Favorite Site For Web Freelance Workers Part 1 – Crowdspring
Posted by Blerz on
October 8, 2009
Crowdspring is a fantastic place for web freelance workers together, discuss issues in working from home, spec work pros and cons, and most importantly – get work! You can make a living doing spec work, if you use smart web applications like Crowdspring. Don’t rely on just freelancing, moving from gig to gig – get a simple process in place, and apply that process again and again to apply for as many web freelance Crowdspring assignments as possible. It doesn’t hurt to apply to a lot of them – so long as your quality of work is consistent and high!
Another way of looking at it is this: you can use Crowdspring as your own personal web design resource. Need a quick logo for a larger project, but don’t want to put in a ton of hours? Post the job to Crowdspring and have thousands of pro web designers and developers work on it for you! You can have single pages designed/coded, graphics created, logos (great logos at Crowdspring) – pretty much anything. Turn around is quick, you have people competing to do your work for you, and its not expensive! make sure you read the terms and conditions to make sure you can resell the items you commission on Crowdspring.
5 Development Tips I Wish I Knew 2 Years Ago
Posted by Blerz on
March 23, 2009
Inspired by this post, Ten Web Development Tips I Wish I’d Known Two Years Ago, from Hackification, I’m going to list 5 Development tips I wish I had learned earlier and better.
1. Learn the basics first:
I don’t have a degree in Computer Science – I’m a self-taught programmer and web developer. A lot of things I leanred from copy and paste programming – finding some good code that works, and implementing it. That’s fine for getting things done – but you can really limit yourself if you don’t understand why things work or how it works as well. Learning early on to cover the basics of programming will save you a lot of debugging time later on, I promise.
2. Read the Docs – Read them over once before you start, and then follow along while you code. This is especially true for API specifications.
a. Keep reading the docs. Some programming projects can go on for months – keeping checking the API docs for errata and changes. Especially web service API docs like Amazon, Twitter, Facebook. These can change often and drastically. You’ll save a lot of time making choices based on the future instead of back-tracking to fix things that used to work and suddenly stopped.
CrowdSpring announces new affiliate program – hot!
Posted by Blerz on
March 4, 2009
Normally I don’t post on Blerz about affiliate programs, but I do love crowdSPRING
– I think it’s a great service, and a great idea, and a new-ish way of using the web for design freelancing. So now Crowdspring has an affiliate program. I go there a lot for design inspiration and to watch 13,000+ designers compete for freelance contracts
crowdSPRING
also works for web business or website owners – it’s expensive to hire a full-time on staff designer – so why not Post your design project, name your price and watch 13,000+ designers submit ideas.
Welcome To Blerz.com – Build your own web company and empire a piece at a time with Blerz
Posted by Blerz on
December 17, 2008
Blerz.com is a new site to help people like you – beginner, novice, intermediate, or expert programmers who want to build up a web empire! We’re going to show you how, one piece at a time. Programming with PHP, Web Marketing, Social Networking, Web Design, we’re going to cover everything you need to know to build your Web portfolio and expand your knowledge pool.
