- Above the Fold: Understanding the Principles of Successful Web Site De
- Adapting to Web Standards
- Art of Non-Conformity
- Art of Readable Code
- Art of SEO
- Back to the User
- Beginning PHP6, Apache, MySQL Web Development
- Book Notes
- Books to Read
- Bored and Brilliant
- Born For This
- Choosing A Vocation
- Complete E-Commerce Book
- Content Inc
- Core PHP Programming
- CRM Fundamentals
- CSS Text
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Defensive Design for the Web
- Deliver First Class Web sites
- Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty
- Designing Web Interfaces
- Designing Web sites that Work: Usability for the Web
- Designing with Progressive Enhancement
- Developing Large Web Applications
- Developing with Web Standards
- Economics of Software Quality
- Effortless commerce with php and MySQL
- Epic Content Marketing
- Extending Bootstrap
- Foundation Version Control for Web Developers
- Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career
- HACKING EXPOSED WEB APPLICATIONS, 3rd Edition
- Hacking Web Apps
- Happiness At Work
- Implementing Responsive Design
- Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- Instant LESS CSS Preprocessor How-to
- jQuery Pocket Reference
- Letting Go of the Words
- Lost and Found: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
- Making Every Meeting Matter
- Manage Your Day to Day
- Marketing to Millenials
- Mobile First
- Monster Loyalty
- More Eric Meye on CSS
- Official Ubuntu Book
- Organized Home
- Pay Me… Or Else!
- Perennial Seller
- Pet Food Nation
- PHP 5 E commerce Development
- PHP In a NutShell
- PHP Refactoring
- PHP5 and MySQL Bible
- PHP5 CMS Framework Development
- PHP5 Power Programming
- Preventing Web Attacks with Apache
- Pro PHP and jQuery
- Professional LAMP
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business
- Responsive Web Design with HTML and CSS3
- Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
- Rules of Thumb
- Saleable Software
- Search Engine Optimization Secrets
- Securing PHP Web Applications
- Serving Online Customers
- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile and Interaction Design
- Smart Organizing
- Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
- Talent is Not Enough
- The 10x Rule
- The Benefits of Working with Git In Your Software Projects
- The Clean Coder
- The Herbal Handbook for Home & Health
- The Life-changing Magic of Tidying up
- The Modern Web
- Think First
- This Is Marketing
- Traction
- Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition
- Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Cus
- Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
- Web Word Wizardry
- Web Word Wizardy
- Website Owner’s Manual
- Whats Stopping Me
- Work for Money, Design for Love
- Your Google® Game Plan for Success: Increasing Your Web Presence with
- Checklists I Have Collected or Created
- Crafts To Do
- Database and Data Relations Checklist
- Ecommerce Website Checklist
- Learning Stuff From Blogs
- My Front End UI Checklist
- New Client Needs Analysis
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- User Review Questions
- Web Designer's SEO Checklist
- Web site Review
- Website Code Checklist
- Website Final Approval Form
- Writing Content For Your Website
- Writing Styleguide
- Writing Tips
- 7 essentialls of graphic design
- Accidental Creative
- Choosing the right color for your logo
- CMS Design
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and
- Designing for Web Performance
- Eat That Frog
- Elements of User Experience
- Flexible Web Design
- Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability
- Homepage Usability
- Responsive Web Design
- Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective Use
- Strategic Web Designer
- Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web sites
- The Zen of CSS Design
- Complete Book of Potatoes
- Creating Custom Soil Mixes for Healthy, Happy Plants
- Edible Forest Garden
- Garden Design
- Gardening Tips and Tricks
- Gardens and History
- Herbs
- Houseplants
- Light Candle Levels
- My Garden
- My Garden To Plant
- Organic Fertilizers
- Organic Gardening in Alberta
- Plant Nurseries
- Plant Suggestions
- Planting Tips and Ideas
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- Weed Decoder
- 101 Organic Gardening Hacks
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- Beautiful No-Mow Lawns
- Beginner's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables
- Best of Lois Hole
- Design in Nature
- Eradicate Invasive Plants
- Gardening Books to Read
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- Seed Underground
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- Vegetables
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- Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
- What Grows Here
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- Well Designed
Being a programmer is hard; running a business is even harder. Here is an accumulation of information and further reading to help you with your business. Note: most of the information is focused on software/web development but there is some general business information.
