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What is the cloud?

Written by Jason Hanrahan | November 11th, 2011 | Add a comment

The Cloud

Just about anything these days that aims to demystify the misunderstandings of ambiguous internet terminology almost always starts with a wikipedia definition. So, who am I to go against the grain?

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).

- Wikipedia

So, what does it actually mean, and why You should care?
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Posted in business resources, cloud computing, the cloud

Your Website Should Work For You, Not Against You

Written by Jason Hanrahan | November 11th, 2011 | Add a comment

Your website should earn

If your spending a bunch of your budget on professional web development services, your website should do it’s job.

What is it’s job? It’s different for every business, but it usually boils down to getting you more clients. More clients = more revenue. And more revenue leads to a much better ROI for your web presence.

Your website needs to be a profit center…

Now, let’s take a step back for a moment. Just because your hired a web developer doesn’t exactly mean your site is going to work for you out of the box. It does require specific routine steps on your part as the business owner.

Think of your website as the hub of your web presence. Every thing from lead generation, social media strategy, SEO campaign, email marketing, ppc, and whatever else your using all lead here. Your website should be the Times Square of your web presence.

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Posted in business objectives, business resources, ROI

WordPress Permalinks 404 Error (Ubuntu)

Written by Jason Hanrahan | October 15th, 2011 | Add a comment

So, I just switched my hosting from 1and1.com to a Rackspace Cloud Server, which so far I am extremely satisfied. With this Cloud Server I now have total control over the development environment and that’s important to me.

Back to where I started… I created my new Ubuntu setup with a default LAMP stack. But I wanted to add this blog for several reasons. The wordpress install went smooth as ever, however once I changed the permalinks, the posts and pages defaulted to a 404 error. And thus I was stuck. The .htaccess file was properly setup and all file permissions were correct, but still couldn’t figure it out. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apache, Programing, ubuntu, virtualhost

Development Guidelines for Proper PSD to HTML (Part I)

Written by Jason Hanrahan | October 14th, 2011 | Add a comment
Tag names should make sense

If it doesn't make sense, or it's not spelled correct... change it!

Let me begin by saying this is not a How To post on creating an HTML page from a PSD. There are plenty of other really good sources and tutorials out there. This is simply a best practices guideline that I have been wanting to put together for some time now. In my day to day work, I often have to outsource certain jobs like PSD to HTML to contractors. It’s not that I don’t know how to do it, but more like, I shouldn’t have to do it. I focus more on writing heavy PHP framework based applications with database integration. So, needless to say my time is better spent programing rather than slicing a psd file. So if your a freelancer, contractor, just starting out, or whatever and you find yourself converting PSD’s to HTML… PLEASE USE THIS GUIDELINE! Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in development guide, Programing

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