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Is Sitepoint’s Web Design Business Kit worth the money?

The Web Design Business Kit by Sitepoint is lauded to give great insights into how to run a web design business - its high price is due to the fact that it is a kit - as opposed to a book - and so it contains extras such as templates for contracts, letters etc. At a cost of £130 (at the current exchange rate) is it worth buying?

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Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP book review

Last month, I acquired a copy of Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A developer’s guide to SEO and set about reading it. I expected not to be shown too much information that I didn’t already know but, I did expect this book to be a timely catchup and a good resource.

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Dom Scripting by Jeremy Keith

In my time, I’ve read quite a few computing text books. On my degree course, I read lots of awful books on boring subject matter like 3D computer graphics and IT management strategies, and in my spare time I’ve read a lot of interesting books based around web design/development and all that entails. This book is my favourite so far. Read the rest of this entry »

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Recent work

A mini-update of recent work.

  • Financial web app for freelancers: Bean Counter
  • Ecommerce solution for a wine website

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