The Best Tools for startups, writers, and freelancers
Great sample website contract http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/content/dl/2010/05/11/contract-killer-2nd-hit.txt
26 Steps of Product and Dashboard Design
Why You Need an Untouchable Day
Resolving the Email Signature Dilemma
Dealing with an Absent Decision Maker During Times of Review
Good Versus Great
Write down the three biggest changes you would like to see made in your project team, business unit, or company. If you were in charge, what specific actions would you take to make these changes? Have you voiced any of these suggestions to your boss in a constructive manner?
Think about what keeps you from speaking up at work. Write down these impediments, and discuss them with friends and loved ones.
Write down your values. Write down ethical boundaries that you promise yourself you will not cross. Discuss these values and boundaries with friends and loved ones.
Shorter Deliverables are Better
It’s important for developers to remember, especially with non-technical clients, that progress you can visualize with a user interface is often the only thing that matters to the client. Non-technical clients don’t care that you pushed out 500 lines of code this week, or that you had a hard time interacting with some web service; the only metric by which they can gauge progress is what they can see on the screen. That’s not to say that doing good work on the back-end is irrelevant, but rather that you need to make all this good work tangible in the eyes of the client.
This is why I like weekly or bi-weekly deliverables. Anything shorter than that often puts the developer in a hard place: maybe they get stuck doing back-end work for two days and don’t have time to finish the interface, so they have nothing to show the client.
Cost of the Solution
There’s the known cost in terms of what we’d spend to solve a problem. That’s the cost of the solution. But we do better comparing it to the cost of the problem to get an idea of whether we actually want to invest in the solution. Sometimes the solution costs more than the problem. That’s a pill perfectionists swallow, a lot. So when we face a recurring manual task we may first calculate how much that task, the problem, costs us. And then we look at how much automating the task, the solution would cost. A task that requires two minutes every week may not be worth spending several tens of thousands of dollars to automate.
And then there’s a cost in terms of comparative cost. Personally, I’ve found myself saying “we shouldn’t do this because it’s expensive” a lot. That “expensive” has rarely meant high-priced. It had to be seen as comparative, “more expensive.” In a code scenario let’s think of solving a styling problem by inserting extra markup instead of accepting additional complexity in the style sheet (although you already know that getting the markup right is important). That solution could turn out expensive not absolutely, as inserting that extra markup might only require a few seconds, but relatively because it would require every team member to know about the new constraint, because it would require being done many more times, and because overall it would be more work.
Further Reading
Best Business Entity: Sole Proprietor or Corporation? » SitePoint
10 Cost-Effective Ways to Delight Your Design Clients
Why Prospects Aren’t Looking for You: The Myth of the Self-Directed Buyer
Happy customers through an improved checkout « Boagworld
10 things I have learnt in 10 years of business
The Future of Content Management – Rachel Andrew at Smashing Conference
Charging Project Pricing Versus Hourly Rates
BuildMobile | 5 Free Legal Contracts That Every Mobile Developer NeedsBuildMobile
PRstack is a crowd-sourced catalog of 250 PR tools and 48 guides
Christoph Rumpel this is a good one about being a developer
What If Customer Experience Has No ROI? « Customer Experience Matters
Folyo - How to Pick a Great Designer
How to Pitch Freelance Services to Small Businesses
Microsoft Excel for Web Analytics and Big Data | Optimize Smar
Why The Shape Of A Company's Logo Matters
Is your website layout doing more damage than you think?
easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online
GitBook Editor · Simple writing from your desktop
Product Roadmap Software: Create Beautiful Roadmaps
31 Catchy Web Design Company Slogans | BrandonGaille.com
Software Testing Life Cycle » BuildMobile
5 Freelancing Mistakes to Avoid | CreativePro.com
For Designers, the Customer is Never Right (Even When They Are)
Build it With Me - Connecting Designers & Developers
E-Commerce
Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 1: Getting Customers To Your Products
Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 2: Guiding Customers Through The Buying Process
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