Picturing the Past 2, by Karen Barefoot
A picture’s worth a thousand words… or a thousand dollars, depending on whether or not you’re buying a stock photo for promotional use. These photos are expensive because you’re buying the right to use it anywhere you like, for your own profit. Stock photography can be expensive and …
Read MoreWeb hosts are a dime a dozen (or million). There are good ones, and there are many, many bad ones. Problem is, how do you figure out the difference? Search for “Web Host” (go ahead–I’ll wait…) and you’ll find more search results than you would ever want to click through. Visit any one of those and you’ll encounter a slew of foreign terms: uptime, bandwidth, reseller, control panel… the list could go on and on, especially if you’re not the most tech-savvy surfer on the block.
Read MoreOf all the communication problems in the designer/client relationship, one of the largest difficulties is knowing what you want and knowing how to tell that to someone else. Most people don’t know how to articulate their wants and needs. Take a look at all the books on relationships, on communication, heck—just take a look at the length of the self help aisle. People, in general, aren’t that good at telling others what they really want.
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