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The most important part of any website project is actually launching it. Here are a few tips for you (an owner of a website) to have a successful website launch.

You’ve just done a great job on a project for a client, and now they’ve decided not to pay you… now what? Unfortunately a lot of entrepreneurs have had to deal with the fact that sometimes clients just don’t pay.

High school is over, but we all still want to be thought of as “cool”, myself included. Why is that? Especially since the people in my high school that were considered cool happened to be total assholes.

So, you’ve hired someone (a professional) to design your website. The following are a set of helpful rules to keep in mind when asking for things during the web design process — ensuring you get the most return-per-visit. Whether it’s making you money, having your content read, having a quiz filled out, or whatever else your website’s goal relates to — these tips can help you have a better end product for your website.

The more I dive into figuring out what minimalism means to me, the more I see the connection between having less and being present. Less means fewer distractions and more focus (hopefully). Specifically, and what I mean to say by “distractions” in this instance, is notifications. Notifications are those little “popups” on your smart phone or computer when someone likes, @s, comments or shares something with you via social media or sends you an email.

I’ve worked for myself (full-time) for 12 years now, and have collected some thoughts on what makes my business continue to work.

I resolve to not buy anything in 2012, except for necessary consumables (like food, hygiene products, gas for my vehicle). What I instead want to spend my money (and more importantly my time) on is experiences — travel, connecting, interacting – basically I want to be doing more and buying less.

Unfortunately when you hire a web designer, they’ve worked on more web design projects than you. Here are some tips to bring you up to speed on the best way to work one on a project. Know that this is based on how I (as a web designer) work best with clients — it’s not a bad idea to ask the one you hire how they typically like to work with the following points.

One of the most common misconceptions about hiring someone to design and program your website is that there’s not much for you to do, except review mockups and say “take this website live!”. This just is not true.

I say “no” a lot to projects that come my way with my company and stick to pretty strict schedules for projects I do take on. I’ve spent the last 12 years running my company successfully by saying no strategically often.