A web developers blog

I’d love to be able to update this site a lot more than I do however my day job and customers must come first! In the little free work time I’ve had over the past few months, I’ve managed to get most of my new portfolio website done which you can see if you go to GotWebsites.

I’ve been learning loads about CodeIgniter and Doctrine when I’ve had time aswell and I’d really like to write a few blog posts on that when I’m not as busy but it looks like I’m going to have loads of work on for the next month or two at least.

Hopefully when I get back to having time to post here I’ll come back with loads of great ideas for articles.

I’ve been looking for some good ‘Get Things Done’ (GTD) software for a while now. I’ve looked at loads of different options but nothing has done exactly what I want it to do whilst running on my Windows computer, my Mac and my Android phone and being relatively inexpensive.

Here’s a rundown on the software I found and the good and bad bits.

I like listening to web/freelancer related podcasts on the train to work every day so I thought I’d share the ones I like best. I do have a list of other podcasts to try out so I’ll post up some other good ones when I come across them however the ones in this post should be enough to keep you busy for a while!

Updates have been a little slow lately, I’ve been working on a new portfolio site and setting up my own Ubuntu server at home (which there will be a guide on sooner or later), I’ve also been working on a few more, longer posts for this site. I’ve also been debating whether to try out some video tutorials but I’m put off by the thought that a lot of viewers might not be able to understand my accent!

Anyway, on with the post. A while ago I wrote a guide on installing multiple versions of IE on your computer for testing purposes.

Since then there have been a few changes, first off IE8 has been released and a few more programs have been developed. I’m going to go through a few options you have when testing your site.

I found this video the other day and it really makes a good point of how making what you offer different to what everybody else is offering can help it sell, even if what you’re actually selling isn’t different at all.