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Subject :Re:Unfasten up your information.. 2009-11-24 03:22:58

Nicole Smith

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Forum : General Stories About Web Design / Development
Topic : Unfasten up your information

I see your point. Although most online custom applications can be exported from SQL databases to Excel spreadsheets and downloaded, it is very simple to become familiar with most of the custom applications such as (extensions, modules, components and addons). Becoming familiar with a few tools will speed up the process of sorting and finding any data. Going from SQL to CSV (Excel) is just another step. Sure, for some that are too comfortable with the basic Microsoft ways of doing things there may be no other option. But for those who are willing to try new tools, using new tools is just a way of life.

In many ways, exporting too many spreadsheets just leads to confusion; especially if the website contains downloads, forums, blogs, shopping carts, directories and more. The software developers who go out of their way to make apps as idiot-proof as they can make finding, storing, and sorting data easy. With a few dollars spent in more custom web development and a few simple lessons, almost anyone who can check email can be up and running and take control.

As far as general capabilities goes, importing a CSV file to an SQL database table and exporting a database table to CSV for Excel is just part of what can be done with a few simple SQL commands.

The bottom line is that Excel is not used to power forums, blogs, shopping carts, and any other PHP extension; even though the data can be exported into this format.

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Subject :Unfasten up your information.. 2009-11-23 19:09:23

TinaDenni

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Forum : General Stories About Web Design / Development
Topic : Unfasten up your information

There are extremely few cases wherever B2B and endeavor submission activate in separation. More frequently than not, communal client have to use a collection of applications to obtain their work completed. except this circumstances has been well thought-out from the commencement, it's frequently complicated to get applications to work mutually and effortlessly substitute data, and client have to resort to instruction manual workarounds to stay things moving.

To avoid this happening in your application:

- Permit client to export data in a arrangement that they're recognizable with e.g. Excel spreadsheets.

- Let customer to simply print out information where probable - not everybody wants to appraisal a huge quantity of information on a computer monitor.

- Ensure if there are any industry-standard data arrangements relevant to your application sphere, and be conventional to these arrangements where probable to permit for faultless incorporation with other submission

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Subject :My Website.. 2009-11-22 16:18:47

Sonja Richards

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Forum : General Discussions
Topic : My Website

I would like a website that I can edit myself. Does this cost more than one where some else makes the changes?

Sonja

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Subject :Audacity will not record.. 2009-11-22 16:13:57

Juan Pierre

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Forum : General Discussions
Topic : Audacity will not record

I am having trouble recording with Audacity. Any idea what is wrong? I am using Windows Vista.

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Subject :Good Work Good Results.. 2009-10-24 12:57:07

Roger

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Forum : Good Client
Topic : Good Work Good Results

It was about 9:00 a.m. and I received this phone call about a new job. The prospect had asked, "Hi, I want to make a website for my company. I liked your portfolio and thought I would ask about your services.

I replied, "Okay, first of all. What sort of sites do you like? The Flash or the HTML?

"I am no authority on the subject. But, I really liked your website and would like something along those lines. I like all the movement and the unique look."

"Okay", I answered. "You want a Flash site".

After a few more minutes of talking, we decided the best place for us to begin was for me to send him some template samples, since, he a templated Flash site was what he wanted.

I spent an hour or two finding the most appropriate samples. He really liked one of the them, so we went with that one.

Between the images and text he had sent me, the site got assembled rather quickly, piece by piece. There was a few minor changes along the way, but, he was about as good as a client gets for knowing what he wanted and liking what I had done. Within one week, the project was completed. Two years later, we still talk periodically and I keep updating his website.

Rog

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Subject :Craigslist Scam and Sham.. 2009-10-19 06:38:35

James

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Forum : Bad Client
Topic : Craigslist Scam and Sham

Looking back in my rear-view mirror, I remember being a naive Flash designer. Since I knew my way around Flash a little and sufficient knowledge of HTML, I thought that I could start doing websites that included Flash websites. Boy, was I in for a rude awakening. I took on this job for a lighting company that did very high-end lighting. The person I was doing the site for had a computer shop. They were two partners. One was a born Canadian of Asian heritage and the other had a strong foreign accent from the roots of both of these guys. This was quite a circus since the foreigner was always hyper and wanted to test and finish the site very quickly, while his partner was laid back and smooth.

