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Let Me Show You

I keep getting the question of where might someone view my portfolio. Which is actually a really good question, especially if your looking for someone to build you a website. If I were trying to hire a web designer, I would be looking at that person's portfolio to see what kind of style they have. Not only that, but I would be looking to make sure that they posses the ability to design multiple style sites. Generally speaking that means that one should have a portfolio of sites to show people.

I've decided to take that one step further and start my portfolio here, and show you how I can build additional websites with very different styles. I also want to prove that I've got the techniques to not only build a site, but do the things that are necessary to get noticed by search engines. Over the next several days and weeks, I'm going to build a site that will not only be live but demonstrate how I build the site completely from scratch.

What kind of site am I talking about?

Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2009

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Technorati No Worky For Me

Yesterday I spent a large amount of time trying to get Technorati to notice this blog. As it turns out, as you can see on the right, that I wasn't so successful. I thought to myself, why not try to "Claim" my blog with technorati, I've done it with all my other blogs, and it was fairly straight forward and easy. If I remember right, all I needed to do was add their code in a post, and then release the technorati spider to find it. Well, for some reason I could never find the spot where the claim code was given to me, hence the reason the spider can't look at my site.

But as I kept investigating, there is another way to get your blog noticed by technorati, and that's to ping their service.

Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2009

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A few More Updates

I told you that I would actively trying to get this site into shape, and I'm here to prove to you that I could get more working. So here are some highlights of what I did yesterday to improve the site.

RSS Feeds

You'll notice now on the right hand side of the page there is an RSS link. Go ahead and click that, and depending on what browser your using you'll subscribe yourself to my feed. I might actually change this in the future to be managed by feedburner, but right now I can handle it myself.

Posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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We Are Off - Finally

As you can see I've finally proceeded with getting my site here up and running. While doing so, I thought this might be a good place to start with the blog. After all I'm building this site so that others will notice me and hire me to build and maintain their websites. Even if you don't need me to design anything for you, hopefully you'll find something here that will inspire you or solve a problem. At the very least you can always drop me a line or comment. I'm one of those sick junkies who actually likes to get email. I know crazy.

Before we get on with the next improvement for this site, I thought it might be a good idea to review what we have going for us right now.

Posted: Monday, April 27, 2009

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Where Do I Start?

Often times, getting started is the hardest part of getting something accomplished. I've found this to be true, no matter if I was working a full time job or doing consulting for my own business. Getting started means that at some point you need to come up with a plan. I'm sure no battle was ever won without and really good plan of attack, which is what I need to get this thing off the ground.

First, I think we always need to have a goal in mind. My goal is to design a very compelling website that demonstrates my ability to design a website with all the essential elements a website needs in today's online market. I also want to use the website as a vehicle to generate new clients and display the work i'm doing for them here. It's kind of my way of advertising the clients that decides to use my skills.

Now that we have a goal I think it's important to set some expectations.

Posted: Wednesday, April 08, 2009

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Welcome

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my website. I hope to be able to prove to you that I am worthy of building your website. Whether that means consulting with you to create an online presence or helping you improve an existing one, I want to show you ...

Posted: Monday, April 06, 2009

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