Staying sane

Posted: January 6th, 2009 | Author: jonathan | Filed under: business, curmudgeon, design, philosophy, rambling | 1 Comment »

Staying sane is important. Keeping calm under pressure is always preferable to going totally ape, even if you feel the situation warrants it. Read the rest of this entry »


How not to build an in-house CMS

Posted: November 17th, 2008 | Author: jonathan | Filed under: blogging, business, curmudgeon, development | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments »

It’s so easy to create a content managed website these days that it’s often equally easy to be paralysed by choice. This journal runs on WordPress, and uses a modified version of a theme by MidMo Web Design. It took all of 20 minutes from download to test-posting into this theme.

Picking the engine itself, though, has taken about 2 years, and was based on one thing: immediacy. Read the rest of this entry »


Pricing a freelance web development job using OmniPlan

Posted: November 10th, 2008 | Author: jonathan | Filed under: business | Tags: , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Picture 19.pngI like my prices to make sense. This usually means justifying the cost of a particular job by being able to demonstrate to the client the effort involved in a particular area. It’s also useful to know what particular features are expensive because they are difficult, and what ones are expensive because they’re valuable. Read the rest of this entry »