Archive for September 2011

I feng shui overhaul on my office today

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Freelance Website Designer office fengshui balance I feng shui overhaul on my office todayI came across a really good article on how to feng shui my office.. Needless to say, I actually feel a little better..sure, no projects were started today, BUT i have a sense of ‘ready to work’… Being a work from home freelance website designer I’ll take all the help i can get!

Here’s what I found out are the do’s and dont’s for your office

  • DO sit in the corner farthest from the door and take COMMAND of the room.
  • DON’T sit in line with the door, as you will be in the path of negative energy.
  • DO keep your back toward a corner or a wall for support. If a post protrudes from the corner or wall, correct it by covering it with a hanging plant’s draping foliage.
  • DO sit with a tall building behind you to provide the support of a “mountain” if your back is to a window.
  • DON’T face away from the door if you are conducting business from home. Business will symbolically come to you through the door, so don’t turn your back on it.
  • DON’T arrange your workspace so that you look straight out into a corridor or see the stairs, storage rooms, closets, elevators, escalators, or toilets.
  • DO put your computer in the North or West area of your office to enhance your creativity. Place the computer in the Southeast if you use it to generate income.
  • DO place an aquarium or tabletop fountain in the East, North, or Southeast. A small aquarium with black or blue fish in the North area of your desk or office will activate your business and career success. Guppies or a single arrowana are ideal for an aquarium made of glass and metal.
  • DO place a safe, which is usually constructed of metal, in either West or Northwest, which both represent the metal element. The safe symbolizes the prosperity and financial security of a business.
  • DO have a good balance of yin and yang when decorating your workspace. Balance light and dark colors, soft and hard surfaces, and smooth and rough textures in your choice of window treatments, furniture, and flooring.
  • DON’T have any mirrors in your office, as they can reflect negative energy from clients to other people in the room. You should always maintain control over the energy in your office.
  • DO treat the files in your office with respect. They represent your past, present, and future business.
  • DO keep the cords to your office equipment well hidden. This elimates clutter and allows for the free flow of chi.

CMS WordPress Website Design & Why

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Freelance Website Designer cms11 300x189 CMS Wordpress Website Design & WhyAs a freelance website designer that likes to keep things simple and keep edits in the hands of my clients, it’s easy for me to recommend and use wordpress for all my clients. In this day in age when adding content and making changes to a website are so vital, I don’t see how any website designer would leave out such a crucial feature.

In the web design world, we call wordpress a CMS. A CMS is a content management system, and is vital to non-internet saavy clients that need to update their website on regular basis. Even if you dont need to update your site on a regular basis, you should, and here’s why: SEO.

CMS SEO, i know, all the abbreviations are a pain in the a$$, but they’re important to know if you’re gonna invest in a website. Search Engine Optimization is something, that even done on a small scale, shouldn’t be avoided. Search engines LOVE change. They send out “spiders” to visit your site, and create a screen shot of your websites look and code, and when it comes back to visit a month or so later, your code better have changed or it gets bored, and see’s your site as a static uninformative piece of html.

So what should you do? When getting a website designed, make sure your designer is creating it on top of a CMS, whether that be wordpress, joomla, or any other CMS that makes it easy for you to add content to it on a daily basis. Also, if you’re going to stay on top of things, ask for a blog also. It gives you a place to write and add content to your website so it’s ever changing. Then WRITE! Don’t let a blog just sit there and collect dust.

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Infusionsoft Services

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

Freelance Website Designer this guy 2 300x2941 Infusionsoft ServicesThe more i learn, the more I feel like i’m worthy enough to be a website designer. After doing some work for a Mesa, AZ based company who specializes in an InfusionSoft Membership Program, I decided to get my feet wet in regards to infusionsoft again, and see where it would take me, and now i’m hooked! I think everyone should have infusionsoft that is serious about email marketing. And if you want to make even more money with the email marketing, open a CustomerHub account as well and sell membership levels to your prospects. I think it’s genius..if you have something to offer, why not offer it. Oh and if you need a custom CustomerHub or InfusionSoft design, who has two thumbs and is a website designer? THIS GUY!  Freelance Website Designer icon biggrin Infusionsoft Services

Sept 11th

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Freelance Website Designer 9 11 01candlesimplelarge1 Sept 11thCan you believe it’s been 10 years? It’s insane that it’s been so long. I made sure to pay a visit to my mom and just took it easy. Everyone who suffered more than the average citizen was in my thoughts.

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