Blog Potions

We’ve found another blog publishing Web Development tutorials like the Blog Potions. Stylish Design is developed and being run by Robert and Andrei who have both been in the art and advertising industry for eight years. Together (and along with a team of well experienced writers) they share insight on the world of art, culture and design.

Stylish Design’s primarily features web design and web development tutorials with extreme focus on techniques for search engine optimization, web directories, softwares and tools, CSS styles, website templates among others. The blog has been successfully running since February 2008.

Visit their web designing blog at www.stylishdesign.com, where web design and style have met.

My Theory: We pay for education, we enroll in schools and universities not because we need teachers to teach us things and stack us with the right knowledge. Thing is, we never really needed them teachers. What we really needed is just someone, a curriculum, or a rule to guide us and keep us I focus with our studies. Because everyone is capable of learning things on their own, they really needed a curriculum to make us stay focused and prevent us from distractions so we could learn things in proper time and order.

Truth or not, it’s for each individual to decide. Opinions are by nature subjective.

A lot of my friends are asking how I learn web development from simple and static web pages to complex dynamic pages which are capable of user interactivity. Each time I got such questions, my response are all the same – I search the internet for some basic html lessons, looked at some interesting web sites and applied trial and error to create for myself a similar looking web page. Then I searched and applied and continued the processes and studied how to simplify complex and lengthy html codes by using dynamic scripts and other web development languages and techniques. The process has been quite long since I only started learning those things when I’m already working on a normal job so the study times were not as adequate as what I had when I was still a mediocre student.

Nowadays, in the age of modern technology, learning technical subjects (as web development) has never been so accessible. There already are hundreds of schools online which provides open learning where you could acquire technical studies without the hassle of going to schools everyday. They provide the curriculum, time frame for each course so you never need to worry about procrastination which is a huge pitfall when you’re self-studying subjects.

Kaplan Open Learning offers courses on Web Design and Business Degree Online among others.

If you’re an online merchant, a provider of online services or a plain offline store owner who has a website running, one great way to boost your sales is to have an online newsletter in a form of blog. Usually, websites have just static pages showing their portfolios and product galleries but with this kind of online presence, one reader gets bored because after the first visit, he though he has seen it all and decided not to return if he’ll won’t be needing any services at the moment. The problem with this is that after that visitor left (unless he has bookmarked the site or know the site owner personally) there is a wide tendency that he’ll forget the site in time. One way for to having high retention value is to have a regular update or at least give your visitors something relevant to see so they’ll keep coming back to your website.

One example of this is a Custom Web Design Services website which you could find here. They offer cheap web design solutions which they have described pretty well in their website. However, aside from the main site and pages, they also run a design blog which showcases simple tutorials on web development wherein they have featured articles on control of user accounts and membership on spyware community.

I am maintaining several domains under one hosting account with Dreamhost and I haven’t got any problem with that until yesterday.

As I start to browse one of my blogs, I got a “Forbidden Access” error on the index page. I checked my other blogs and the same error message shows. I thought it was only due to my browser or my current location that causes the error until some of my loyal readers informed me that they’re receiving the same error. I logged on to my hosting control panel to submit a ticket to my hosting provider when I noticed this flash notice on their site:

In a way, I felt relieved that there really was a known general server issue and not just something particular to my account (Read: Hacking!). Fortunately the problem only lasted a few minutes in the morning and another few minutes in the evening.

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