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- Web Design Inspiration That You Can Hold In Your Hands
As a Professional Freelance Web Designer it is not uncommon for me to spend 10+ hours infront of my computer in a single day. Every day I lookup design/technology news, I design a website (or work on a website in progress), I spend a half hour on Qassia (a site for webmasters looking to promote their websites aswell as earn money) and I dedicate some time to planning my upcoming projects (Illicit Butterfly and the You and What Army Street Team).
At the end of the day I might have a look around for design inspiration and development insight, and often frequent the Web Designer Wall. This last activity can take up a lot of time without me realising it and after having spent 10+ hours on the computer already there are some days where I’m on the computer until I have to force myself to stop and walk away due to a headache.
What’s a girl to do? Well, after doing a little research using my favorite search engine, I subscribed to .Net Magazine and Web Designer Magazine.
- Apocalyptic Rave: The Newest Genre of Music
One of the newest genres of music to grace our ears is ‘Apocalyptic Rave’, a style of music that is definitely as unique as it’s name suggests. As genres of music become more specific as bands form and songs are released, it comes to the point where it becomes rather difficult to describe the music in mere words. ‘Apocalyptic Rave’ is simply something you have just got to hear.
The beginning of the ‘Apocalyptic Rave‘ phenomenon was started by English band, You and What Army; a quartet of four lads, one of which (the front-man) is often described as a ‘psychopath in a labcoat’. The band has received considerable attention after being featured on Channel 4’s MobileAct Unsigned late 2007, and as a result, You and What Army were voted one of the top 11 unsigned bands in the United Kingdom.
- Web Designers / Web Builders.. There is a Difference
It is often said that anyone can become a web designer but I don’t think that is true. To correct the statement I think it should be that anyone can build a website. To be a “Web Designer” on the other hand is a completely different thing.
- The Best Things in Life Are Free
When it comes to tracking your websites statistics - page views, unique visitors, traffic referrals and the like - you’ll find that the default tracking system that comes with your web host just won’t cut it. I’m looking at mine right now and it’s all over the place. According to the built in system, since the beginning of 2008, one of my websites has received 4,358 unique visitors over 130,905 visits and during that time 992,871 pages have been displayed.
As for where all these people came from.. I’m not really sure. The referring URLs are limited - if not non-existant - and in short, I don’t know how people found my website and what made them stay for over an hour, as 20% of the visitors do. It’s all well and good to display statistics and charts en masse and reel off boring information such as IP addresses (because of course I know where 88.208.16.48 is) and the fact that 90% of the visitors use an ‘unknown’ operating system (that helps me so much) but don’t you think there’s a limit on how much information is helpful?
