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For Those Who Do It All

Your best and worst attributes...

         

celgins

7:23 pm on Mar 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

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This thread is for those who do it all in web development. There is absolutely nothing wrong with those small businesses where 2, 5, 10, or more people are helping with design, content, articles, SEO, marketing, etc.

But for those of you who do it all... alone: (designing, coding, SEO, content, marketing, advertising, maintenance, crying, rejoicing, hosting, troubleshooting, etc) ...

What are your best and worst attributes.

For me:

Best: Designing. I always look forward to mapping out designs and color schemes.

Worst: Content (I get the web version of, "writer's block" from time to time!)

MatthewHSE

9:19 pm on Mar 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Best: Back-end stuff. Raw HTML, CSS, some PHP, etc.

Worst: Design. I hate it, can't make anything look even halfway decent on my own.

FalseDawn

2:46 am on Mar 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Best: Database stuff, coding meaty algortithms (I love problems I can really get my teeth into - I often go to bed with a problem on my mind and wake up and immediately have the solution. Amazing!)

Worst: Doing the accounting (tedious but necessary) and dealing with bad customers (annoying but necessary)

r3nz0

6:08 am on Mar 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Cool that their are some friends out their :) The crying part i like most haha, maybe we could start a club or something.. The Raw Webmaster Club

Best: raw HTML, CSS, PHP, writing and authoring
Worse: Hosting responsebility and Social contacts
Becoming better: Javascript / DHTML
Most intrest: Weird website psychologie.. huh?!;)

Im looking forward to give my hosting out to a specialized company to focus only on content and site building.

For Celgins, dont stop writing; never! It will be better and better i think. For me: i like creating little rhyms when i am on my bike or something.. become a master in your language and you could connect almost every word to create a nice story!

Sorry for my english.. im a (crazy) flying dutch man

ps. whats 'rejoicing'?

[edited by: r3nz0 at 6:18 am (utc) on Mar. 28, 2006]

zCat

6:14 am on Mar 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Best: coding, particularly high-performance database backed interactive sites

Worst: design, especially colours and graphics; completing projects I start, and not letting myself get distracted by trivial details

graeme_p

6:56 am on Mar 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Best: content
Worst: marketing

I write content that is very similar to what I used to be paid to do as an employee so I have relevant expertise, experience and qualifications.

I am just not good at marketing. I can handle basic SEO, but I really have to forcemyself to get other aspects of marketing (link generation etc.) done.

celgins

1:13 pm on Mar 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I often go to bed with a problem on my mind and wake up and immediately have the solution. Amazing!)

Geez... I thought I was the only one who did that! :)

whats 'rejoicing'?

r3nz0... I won't stop writing, but I hope it gets easier! BTW, rejoicing is to feel joyful, or be delighted. Although a lot of us probably think we have more "crying" days than "rejoicing" days!

zCat

coding, particularly high-performance database backed interactive sites

One of my favs as well, but I'm starting a site now where I'm taking hardcore SEO into consideration. As a result, I'm trying to use more static pages and not so many database queries (mostly querystrings)

zCat

7:30 pm on Mar 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

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One of my favs as well, but I'm starting a site now where I'm taking hardcore SEO into consideration. As a result, I'm trying to use more static pages and not so many database queries (mostly querystrings)

Oddly enough, SEO and database driven sites are not incompatible, it's just a matter of dressing up the URLs. And making sure the page is delivered quickly enough that - for the recipient - there's no noticeable difference between it and a purely static page.

celgins

3:36 am on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Oddly enough, SEO and database driven sites are not incompatible, it's just a matter of dressing up the URLs

True. I've been researching different ways to accomplish this.

TerryG

11:48 am on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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web site concept and design/layout.
I love to take an persons idea and a few pictures and build his/her dream, the rest is boring.