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Invoicing Is Killing Me

One thing that plagues me, no matter how good my month is going, is the task of invoicing. There are so many things that need to be tracked when it comes to ones books. Think of all the little things that need to be tracked on pretty much a daily basis for your ship to run smoothly.

• Expenses (Hate this one)
• Contractor Hours
• Products Sold (say your selling a good or something)
• Project Costs

Those are some of the things you must keep track of all the time. In addition these are some of the things you'll want your system to do for you.

• Send clients invoices and reminders via email and pdf form.
• Ability for clients to pay you via a click of a button (Paypal or Google Checkout).
• Brand your invoices
• Reconcile your books
• Report (all kinds of this stuff)
• Save Time & Money

Posted: Sunday, January 03, 2010

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Generate Archive List in Django

I wrote a tutorial a while ago in pdf form that walked you through creating a blog with Django. One of the pieces that I left out, was how to use the information in your blog to create a list of available months for an archive. To do this, we are going to use Djangos templatetags. Here is how we do it.

Posted: Saturday, January 02, 2010

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I Need A Brand

How often as a web designer do you walk into a brief and potential client says "our brand is important to us"? Almost always right? From the work I have done, the brand is the most important thing out there, especially when it comes to online commerce.

So if branding is important for my clients, why hasn't it been important for me? I've got a Wordpress blog, that I haven't updated since, oh March of 2009. Yup, as sad as that may be, it's sad. Extremely sad, especially since I build custom blogs and websites for people. How pathetic.

Posted: Friday, January 01, 2010

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