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Considering of becoming a freelance web developer

Hi all,
I am keen of setting up becoming a freelance web developer but i have serial things i wanna discuss
first thing is there much a difference between a company that user cpanel than a company like webs.com the reason i ask is because today if any of the people at my software in keen of [...]

Tagging music database, lyrics

It is a local issue here – related to works in the Nepalese Music Industry and intellectual properties.
Since about a decade, I am purchasing local music albums on the cassettes – all legal releases. Most of them now don’t work, as some moisture or old age ruined the files – some broken or demagnetized. The [...]

Need advise on forming agreement

Hello Friends,
I run a web development company myself in India. Recently i received an offer from a hosting company in USA, their offer is we do their design free of cost and in return they will send us all customers seeking web design services to us.
Now, if we do their site and not get paid [...]

Where do the big guys spend their money?

A friend of mine asked me why his shop can’t compete with the likes of amazon, tesco, argos, etc – same product lines, same market. All I could really tell him was his £50 a month is a tiny fraction of what they are paying….
I just wondered, apart from the off-line marketing, [...]

Web Clients: Are they always like this??

I’m not sure if this is just how it is or I’ve just run into some bad clients.
I seem to find that I have to really, really pester my clients to send me their content (it’s been a month for 1 client since I’ve asked) and then when I do get a response, it’s so [...]

A question regarding contract jobs

I’m thinking about trying to win a few non-local development contracts, however, since I haven’t done that before, I’m not sure about a couple of things. My target is European employers (I live in EU myself), but I’m interested in hearing opinions about other markets (US, Australia).
I’ve been looking through contract jobs in UK and [...]

Screen Scrapping. Legal?

I’m a website developer who is looking at creating his own startup website. Without giving too much away, the functionality mainly relies on directory information (business names, addresses, telephones etc).
To collect my own data would be a massive task and to save time I am considering using a screen scrapper such as Mozenda (http://www.mozenda.com/). My [...]

Am I right to see red flags?

A bit of advice needed here.
I have a prospect who is at the contract signing stage of the project. Leading up to this point there have been a few of those moments where a little voice in my head was whispering ‘run!’.
The main nags were:
1. He had already designed his existing website and so has [...]

client from sweet to poison – refuses to pay for 90% completed work, AND work of may.

I have a client who started off nice, but pushy – and has ended up with him fabricating everything. Since Mayday and the introduction of Googles Local 7 for local business search, his first page organic listings have taken a hit. In addition the guy who has been doing PPC for him for the last [...]

Previous designer has hijacked the site

I’m working for a company that had their previous designer buy the hosting and domain for them. The guy is in India… but I guess that doesn’t really matter. He was going to make the company I work for pay him $500 to transfer their domain, so the company just bought a new domain. The [...]