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Archive for December, 2009

This is something that so many of us find hard – pitching the cost correctly.

So it’s brilliant to see this anonymous survey at the web design blog, that asked designers to report on their charges.

At the time I read it, the average hourly rate was £34, with the following average charges:

simple static website  – £362

basic CMS site – £1,110

e-commerce site – £2,867

I have to say that, as someone who spends a lot of time working in the education sector, I don’t charge that much.  But there’s more to life than money and we all need to take job satisfaction and work-life balance into account.

At least, that’s what we must keep telling ourselves!

Just a brief post today to say, ” I love Windows 7″.

I enjoy using my computer again.  It’s fresh, it’s exciting, it makes that awful nightmare memory of vista go away.

If you haven’t got it yet, then do your research, check your pc will run it, look for a good deal, and go for it.

My one regret is that I didn’t get that family pack for 3 pc’s in time.

But DO look for deals and promotions – Microsoft has quite a few out there.  Look for academic pricing, public sector employee schemes and the home user programme.  If you find agood deal, let me know and I’ll share it.

Thanks, as ever, for taking the time.

I’m proud to announce that Nikki Racey’s site has been successfully transferred to a new web host.  I originally built Nikki’s site some time ago, and many people have been kind enough to say how much they liked it.

Here’s a link: Visit Nikki’s site.

But in those days I was using a cheap host, over in the US and I’ve learned that in web hosting, like so much else, you get what you pay for.  So I transferred to a UK host,  hoping to achieve reliability and prompt support (of course there’s a time difference with US companies).

At first I tried UK2 – a mistake and a costly one at that.  They were unreliable, their support wasn’t even mediocre and I ended up paying just to transfer some domains away from them.  A stressful experience.

And then I found TSO.  What a relief.  TSO are not expensive and yet their service is superb.  One time, whilst I was trying to transfer a domain name that was still tied up at UK2, TSO even gave me a refund, although they were in no way to blame – how often do you get service like that?

I’ll just point out that I am not affiliated with TSO – I don’t think they even have an affiliate scheme.  They are a small company who take pride in what they do.

I’m just a very satisfied customer, so here’s a link to their site:

Visit TSO Web Hosting.