During two weeks work on this project, I bought Flash slideshow software, and read the Book 'Advanced Flash' tremedously so I could do the required work that was originally beyond my scope.

The problem I had faced with these guys was that they would agree on what I was doing, then, come back and ask for more changes. When things got close to being done, I had realized this was going to be a never-ending runaround. The one fact I had working against me was that I did not make the slideshow exactly the way they wanted, but they had agreed on the other variations I had displayed.

After being stuck in this circle of no solutions, I gave up on the project.

Within one week, they decompiled my work and used 80% of what I had done. With Flash, it is possible to grab others work and change it if you have decent knowledge of Flash and actionscript.

My initial reactions were feelings of anger, as this had obviously been the intention the whole time. I immdeiate thought that next time my images will be watermarked for any samples I show herein thereafter.

Since I was a fresh newbie with an ad on Craigslist, I did not have experience at dealing with enquiries. But, looking back, I also should have realized that I should not have taken on a job that was little over my head.

Although I was angry at being taken for a ride, I was the second person that had this happen to them while building this particular website.

I took that as a learning experience and moved on. It was good that I knew how to start analyzing my customers and knew what questions to ask because about 7-10 enquiries are not serious or come from people with nothing better to do than harass others.

In the end, I was scammed, but I was the Sham.

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Subject :Re:SEO Nightmare.. 2009-10-19 03:18:34

Benny

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Forum : Bad Client
Topic : SEO Nightmare

I agree. Quite a gap about what one wants, what is possible and how hard it is to do something that looks so easy.

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Subject :SEO Nightmare.. 2009-10-19 01:50:32

Josh

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Forum : Bad Client
Topic : SEO Nightmare

After 4 weeks doing a project on a part time basis, I had finally completed the project. The site looked very sleek and the SEO was done well. I had done the site in Drupal CMS and had shown the company personel how to login and make the kind of changes they had wanted. Unfortunately, they stripped the keywords. Now, there were keywords without the text in the article and much of the text that made relevant searching was gone. I thought, well, if that was what they wanted....so be. However, now I began to receive a stream of call about how Google no longer picked up the right phrases.

I told the man, "Look, your changes made the keyword searching to fail, not me. I had it right, remember?"

He replied, "I need it be rank properly like before."

I held my cool and replied, "I will change this once more, but, remember what I told you about changing the way it is written. You write it your way, or for Google. Google has their methods for relevant indexing and if you want your keywords to pickup we must write the content correctly. I will do this, wait until Google reindexes the page, then, I will get back to you."

Shortly thereafter, the keywords were working like before. Then, my client had said, "I do not like all the text to say that. I want it changed."

"Look," I answered, "I told what I had to do and I did it. You must live with that now." I was beginning to be angry because his compiled amount of changes was going through the roof. His former webmaster bailed on the job, so my best read on this fellow was that he would be impossible to please. The 1 in 7 guy. To play my hand and deal with my frustration, I said "I am done, either you take it as is or you can start again."

After arguing for a couple of minutes, he told me to call him when I was ready to talk. I had lost that readiness and sent him an email about finalizing the project.

He finally came around and understood why things had to be written as they were. Too many times, clients look at their site so often during the construction phase that they get tired of it and want so many changes that really have no impact on order, function or usability.

After he came around to realize I did the right thing for SEO, we met and had a good time. After a short presentation of the work he had received I knew he was satisfied and he began to see my side of things a little better.

Josh

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Subject :Pleasing a Client.. 2009-10-17 06:53:27

Ryan

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Forum : Good Client
Topic : Pleasing a Client

Pleasing clients is much easier said than done. Often, I can ask the right questions and make some generalizations to get a feel if this client knows what he wants and how easy he will be to please. However, sometimes the client takes on quite a venture and receives a beautiful website with a plethora of changes. Then, he is happy with results, but a little edgy about the pricing. One of the biggest gaps facing web builder and client is that the client normally has some computer experience with software like Word and Photoshop where everything is drag and drop. Unfortunatley, this world is often distant from that when it comes to completing a website; especially is Flash and Content management Systems are used.

Ryan

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