what's wrong, or would I fade into oblivion?

Re: BlogWorldExpo (#bwe09) Recap 1: Customers Own Your Content

studionashvegas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:16:08 -0000

Trust me, you should have seen it before I took stuff out - what can I say, I have a lot going on :)

Got a lot of notes - can't wait to kick in and actually write about it (hopefully).

Mitch

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

Ray — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:37:19 -0000

thanks mate very help full input... Cheers

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

studionashvegas — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:35:00 -0000

Haha, books won't help you - it's out of date by the time it prints.

Check Smashing Magazine, the WP Tavern, and do a search for "WordPress Theme Development" all the tutorials you could ever need are there.

Mitch

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

Ray — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:33:52 -0000

thank you very much. tis is great help. oh one more thing is there any books you might recommend for noobs?

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

studionashvegas — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:30:11 -0000

Absolutely. You can slice it once you're finished (using the slice tool) and build your page from the top down using CSS.

Mitch

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

Ray — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:29:10 -0000

Thank you mitch very help full. now my next question is can i create the look of my site on photoshop and use wordpress with it? sort of like a template.

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

studionashvegas — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:22:34 -0000

Ray,

Dreamweaver isn't an actual platform - it's a tool. I actually use dreamweaver to design/develop WordPress themes (HTML) before I slice them into the appropriate WordPress files. If you're really new, get your feet wet with WordPRess.com (free) and then either get a theme and customize or hire someone to design a site that does everything you need.

Mitch

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

studionashvegas — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:04:02 -0000

WordPress is great for quick deployment and great setup. Drupal has way more features than WordPRess out of the box, but (honestly) you may not need all of the functionality Drupal gives, and it would sit there taking space. WordPRess doesn't have a lot of stuff out of the gate, but you can add plugins in as necessary to make it work.

Or, if you need a bigger site, use WordPRess MultiUser (MU).

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

kshahrukh — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:22 -0000

My thoughts on OpenCMS :)

Last query...Drupal or Wordpress ??

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

studionashvegas — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:58:06 -0000

Kshahrukh,

Honestly, I've used OpenCMS, and it's a pain in the butt to customize once you get over a certain page limit (and it costs more money once you get there as well.

With the correct settings in WordPress, you can create a site as big as you want it with no barriers such as page limit or scalability.

Re: Hello world!

studionashvegas — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:33:46 -0000

Posting a comment to test.

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 3: Installation

studionashvegas — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:30:35 -0000

Nope! If you have a service with the one-click (like GoDaddy, or a cPanel host with Fantastico or Installatron, then just do it that way). It still never hurts to know the behind-the-scenes, because the one-touch basically does the same thing, just in the background.

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 3: Installation

studionashvegas — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:04:26 -0000

I told you - teach a man to fish, give a man a fish. Learn it the hard way, and then appreciate the easy way :)

Re: “Sue First, and Ask Questions Later” – Should We Watch What We Tweet?

studionashvegas — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:20:20 -0000

See, I disagree.

Twitter, like all technologies that come before it, is vulnerable to the laws that affect it. If one person successfully sues a person for a tweet, who's to stop the rest of the companies for suing because they don't like what's being said. It's more about "is a big company with big lawyers going to push around the individual".

Sure, we all have our moral boundaries and yes we are responsible for what we say, but I think "mold in a house" is a lot less of an offense than statements of higher caliber... "so and so's product gave us cancer".

Someone said it best: it's all going to come down to the decision of the court, and whether the house was moldy or not. If it wasn't moldy, then she'll lose - plain and simple. But it still means that we have to fact-check every single tweet... which eliminates the ability to have an opinion.

Re: “Sue First, and Ask Questions Later” – Should We Watch What We Tweet?

studionashvegas — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:48:24 -0000

Its funny how the PR nightmares stem more from the company than the issue they want to fix. If they'd have just taken this as what it is... a comment (that she was free to make) then they wouldn't be in the mess they're in.

Re: “Sue First, and Ask Questions Later” – Should We Watch What We Tweet?

studionashvegas — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:43:32 -0000

Thing is, yeah, fact is always square 1 when it comes to this sort of thing, but my beef is that I don't want to be dragged to court, losing time that I could be working or doing something else, just to prove I'm right. It's more of an issue of annoyance than anything.

Re: “Sue First, and Ask Questions Later” – Should We Watch What We Tweet?

lalunablanca — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:33:01 -0000

The anonymous route has the least consequences, but I also imagine the least opportunity for resolution. Great post and questions as society figures this out. Lots of precedences to be set. Hopefully for insightful and intelligent lawmakers. (cringe)

Re: “Sue First, and Ask Questions Later” – Should We Watch What We Tweet?

studionashvegas — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:28:07 -0000

The only problem is in airing a grievance, there has to be two elements... 1) A problem and 2) a personal face to hook it to. Angie's List has done a great job keeping their clients safe; its a place where people can defame the heck out of a company and they (company) can't do anything about it.

What keeps their clients safe? What keeps a company from trying to sue the complainer (or Angie's list) for defamation/libel?

Re: “Sue First, and Ask Questions Later” – Should We Watch What We Tweet?

studionashvegas — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:09:24 -0000

See, here's the thing; twitter has always been pegged as a "conversation". It's on the internet, and to a wide audience, but it's still people talking to people. Does this company really have a case against someone talking to the few people she follows?

Now, on the flipside, if she had 2000 followers, I might see the problem, but her sphere of influence is very limited.

Re: WordPress 101 – Session 1: What Is WordPress?

studionashvegas — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:16:03 -0000

Check the next posts in the series for the complete scoop, but basically when you buy the domain (check session 2 for the requirements you need) you also need hosting space. If you buy them together (with the same person) they are usually hooked together instantly. OTherwise, you have to tell the domain name what IP address to point to, or tell the hosting space what domain needs to point to it, and change the nameservers accordingly. Once that's done you can install WordPress on the server (or hit the one-touch button to have it install for you).

Re: FreshBooks – All Businesses Should Strive to Rock this Hard!

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:18:16 -0000

Honestly, I used Google Docs / InDesign and hand-did my invoices.

Man, what was I thinking? lol. This saves me so much time.