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Codeistry now on Sortfolio

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Screenshot of the current Sortfolio page for Vancouver, showing the Codeistry entry, with a 'New' sticker.

I just added Codeistry to Sortfolio, 37Signals portfolio hosting/aggregating thing for web developers. As usual for 37Signals stuff, Sortfolio is very slick, simple and easy to use. The only thing that I didn’t really like is the budget range – it doesn’t really fit my experience:

Sortfolio Budget Ranges: $3,000 and under; $3,000-$10,000; $10,000-$25,000; $25,000-$50,000; Over $50,000Codeistry jobs are significantly more variable than these categories allow; I could really do with a ‘$100 – $10,000′ category. I don’t really want to drive away interesting smaller clients by saying that I only care about jobs that are over $3000, but I also do $10,000 jobs occasionally too. Hmmm…

Anyway, I’ll be updating the Codeistry entry over the next few days, adding more examples and screenshots. I’ll assess things in a couple of weeks and let you know if it works – and if I actually get any leads and new business via Sortfolio.

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The Cobblers Kids

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

“The Cobblers children have no shoes” – it’s an old expression but it’s very true – a busy cobbler will be so busy making shoes for customers that he has no time to make shoes for his own children. As Cobblers, so Web Developers, apparently.

Anyway, I’ve now carved out some time in my schedule to devote solely to working on my own stuff, so I’ll be keeping this site up to date from now on.

As a start, I’ve added a new job to the portfolio. A ‘new’ website for The Cambridge Interfaith Programme, completed at the end of 2009. I have a queue of other jobs to add, so expect to see a load more turning up soon.

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Bunch of updates to the Codeistry site

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

I’ve made a number of small updates to the Codeistry site today, which I’ve been queuing up on my local version for a while. I’ve made updates and corrections to my Accessibility made simple article, as well as minor updates to the 9 Steps to Improve your Small Business website and SEO for Fun and Profit ones.

Screenshot of MODx metadata field in page editor.I’ve also souped up the metadata that gets output in the page’s code, so that I’m now outputting a meta description tag – this outputs whatever I’ve typed into the page’s Description field in MODx.

Screenshot of the MODx Meta Keywords systemI’ve also started using MODx built in meta keywords system, so some pages now have some keywords set.

A little while age I also added a Creative Commons license to the page footer but forget to mention it on the blog. This means that the site’s content is now actually marked as copright of Codeistry now – which it wasn’t before. As I’ve chosen a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license, this also means that anyone can re-use, re-mix, translate or re-purpose any of the stuff on here for whatever they want, provided it’s non-commercial and they credit the original source.

Anyway, here’s the old footer:

Screenshot of the old Codeistry page footer, before the new license

and here’s the new one:

Screenshot of the Codeistry page footer, with the new Creative Commons license

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9 Steps to Improve your small business website

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

As a web designer & developer, I see a lot of websites, many of them belonging to small businesses. I’m also an independent, running my own business – my website is my shop window, so this subject is close to my wallet heart. There are some common things missing in a lot of the websites that I look at, things that would really improve the website and make it work harder for its owner. Fortunately, most of the missing bits are fairly easy to add.

This list is intended to make you think about your own website and give you practical, actionable steps that you can take right now to improve things. None of these things are difficult and most of them can easily be done in an hour or two. Print this off, mark the ones that you think you need to work on, and tick off one a week.

See the 9 Steps to Improve your small business website article for the steps!

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