Flame Scorpion

In todays world, the focus is on efficiency. If you are not efficient and you need a lot of time to write basic code, you will not have enough time to think above the lines of code. A programmer may end up writing a lot of lines of code to do simple things. A good way is to use a framework that will help you to write less code that do more, but this is not always an option because you are often required to build something from scratch, or to edit something that is already done. The solution for you is to use a php code generator.  [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you read some of my older posts you can clearly see that I encourage freelancing and an independent lifestyle. I didn’t changed my mind. I still believe that freelancing is better than having a full time jobs, but as any other thing on the earth, it has downsides too. I think it is fair to discuss about the disadvantages too, not only about the advantages that will mislead people to think that freelancing is perfect.

I am a freelancer for over 7 years, with good periods and bad periods. There were many advantages and good moments, and there were  some dissapointments too. In this article I will go trough most important disadvantages, but before I want to make a quick review of some of the biggest advantages of the freelancing.  [Read the rest of this entry...]

WordPress is getting more and more popular every day. The true power of wordpress don’t stand in the coding style, database or the feel of the administration panel. It stands in what you can do with wordpress and how fast you can do it. Here comes the community: plugins and documentation. Without proper documentation and blog articles explaining how to do things you basically can’t do a lot with wordpress unless you go trough all the files to see all the functions available to you. The plugins will help you to do whatever you want better and faster.

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When you start a new business, there are few things to do in the “backend” ( the less visible part ), like accounting, billing, human resources. You don’t need to fill a lot of paper sheets with accounting issues, you only have few clients and few or no employees. You can do all the stuff on your own, with no help.

Once your business grows, you will be overwhelmed by tasks that are not related to your main business. For example, if you are a web development firm you get involved in website creation and services. But if your firm grows and you get more and more clients to work with, several employees then you need to fill more accounting paper sheets, to deal more with human resources tasks, etc.

The first solution that comes into your mind is to employ other people to do these tasks: hire a full time accountant, hire a full time human resource person, hire a client service operator, etc. While this is a sign that your company has grown and you must be happy and congratulate yourself for what you achieved, this is the expensive way to deal with the problem.

In such economic situation, the right way to do this is to put the software at work. To pay a full time accountant you have to give at least 50,000 a year, for a senior housing software you have to pay only 250$ a month, which will make it 3000$ a year. You can find a software for every business, to help you with accounting, billing, human resources, task management and many other things. You don’t have to pay a lot of people to take care of this.

With the right information and tools, you can save thousand of dollars on tasks that are not related to your main business. Paying an expert is very expensive. Instead, using a software and accessing the right information is cheap. For example, if you want to grow your business and get a website, consulting a  website development documentation can save you tens of thousand of dollars that you might pay for work that you don’t need. The problem is that you don’t know what you need and what you don’t if you don’t have the knowledge.

There are many apps and other resources that can help users spend money on your site. By using these apps on your site, you should begin to see more of a profit since they make it easier for users to buy things. A couple of the best examples of these services are profiled below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

There are many factors that should be taken into consideration to figure out the value of a website: revenue, traffic, age. While revenue is a result of traffic, rankings, etc, then you can guess a value just with it. Most websites are selling for 10-12 times their monthly revenue, but there are some rules that you might want to follow to not being tricked by website flippers.

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As you probably figured out, you can do a lot of things with wordpress: blogs, simple presentation websites, shops, portfolio websites, q&a, social networks and much more. Despite web directories are not so popular as they were few years ago, I think it is still worth it to create a directory about a specific topic. For example, don’t you wish a place where you can view all sites that host free wordpress themes ? I bet you do.

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WordPress comes as a plug-and-play option for blogs and websites. While for normal websites you have to arrange your content, add pages and other stuff, on a blog you can just start blogging about whatever subject you want. Let’s assume that you already have a theme and you installed it, what you do now.  [Read the rest of this entry...]

Finding good programmers is not easy. There is a myth that says that you can outsource everything to poor countries and you get a lot of work done for nothing. This may work pretty well for robotic activities like data entry or something like this, but why do you think there are so many companies that prefer to work with US programmers ? Most people in those countries don’t even take time to get used with the language so they can communicate with buyers. Most of them are in for some quick cash. The truth is that there are enough programmers that are willing to do for you more than you pay just because they respect what they do, they want to do better and better so they can learn more and more. The goal here is to spot those coders.  [Read the rest of this entry...]

Oxford-Metrica, an analytics and advisory firm, reported that over 80% of companies will experience a problem that will cause a negative impact to their reputation and to their financial success. This is because most companies simply are not prepared to handle crisis and to prevent a negative reputation from getting out of control. There are numerous reputation management case studies that demonstrate this lack of preparation. Everyone is vulnerable and due to first amendment rights (a good thing) Google rarely removes search results (a bad thing). [Read the rest of this entry...]