Building Your Own Social Network Site With WordPress Multi-User And BuddyPress Part 1 – Choose the Platform

Recently, I’ve created two social networks – both as experiments in creating them, and as opportunities to join communities of which I am very much a part of. The first is Fan made videos – I used to create a lot of Fan Made Videos for Youtube, for bands who didn’t have videos, or films [...]

Favorite Site For Web Freelance Workers Part 1 – Crowdspring

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 [...]

5 Development Tips I Wish I Knew 2 Years Ago

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 [...]

CrowdSpring announces new affiliate program – hot!

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+ [...]

Welcome To Blerz.com – Build your own web company and empire a piece at a time with Blerz

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 [...]

Get Tech Deals On Black Friday – Get That Profit Margin Up By Keeping Costs Low – Smart Shopping For Freelancers Filling up The Home Office

November 14th, 2009 Blerz

So you want to be a successful web freelancer – tyou will need an office. Working on the couch or the kitchen table is not going to suffice if you actually plan on getting some real work done. So now, you have to fill that office with computers, toys, productivity tools in electronic form, and so on. Good news! Black Friday, traditionally one of the best tech deal times in the whole year, is right around the corner.

Make a list and stick to it – and set a budget – patience is a virtue
This year, the best deals will be found on “low-end netbooks, 15- or 16-inch laptops, Blu-ray players, HDTVs of various sizes, external hard drives and name-brand LCD monitors.” according to Ginny Price of PCWorld Magazine.
There is however a downfall to this: bargains are usually only offered on cut-rate merchandise, or merchandise that hasn’t sold well, usually because they are that great of a product.
Black Friday are not the time to buy a new TV, wait until a few weeks before Christmas. Retailers will be putting out all their weakest selling merchandise out on Black Friday sales – Christmas is make or break season for most retailers – look for deals on everything at Christmas!

Do Research on the Web First
Ever heard of Cyber Monday? This is the Monday after Black friday – and e-retailers are looking for those people who didn’t find a good bargain on Black Friday but are still looking to spend on something – if only they could find a deal! Cyber Monday fills that niche – and shopping online is no longer the perilous journey it once was. Now shopping online is almost too easy. That’s also what they used to say about using credit bards, by the way – something to remember when you are happily shopping, ordering and spending all in one click.
To get an inside scoop on when these deals will hit stores, visit dedicated Web sites such as BlackFriday.info, GottaDeal.com, FatWallet.com and Dealnews.com.

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100 Useful Tools To Make Freelancing Easy and Profitable

October 29th, 2009 Blerz

To make money working from home as a freelancer, you need to have the right tools to do the job – tools that don’t get in the way, but help to streamline your creative process/work flow. Remember, even though you’re working for yourself, you should still be calculating your per/hour income – the benefits of working from home as a freelancer lose their shine pretty easily if you end up working for less than minimum wage! In that spirit, we present ou with these lists of useful webapps, web applications, desktop/air applications that are indispensable to freelancers working from home!

http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/51-web-apps-for-web-designers-and-developers/

http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/50-air-apps-and-browser-addons-for-web-designers-and-developers/

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Favorite Site For Web Freelance Workers Part 1 – Crowdspring

October 8th, 2009 Blerz


Need a logo? Try crowdSPRING!
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.

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What is Chrome OS – AKA the Google OS for Web Computing

July 8th, 2009 Blerz

Google OS - Chrome OS, the Google Operating System For Web Programming and ComputingWhat is Chrome OS? If you use the Google Chrome browser, you know that its targeted for those users (I myself am one) who do work, make notes, write blogs and do programming all on the web – in the cloud in other words, rather than on old style applications that reside on you computers hard drive. The newly announced Google Chrome Operating System promises to be the OS for working in the cloud – it is primarily aimed at netbooks, which depend on cloud computing for most if not all of their appeal.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Will you use Google Chrome? The answer for me is heck yeah! I think this is the technology that will finally remove us from being chained to our PCs – now computing will be netbook-to-smart-phone-back-to-netbook, and repeat as needed.

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