Inspired by the brilliant Cole Henley, I thought it would be a good idea to share what my monthly costs as a freelancer are.
Before you read this though, bare in mine I work from home, so I have no office I need to pay for. That’ll change soon though.
Hosting: $120 a month
I currently have three servers with Media Temple. One DV 3.5, one DV 4.0 and GS. Two are for hosting live sites, and the GS is for staging sites before they go over to the live environment. I only… Continue reading
Mr Michael Rose drew my avatar using the iPad app, Paper. It’s awesome! Take a look.
I spoke at my first conference in a year. I spoke about stuff we can do today in responsive web design. It was a blast. Here’s my slides, I also wrote about it.
I also spoke at a great monthly meetup in London called Geeky. I ranted for 2 minutes, not as planned, it should’ve been 10 minutes. I got some laughs though, for the right reason.
As ever, Gavin Elliot put on a great conference in… Continue reading
The little-known CMS & blogging platform, WordPress, has paid my bills for 4 years now. It’s the only open-source CMS I’ve ever used. In those 4 years, the amount of snippets I have in Kodery for it is just huge. Here, I want to share some cool ones that will probably help on a vast majority of sites with a completely bespoke theme.
‘Post’ to ‘Article’ in the back-end
Most of the blog-type themes I’ve built have been designed to replace an existing (usually bespoke) archaic CMS, where the editors refered to… Continue reading