While writing a quick comment on Paul Boag’s recent post I thought that the issue of pricing online products, and specifically how we approached setting a price for Perch, might be of interest to anyone else considering how to charge for their work. Perch is a content management system developed and sold by my company, … Pricing your product
With the rise in inexpensive virtual private server (VPS) packages, the web is full of hosting companies making web designers and developers the enticing sounding offer of “becoming their own web host”. This is one of those things that sounds a really great idea until you start to unpack it. After all, who wouldn’t want … Reselling web hosting to clients
“The UI is not just an interface between the browser and a human, it’s an interface between a human and a database. You can’t have an interface unless you can connect to both things. If you don’t know how your interface connects to a database, what are you interfacing to? Ryan Singer – in an … Understanding your medium
One of our aims for Perch – the little CMS product developed by my company edgeofmyseat.com – is that the barrier to entry, to getting it installed is as low as possible. We chose PHP because hosting is cheap and plentiful, and it is very easy to set up a local development environment. Even for … Perch addon development and old PHP versions
I founded edgeofmyseat.com in September 2001. From the outset we have focussed on working for designers and design agencies – providing web development services. Drew McLellan joined the company in September 2007 and we continued working for the same kind of clients – taking on slightly bigger projects and developing things like our own PHP … Relaunching the edgeofmyseat.com website
The end of November went a bit crazy at edgeofmyseat.com – however rather than external deadlines, these were entirely of our own making. First out of the stable on Monday was the 1.6 release of our little Content Management System, Perch. Since releasing Perch a year and a half ago we have had loads of … The week of many launches
This week I presented at the Think Vitamin Online CSS3 Conference, kicking off the event with my presentation on CSS3 Selectors. I have now uploaded my slides and also my working file examples of the different selectors in use. Presenting online proved to be a slightly weird experience. When presenting at a conference, even the … Online CSS3 Conference
In the 9 years I have been running edgeofmyseat.com I have issued a large number of invoices but also received many invoices for freelancers and small companies working for us. Our policy is simple – we pay our contractors on or before the due date of the invoice. If we ask someone to do some … On paying and being paid
This is a rather lengthy post, and to try and keep it shorter than it would otherwise be I am assuming that readers have heard of Freecycle, Freegle or other re-use organizations and have had some experience of posting to them as a member or a moderator. You also need to know that I was … An open source application for re-use networks
When reading customer testimonials on websites I sometimes wonder how genuine the words are. There is often no way of knowing whether the quote even came from a real person, whether it was unsolicited or how old it is. As a business owner you have to keep these testimonials fresh and remember to request new … Using Twitter for customer testimonials