Archive for November, 2008

Sign up to the Webbynode BETA!

This website is hosted on a shared server. When I started it was just what I needed: cheap, nothing to worry about etc etc. Though as time progresses and my skills grow, I feel the need for better control. A while back, I had a discussion over at the CodeIgniter forums about hosting etc and a lot of people mentioned VPS hosting. I didn’t know what it was about, but got curious and googled it. What did I learn? I wants.
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Promoting yourself as a Designer or a Developer

This post was written for the $11,000 Prize Giveaway at Just Creative Design

A while back I decided to set a standard signature in GMail. I got as far as “Bram Van der Sype” and I knew I wanted my URL in it too. But then I was stuck. Do I put webdesigner or webdeveloper below my name? I consider myself a webdesigner. I have designed all my websites myself (unless clients provided a design that only needed coding). I’ve never outsourced my designing. I like the feeling I get when I finally hit that design I like. I love to browse through dozens of blog posts, looking for inspiration and I love experimenting with photoshop.

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I have sold my soul to the devil

Don’t worry, I haven’t really. But as you’ll probably notice, there is now some ad-space under the search box. I’m not going to clutter the entire site with ads, do not worry, I’m merely trying to see if I can get any response on this. If I can, I might make a little buck out of selling ads and pay back my hosting costs that way.

To make up for this blight, I will try to write more posts and deliver better content.

If this doesn’t hit off, the ad space will, offcourse, disappear.